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Subject: Re: Virtual PC, MaC OS, and chess programs

Author: George Sobala

Date: 11:37:33 07/08/04

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On July 08, 2004 at 14:29:30, George Sobala wrote:

>On July 08, 2004 at 14:05:06, Gerald Grimsley wrote:
>
>>Hello, I am thinking of buying an Apple Laptop, and would like to run a windows
>>environment for some of the chess programs.  Does anyone have any experience
>>doing this, problems, bugs, etc.?
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Gerald
>
>Yes. I had (indeed still have, but the past tense seems more appropriate here)
>Virtual PC 5. It stopped working properly when Mac OSX went up to 10.2 and still
>doesn't work properly under 10.3. (Virtual disk errors - either virtual errors
>on the disk or errors on the virtual disk, who knows?)
>
>Even if it does work you are looking at the chess performance of approximately a
>Pentium 200MHz. I am sure that Hiarcs on my Palm T3 is better than this.
>
>Forget it.
>
>Plead and beg Mark Uniacke and Christophe Theron to port Hiarcs and Tiger to OSX
>to join Crafty, Ruffian and Deep Sjeng. Oh, and there's Gothmog.

... and I almost forgot,  ChessMaster 9000 supposedly soon



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