Author: Lars Bremer
Date: 08:52:19 09/23/05
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On September 23, 2005 at 11:34:55, Joshua Shriver wrote: >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 Did you measure the nps of the chess programs? Crafty for instance exists for Windows as well as for Linux. I use VMWare (www.vmware.com); it slows down i.e. the Shredder engine less then 10%, what means if you run Shredder in a virtual windows machine under Linux, your 3 GHz computer is as fast as one with 2,7 GHz. But VMWare costs money. A free emulator is qemu (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/), but I've never tried. Maybe somebody here can measure how fast a chessprogram runs under Windows in qemu. Lars
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