Author: Terry Giles
Date: 11:54:32 08/13/04
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On August 13, 2004 at 14:17:19, Frederic Louguet wrote: >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. Hi Frederic, Here's a link to a web site containing a chess program called "Kangaru" which is written in PowerBasic. I'm sure the author (Thomas McBurney) would be only too pleased to help you regarding your questions. Terry Giles
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