Author: Mark Uniacke
Date: 05:18:20 12/03/98
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On December 02, 1998 at 14:37:49, Torstein Hall wrote: >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 ). No, there are no plans. > >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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