Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 11:37:49 12/02/98
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On December 02, 1998 at 07:24:33, Mark Uniacke wrote: >On December 02, 1998 at 01:05:14, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>If I have understood right Hiarcs still needs special X-mode boot to big >>hash tables. So there's 2 questions: >> >>1) Why does it need X-mode - other DOS programs as Rebel, Mchess work fine >>with any memory manager? Can't You change compiler or... > >Hiarcs is a 16 bit appl. obviously running in real mode. I do not use a DOS >extender and there are a lot of interrupt routines which would need updating >were I to go the protected mode route. >I could have made it compatible with humem.sys but I simply did'nt have time >to do so and update the chess strength. I had to make a choice and I chose >to play with the chess engine instead. Is there any plans about making a Hiarcs 7 CB engine? If that where the case or there was a Windows version I would consider buying the program ( or the engine ). Torstein >On a positive note I expect this to be the last release which does not have >an alternative method of accessing extended memory. > >> >>2) Is it 100 % sure, that X-mode is working with all new motherboard, CPU, RAM >>combinations? > >Nothing in this world is 100% sure when it comes to the future. All beta >testing showed no problems whatsoever. Testing included PII450s with 256Mb RAM, >K6-300, K6-2, Pentium, PPro, Pent MMX, 486, 386, PII Xeon. > >Best wishes, > Mark
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