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Subject: Re: Running Windows engines under Linux + xboard howto :) works

Author: Tom Likens

Date: 12:23:00 09/23/05

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On September 23, 2005 at 14:19:03, Joshua Shriver wrote:

Josh,

Thanks for the info.  I'm not sure where the latest version of Zappa is
available.  You might try Leo's excellent WBEC site (he has a dropdown
download menu that has most a link to most freely available engines).

regards,
--tom


>Good Afternoon,
>
>    I've tested this on 2 machines, both 32 bit Celeron 700mhz and 1ghz
>machines, yes I need to upgrade ;) Running Debian Linux 3.1Ra, with
>linux-2.6.11.6 kernel.
>
>The version of wine I use is "Wine 20050310" which is the stable version within
>the latest Debian. I just did "apt-get install wine".
>
>I'm using "fake-windows" and not an installed windows partition, so windows
>really isn't needed at all.
>
>Both machines have 512megs SDRAM.
>
>If you wanted to play the engines from the shell you can run "wineconsole
>engine.exe" to play. Though if you chmod +x it you can just ./engine.exe to run.
>
>By chance know where to get the open sourced version of Zappa? If not I'll
>search the archives back a week or so, remember seeing a link.
>
>Take care,
>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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