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Subject: Re: OS X PPC Engine anyone?

Author: William Bryant

Date: 06:51:03 06/19/04

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On June 17, 2004 at 23:48:43, Joshua Shriver wrote:

There are a number of engines out there.

My engine is sadly out of date but runs well on PPC (Screamer II build 5 or 6)
The latest version is downloadable on the ExaChess site.

If you can't find it I'll emil it to you.

Unfortunatley, I am deveeloping on a G4 laptop at 500mhz with a 100 mhz bus.

I am rewritting my from scratch.  The goal is to free up some funds and get a
new Duel G5 2.5 ghz machine.

William

>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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