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Subject: Re: Scatha 0.2.3 released

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 00:04:13 04/30/05

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On April 29, 2005 at 18:56:44, Tord Romstad wrote:

>Version 0.2.3 of Scatha, my hexagonal chess program for Mac OS X,
>is now available for download:
>
>http://www.math.uio.no/~romstad/glaurung/glaurung.html
>
>This is probably the last version of Scatha which will run in
>Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther). A binary for the new Mac OS X 10.4
>(Tiger) will probably be ready within a few days.

Is there any advantage to making the executable OSX 10.4 specific?  I don't
think any of the 10.4 API additions are critical for a typical chess program.
After all, there are plenty of OSX 10.[012] binaries that run fine under 10.3
(Panther).

Trivia:

10.0 Cheetah (some say Lion was the in-house pre-release name))
10.1 Puma
10.2 Jaguar
10.3 Panther
10.4 Tiger
10.[567] (Cougar, Leopard, and Lynx have all been registered by Apple as
trademarks)

There are only 38 species (one [Smilodon fatalis/sabretooth] extinct) in the
Felidae family, so Apple's current naming scheme won't go on indefinitely.
Felis catus, the housecat (I have two of these) is one possibility, but I doubt
Apple will use it.




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