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Subject: Re: Looking for an "Experienced" PPC programer - possible $200 reward

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 19:55:22 09/15/04

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On September 15, 2004 at 21:35:46, Mike Byrne wrote:

>Pay == nothing but blood, sweat and tears and a sense of accomplishment when it
>is all done!  You will get full credit in the readme.txt ;>)
>
>Project - to bring the latest Crafty SE source (with much thanks to Bob Hyatt)
>to the pocket PC highly optimized in a nice GUI - free of bugs.  The final
>product will be FREE to all.
>
>What I offer - Crafty SE Source and CD with Microsoft's latest PPC 2003
>development tools.  It is availaable for free directly from MSFT, but it is
>about 500MB and my CD may make things a little easier for you to install.
>
>The goal to have all SE personalities, time controls and most Crafty.rc options
>to be selectable from the GUI.
>
>If you are successful and provide me with a means to update Pocket Crafty source
>easily so I can provide free updates with each Crafty version released - there
>is  a $200 bonus at the end.  But it must pass my bug free test - no crashes and
>hangups and it mirrors big "Crafty SE".  The bug free test will be conducted by
>all beta users and if 4/5 of the beta testers say it is a go - you pass the test
>and get $200.
>
>I'm not looking for internet play -- just for a user to play chess, analyse
>positions, read pgn files (basic - variations not neccesary) and save pgn files.
>
>There is a version of Pocket Crafty that is out there now- but it is very buggy
>and needs help.  I can get this version to work and it shows great promise - an
>optimized Crafty may be stronger than Chess Genius on a PPC with stength perhaps
>over 2500.  That source is available.
>
>Email me privately with your credentials if interested,  I will entertain joint
>collaborators if all sides agree to spread the workload. The $200 bonus would
>have to be split in that scenario.

Why not the Palm Pilot too? I'd like to have it running on my
Treo 600 the way Chess Genius does (nicely too -- beam moves to
another player on his Palm Pilot.)



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