Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 11:50:25 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. I agree. >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 don't forget Fruit! A good chess GUI for Mac OS is still missing, though. Tord
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