Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:40:16 10/21/99
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On October 21, 1999 at 06:51:30, Tord Romstad wrote:
>On October 20, 1999 at 21:21:21, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On October 20, 1999 at 20:19:35, Robert Pawlak wrote:
>>
>>>Actually, there are some early psts from about a week ago that detailed the
>>>results of my wine tests.
>>>
>>>The short form:
>>>
>>>Most chessbase products: no
>>>cblight: almost, but crashes when engine launched
>>>chess assistant: no to all
>>>genius 4: yes
>>>genius 6: no
>>>
>>>Bob P.
>>
>>Is there better success with MS-DOS programs?
>
>I have never tried to run any MS-DOS programs using wine, but most of them
>seem to work with Dosemu. MChess, Genius 3, Genius 5/DOS and Fritz 3 all
>work (although MChess is the only program which is able to use big hash
>tables). Unfortunately, Rebel and Hiarcs 5 do not work. I believe that
>Hiarcs 7 should work, the problem in Hiarcs 5 seems to be the copy protection
>scheme.
>
>>I have a version of Chess Tiger compiled with GnuC under DOS, with GnuC DOS 32
>>bits extender. Any chance that this Tiger runs under Linux using a DOS emulator?
>
>It is possible, yes. It is hard to know without trying... But if your
>program is compiled with GnuC, why don't you simply recompile using gcc for
>Linux? Porting a GnuC program to Linux is usually trivial (you probably
>don't need to change a single line of code).
>
>Is there any hope we will see a Linux version of Chess Tiger? :-)
>
>Tord
I'm very busy at this time, but as soon as I have some free time my goal is to
install Linux on one of my computers and to try it seriously.
I am soooo tired of this Windows shit, DLLs trying to fuck each other,
applications trying to fuck the DLLs, rebooting between 10 to 20 times a day,
system crashes when you install a new application, Internet Explorer trying to
slip into the system even if I don't want it and I prefer to use Netscape,
Microsoft preparing a new version that will be twice as big, twice more bugs,
and forcing everybody to throw out their PII-400 computers because the new
Windows will be too slow on these, and so on...
I can't take it anymore. I used OS/2 Warp for a while (it was back in '95) and
was not satisfyied with it, so I'm glad that people say Linux is a good
alternative against Windows.
I have heard that Linux is not as easy to use as Windows, but a friend of mine
recently installed it (Mandrake 6.0) and told me it was very easy, running
faster than Windows and he never has to reboot anymore. Anyway, do you really
think the average Joe is able to install and use Windows without the help of a
qualified technician?
I have read recently that many DOS anf Windows program run on Linux, so you
don't have to threw away all your program library. That's a good move!
As soon as I have Linux installed, it is clear that I'll have a version of Tiger
running on it very quickly. The main worry for me is: is it possible to
distribute commercial programs for Linux. This is a stupid question maybe, but
is still not clear for me. At least I know that I cannot distribute a program
compiled with GnuC without distributing the sources too. So it's clear I'll not
use GnuC for a commercial version.
Christophe
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