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Subject: Re: If hiarcs can port to mac ... what can users do to help this happen?

Author: Richard A. Fowell

Date: 22:27:15 01/07/05

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On January 07, 2005 at 22:06:46, ERIQ wrote:

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>>So - what can you do to help change this situation?
>
>  I can Let all programmers know that it would be more profitable to just make
>engine as xboard and uci for all three major platforms winblows, palm, unix-like
>systems (freebsd,linux and apple) and then distibute it themselfs via a webpage
>keeping most of the profits. I for one would find no problem buying an engine
>for $30 directly from an authors webpage and then downloading my favorite free
>gui to play it with. What is so hard about this? I am sure they are not making
>$30 an engine at the moment!
>>-Richard

That model might work - we'll find out soon enough.

Certainly, for the Macintosh, the UCI/Winboard support seems to be falling into
place,
and more UCI engines are becoming available.

-Richard



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