Author: Tom Likens
Date: 10:23:20 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 Thanks Josh, This is interesting to say the least. I do *ALL* my development in Linux and then release both a Linux and a Windows version. By far, the Linux version gets the most testing--but using this method, I could test the Windows version almost exclusively when planning a release. This would be a huge win for me! And as you say it would extend the number of potential opponents to test against the engine. One quick question, you mentioned that you have Wine installed--what are the other particulars of your setup? For example, which version of Linux are you running, are you using a 2.4.6 kernel, is your system 32-bit or 64-bit sytem, which processor (Intel or AMD) etc. etc. I'll definitely give this a try this weekend. regards, --tom
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