Author: Daniel Mehrmannn
Date: 09:55:24 06/11/05
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On June 11, 2005 at 07:49:48, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >As announced last week the Macs will move to the Intel processor in the next 2 >years. >Does the change of the cpu and the availability of an IntelC/C++ compiler for >Mac OS X simplify porting chess programs to the Mac? Will we see more engines >coming to the Mac platform? > >I guess Stefan is also porting the Shredder Classic Interface to OS X, which >would mean the major part of his work was not in vain once the transition to >Intel cpus is finished. > >Congrats to Shredder >Andy Well, for me i can say, its not difficult to port a chessprogram from x86 to MAC OS X if the programmer only use ansi c stuff and no special windows or others plattform sdk stuff. At least i needed two hours for my engine to make it running on a G5 iBook with MAC OS 10.3. And this was really my first contact with a Apple. Now i like Apple ;) daniel
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