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Subject: Re: ARM version of Chess Tiger for Palm? YES

Author: Werner Schuele

Date: 09:50:13 07/03/03

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Hi Christophe,
thats fine to hear, I am waiting since January fot the native arm version of
chesstiger to run on my sony nx70v :-)
Werner

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



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