Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:47:16 07/03/03
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On July 03, 2003 at 04:32:07, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>On July 03, 2003 at 01:47:16, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On July 03, 2003 at 00:55:15, Keith Evans wrote:
>>
>>>On July 02, 2003 at 22:09:53, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 02, 2003 at 16:25:47, Michael Conway wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>To take advantage of the new ARM Palms running OS 5, many software developers
>>>>>have programmed native ARM code (ARMlets) to replace their calculation-intensive
>>>>>Motorolla 68k (OS 4) functions. As this circumvents the Palm 68k interpreter
>>>>>(PACE) built into OS 5, performance increases in ARM processor Palms have been
>>>>>enormous.
>>>>>
>>>>>Are there plans to upgrade Chess Tiger for Palm in this manner? Would it be
>>>>>very difficult to do?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Yes, and I'm working on it.
>>>>
>>>>Yes, it is difficult to do. ARMlets are toys, not real programs. For example you
>>>>cannot have global variables in ARMlets.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Christophe
>>>
>>>You can have global variables on Gameboy. Any chance of Tiger on Gameboy?
>>>(There's already SmarThink on Gameboy - see "Ultimate Brain Games")
>>
>>
>>
>>Chess Tiger for PalmOS native ARM code first. Then we will see.
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>Chrsitophe, I am some what saddened with your priorities. It seems as though
>your interest on further improvement in Tiger 16 for example is in the side
>pocked. Your living depends on your programming I think and I guess the path
>your taking takes this into consideration.
>Tiger 14 is my favourite program (not the strongest). I am a lil slow in buying
>new versions of any of latest programs opting to wait and see attitude from
>those who test current versions.
>It seemed to me that Tiger15 did not improve enough over Tiger14, so I still am
>on the side lines.
>With respect of course
>Wayne
I don't understand why you say that I'm not interested in improving Chess Tiger
to produce a version 16.
Why do you think I'm not working on version 16?
Version 15 has been published just a few months ago. Are you expecting a new
version or reports of a new version every three months?
As for the progress between version 14 and version 15, all depends on the amount
of work you invest in testing. While it is easy to get the impression that an
already strong chess program has not made progress, Chess Tiger 15 is definitely
clearly superior to version 14. I have measured this improvement and it is above
what the SSDF has found out.
It is true that making progress becomes harder and harder as the program
improves, but I'm still making progress and when Tiger 15 was delivered it was a
clear improvement over version 14. Actually I did not release version 15 until I
was sure that it was clearly better than version 14.
I am working on Chess Tiger 16. From time to time I also produce a PalmOS update
(last one was 6 months ago).
Work is progressing normally... Chess Tiger 16 is in the pipeline.
Christophe
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