Author: Frederic Louguet
Date: 11:17:19 08/13/04
A long time ago, I used the PowerBasic language (www.powerbasic.com) to develop a few programs (not chess-related) and found it extremely impressive. For chess of course I used C because at the time it produced the fastest executable code. Now I wonder if the most recent version of PowerBasic (PBCC 3.04) is fast enough for chess programming ? It has an inline assembler, multithreading, macros... Of course I can try for myself but before, I would like to hear from other people who have already some opinions on this subject. Has anyone some experience with chess programming in PowerBasic ? In floating-point and string manipulation it seems very fast, however I would like to know how it compares to C for chess, speedwise. I believe a strong checkers program (Wyllie) is written in PowerBasic. Is there any source code available somewhere which shows winboard interfacing in PB ? Thanks.
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