Author: Joshua Shriver
Date: 08:34:55 09/23/05
I was tinkering around with my box last night trying to get Warcraft II to play under wine. After looking around my archives I came across a windows version of crafty so I thought (why not) chmod +x crafty.exe and it works. Not only does it run well, it also runs via the native xboard and eboard. This seems to apply to any xboard/winboard engine. I've tested fruit21.exe, crafty.exe, sjeng, and phalanx. Just chmod +x engine.exe xboard -size small -fcp ./engine.exe and voila it works :) Keep in mind you need wine installed. I also didn't notice any lag since WINE isn't and emulator but a translation program (everything works natively except system calls which are converted) Hope this helps someone else out, for me it's been a dream come true. There's a lot of nice engines that are only released in binary form for windows. I'm going to try zappa 1.1 once I find it, and every other engine I can grab :) -Josh
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