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Subject: Re: Fruit on PPC

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 10:22:20 09/01/05

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On September 01, 2005 at 12:57:51, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On September 01, 2005 at 12:30:19, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>I have found Fruit on a PPC to be the most entertaing chess program ever to
>>play.  On a PPC, it has a tendency to overlook little traps  I set and falls
>>right into them -- just like a human!  Makes for entertaining ( but perhaps not
>>great) chess.  ALso, it tends to forget about castling once taken out of book
>>(again on a PPC) - so it allows neat sacs to get the attack going.
>>
>>Note - This is not great chess -- I'm only 1600 or so -- but when Fruit is
>>allowed only one second per move, I have a decent chance at winning.
>>
>>Most interesting agmes to be posted later tonight.
>>
>>
>>Note _- all other PDA chess programs tend not have the problems shown by Fruit -
>>but I'm not complaining -- it makes it great fun.
>
>I would prefer if the people would not refer PDAs with PPC.
>Fruit runs normal on all Macs I tried and they all run on PPCs. It sure runs
>great on PPC G4 and G5.
>So the title is misleading and should be "Fruit on PocketPC" or something.
>
>regards
>Andy

That may be your preference - but it's not in touch with "google" reality as
seen by google.

seach ppc mag on google and it's all about pda's and not mac...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&q=PPC+Mag&sa=N&tab=nw

Best,

Michael



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