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Subject: Re: Any friendly Mac OS X 10.4 users out there?

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 11:04:42 10/27/05

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Hi Tord. I'm a Mac user and I read this forum daily. I never heard of a GUI for
Glaurung, and I also can't find a GUI on the page you specify, except for
hexagonal Chess, which I'm not interested in.
Please enlighten me were I can find the GUI for Glauerung and "classical" Chess.

regards
Andy


On October 27, 2005 at 13:00:04, Tord Romstad wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>As some of you may know, I am the author of a chess GUI for
>Mac OS X.  A couple of days ago, I was shocked to receive an
>email telling me that my program didn't work at all on Macs
>without OpenMCL installed (which probably means that I am
>the only Mac user who has ever been able to use my GUI).
>
>Even more depressing than the problem itself is the fact that
>I was happily unaware of it until Tuesday this week.  The program
>has been available for download for several months, but not a
>single user has complained that it didn't work.  The interest for
>Macintosh chess GUIs must be even smaller than I expected.
>:-(
>
>Anyway, I have now attempted to fix this problem, and it seems
>to work.  Even when I delete OpenMCL from my hard disk, the
>program continues to work correctly.
>
>However, I would very much appreciate if somebody else
>could confirm that the program finally works on their
>computer.  I don't have much hope that it will work in
>OS X 10.3 or earlier versions (but feel free to try!), but
>I think it should run on all Macs running 10.4.x.
>
>If you have problems, please open Console.app and look
>for warnings or error messages there, and send them to
>me along with information about what type of Mac and which
>OS version you are running.
>
>The GUI can be found at http://www.glaurungchess.com
>
>Tord



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