Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:17:07 11/07/98
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On November 07, 1998 at 10:07:32, Tord Romstad wrote:
>On November 06, 1998 at 18:55:09, Mark Uniacke wrote:
>
>>
>>On November 06, 1998 at 16:33:22, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>>
>>>are there any plans to release h7 as a 32 bit chessbase engine compatible with
>>>F5.32/junior 5?
>>>
>>>rajen Gupta
>>
>>No, there are no plans. Hiarcs 7.0 remains a 16 bit application for this
>>release.
>>I do intend on converting the Hiarcs architecture to 32bit after this release.
>>I did some experiments earlier this year compiling Hiarcs as a console
>>application
>>under Windows95 using Visual C++ v5.0 and got about a 20% speed up at the time.
>>However, GUI issues precluded me going with the 32bit app at this time and
>> I managed to squeeze even more out of the 16 bit app in the end.
>
>Personally I find the GUI to be the least important part of a chess program.
>I would prefer having a text-only 32bit version of Hiarcs 7 rather than a
>16bit MS-DOS version with a GUI. How about releasing a text-mode win32
>version (a linux version would of course be even better :-) on the same
>CD-ROM as the DOS version?
>
>Tord
Well, I'd like to be able to use it with CB7 as an aid in analysis peronally,
though in the end, I must say that it is above all as an opponent that I value
Hiarcs.
Albert Silver
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