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Subject: Re: OS X PPC Engine anyone?

Author: Joshua Shriver

Date: 01:15:11 06/18/04

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While the OS <=9 era is kinda in the past I'd love to check out your engine..
I dont care of it's strength... I love chess, and would be honored to check it
out.

Is it commercial? Freeware? Shareware?
If you have a copy still let me know, or if it's free email a .sit or whatever
you want to my email address
jshriver@csee.wvu.edu

I'd love to check it out :)
If it is or was commercial let me know how much, if I can swing the money I'll
try and get a copy :)

I've been optimizing crafty for about a year now... and as I've started on my
own engine I've been doing assembly PPC G4 optimization in it already (just
about a month or so). I'm hoping that when I start fully testing and perhaps
releasing my engine... it'll have full backing for PPC G4 (perhaps G5 especially
with Building 31 backing *thanks Johan* support) as well as Opteron and x86
support.

Write now all the bulk of my code is in C... I have more knowledge in x86 asm,
but learning PPC as well, and since PPC is all I have to work with, that's the
only assembler I can use) However thank goodnesss for Virtual PC :) Might now be
able to do asm x86 cores in it... at least regular x86... greatly hoping to get
an Opteron within the next 6 nmonths... all depends on how much money I can save
from fast food, after I pay tuition....anyway I really love chess development..
and being a low-level programmer... I hope to create the infrastructure of my
engine in C with parallization as it's core, and have tight well designed
assembly cores for PPC/Opteron.

hehe, still planning on attending WCCC 2005 :) already have a sponcer. :)

Sincerely,
Joshua Shriver



On June 18, 2004 at 01:23:31, Ed Trice wrote:

>Well, I wrote "The Sniper" in Pascal way back in 1987 that ran on my 16 MHz
>Macintosh SE. That's 16 Mhz, not missing a 0 after the 16 :)
>
>I had to endure Dr. Hans Berliner calling it "Low Tech" as I sat beside him in
>HiTech's last appearance in tournament play.
>
>I find myself a dinosaur now in the Mac OS X world, but I am working to change
>all of that. I have some new pieces done and will be making a Mac OS X release,
>with some of Tord's help, at some point by this fall.
>
>http://www.GothicChess.org/new_vortex.jpg
>
>...are the new graphics for the Gothic Chess board, but I may use them and do a
>Mac OS X port of Crafty if Dr. Hyatt would not be opposed to the idea.
>
>--Ed
>
>>Are there any engines written specifically for the PPC arch, and run under OS X?
>>
>>While I know many engines are portable to OS X via gcc, I haven't come across
>>any that really use the PPC specific platform.
>>
>>Would be interesting to see, especially since the G5 came out.
>>The G5 might not be an opteron, but I would place a G5 over a Pentium or
>>non-Opteron anyday.
>>
>>Just curious, comments and flames are welcome.
>>Have a nice day.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>Joshua Shriver



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