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Subject: Re: Fruit 2.2 vs Toga II

Author: Majd Al-Ansari

Date: 15:02:26 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.
>
>Mark Anderson



I was under the impression that Toga was just a different compilation of Fruit
2.1 which made it run faster thus giving a little more strength.



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