Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:17:21 11/01/99
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On October 31, 1999 at 16:05:34, Fernando Villegas wrote: >On October 30, 1999 at 09:44:39, Robert Pawlak wrote: > >>I've put an article up on my web page. There is some interesting info for users, >>potential users, and developers. Hello Robert, You forgot to mention in your article that DIEP is available for linux-native. it's just a textmode xboard engine, but also works great from console. prize $60 US, or 119 dutch guilders, so it's not freeware and i have currently only sold 1 version (first version i sold i sold for half price) for native linux... ...so saying commercial programs are in big demand under linux is a kind of big word. I have totally gotten like 20 emails asking for a linux version of DIEP all those years. Compare that to a few thousand emails short after every world championship for the newest version of DIEP (diep used to be shareware first few years and for all those cdroms sold i don't get a penny). I send now and then an update for linux to 2 testers and 1 user. currently improving the parallellism of DIEP. DIEP-linux is 4 processors capable (more on demand), though you need at least kernel 2.2.x for it to run with some decent hashtables. That won't be a problem though. this kernel (2.2.10 for example in redhat) is most distributed now. A 2 processor version of DIEP under linux is playing at fics (diepblue) or icc (Secret), so you can first try how it plays if that's a main concern. Operated by Zeke Smigel. It's running the same version i used for playing the dutch open championship. DIEP also ran under linux there on Bob's Quad Xeon from Birmingham Alabama. DIEP is also running on GICS at a K6-300 at DiepChess(C), operated by Ralph Hellmig. The linux executable is around 8% slower than the windows executable, which is caused by the fact that microsoft visual c++ compiler generates faster code than the GCC 2.96 compiler. Linux doesn't support more than 32 mb shared anonymous memory, which i consider a big problem for linux, but i hacked around that in DIEP, therefore diep DOES support up to a few gigabytes hashtable (2 currently, plan to expand that). Greetings, Vincent >> >>http://members.aol.com/rjpawlak/ch_widow.html >> >>Enjoy! > >Thanks >Fernando
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