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Subject: backporting x86 chessprogram to MAC OS X

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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