Author: Richard A. Fowell
Date: 23:43:29 01/06/05
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On January 07, 2005 at 01:42:15, ERIQ wrote: Well, first - others have. The King, Ruffian, GnuChess, Deep Sjeng, Crafty, and Fruit run on the Mac. The King, Ruffian and GNUChess are on the Mac as standalone programs (Chessmaster 9000, Kasparov Chessmate and Big Bang Chess). >I think some programmers are just getting lazy. It is more a matter of motivation - given the greater market for PCs than Macs, there's more reward in putting the code on the PC. Porting a full program (GUI and all) is a big project - when Chessmaster 9000 was ported to the Mac this year, it took six months longer than originally announced. It is a smaller project to port the engine, but not the GUI, as a UCI/Winboard engine, and let some other program, such as jose, serve as the GUI. That is what HIARCS is doing (per http://www.sigmachess.com/Hiarcs/sigmahiarcs.html). This has already been done by others: Ruffian, Deep Sjeng and Fruit have been ported to the Mac as UCI engines. (http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?403853) (Glaurung and Gothmog do as well, but they are developed on the Mac, not ported to it) There are some Winboard engines that run on the Mac, such as Crafty. -Richard
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