Author: ERIQ
Date: 06:02:39 01/07/05
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On January 07, 2005 at 08:52:05, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On January 07, 2005 at 01:42:15, ERIQ wrote: > >>I think some programmers are just getting lazy. > >For engine you need a 1000+ copies sold a year to make a living. > >Selling engine without GUI is not realistic i learned the hard way. People only >get mad then. I can assure you that. > >However if someone is prepared to pay me 125 copies of diep, i can deliver a >single diep binary for each platform: g4 and g5 and os/x (xboard/winboard >compatible) and the person in question then can try to sell that as much as he >wants to for the mac and can keep all the profit he makes (it is impossible to >check sales anyway). In fact diep will be one of the few working parallel at the >g5. OS/x might have not such best multithreading support (no kernel threads), >though i didn't check it out 100%. Yet DIEP is multiprocessor so no problems at >the dual G5 there. > >The G5 processor is relative slow for integer software in general, but for DIEP >it's a fine processor. > >Vincent Do you really believe that someone would buy you product at that sum of money over hiarcs 9.6 (mac),for less than $50 bucks. I understand that you need money but please be realistic.
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