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Subject: Re: Message for Andreas Guettinger (Ruffian and Mac OSX) ...

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 10:29:14 11/24/03

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On November 24, 2003 at 08:46:16, Alastair Scott wrote:

>On November 24, 2003 at 06:21:59, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>If somebody else thinks such a GUI could be nice to have, please let
>>me know, and I will perhaps move it up a few places on my priority list.
>
>On two general principles ... yes!
>
>- there is a lot of work to be done in GUIs generally;

This may be true, but I doubt that my GUI will be among the most advanced
or feature-packed.  It will probably be very basic compared to Arena.  I'll
probably release the source code under the GPL in the (probably vain) hope
that somebody else will contribute code for more advanced features.

>- a hole should be filled as historically, there has never been enough Mac chess
>software (at the moment, there is just about one of everything which works).

Yes.  For me, this is the only major problem with MacOS.  MacOS does
everything else I want to do as well or better than all other platforms,
but I really miss all the chess software available for Windows.

I hope that more engine authors will port their engines to OSX if/when
there is a nice GUI available.

>I would like to buy an iBook some day :)

The latest iBooks are quite cool machines.  I'll probably buy one myself
in a year or two, when my PowerBook G4 550MHz begins to feel unbearably
slow.

Tord



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