Author: Anton Worsman
Date: 13:35:56 09/23/05
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On September 23, 2005 at 15:23:00, Tom Likens wrote: >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 a few months ago i did some testing of my chess engine, compiled in debian linux with gcc, i then ran the same benchmark using 'wine', combined with a version i had built in windows with mingw (using the same optimizations). to my surprise, i found the version compiled in mingw, and running with wine, was roughly 10% faster than the binary built in linux. your post has made me curious, i now am running slackware 10.2 (without wine). is it possible to run winboard + winboard.ini using wine?? thus run all the engines and tournaments i used to run under windows, as i have allways preferred using winboard to xboard. has anyone tried this? regards, anton.
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