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

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 19:57:55 09/15/04

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On September 15, 2004 at 22:55:22, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>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.)

I'm all for it -- after we get the PPC version done first :).



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