Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:24:52 10/18/05
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On October 18, 2005 at 15:10:36, Mark R. Anderson wrote: >CCC Friends, > >I have heard that Toga is a Fruit clone. I presume this was done with the >permission of the author, when Fruit was a free engine. So, what is the >difference in style and capabilities between Fruit and Toga? Is Toga a >"tweaked" Fruit, like Uri's Fruit version? > >What makes Toga separate from Fruit? I know from experience that Toga is a good >and strong engine, but the engine it was based on, Fruit, is really a top >engine, so one would expect that. So, I am wondering, why should I have Toga on >my hard drive, if I have a much improved version of the engine it was derived >from (Fruit 2.2). I mean no disrespect to the creator of Toga ... I am just >curious. I have Hiarcs 9, 8, 7, etc, and also Fritz 8, 7, 6, 5, but I only >tend to really play and analyze with the latest versions. So, what has Toga got >that Fruit doesn't? Does it have a different playing style, or is it just >perhaps Fruit 2.1+? > >Thanks for any comments or insight. The license of Fruit 2.1 and earlier clearly allowed GPL modifications of the source code. Hence, there is no problem with the existance of "clones" as long as they publish the modified source code. Thomas Gaksch has made some small changes to the source code that result in different play. From the data I have seen, Toga II 1.0 is stronger than Fruit 2.1 but not as strong as Fruit 2.2. At any rate, it will play a bit differently than Fruit does. If you want to know exactly what has been changed, you can do diffs on the source trees. I believe that Mr. Gaksch has also added one new file.
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