Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 23:28:32 11/09/99
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On November 10, 1999 at 00:52:56, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>On November 09, 1999 at 22:19:23, leonid wrote:
>
>>Assembler code only in some modules or inline. This never as good as the game
>>created 100% on Assembler. Actually, biggest part of chess game, just before
>>Windows, were done on Assembler. Take, for instance, Genius, Rebel or Fritz. We
>>have some good C games but they all are on the places after the first four.
>
>Fritz is (or at least was) written in assembler. I don't know about Genius, but
>I don't think it was. Rebel, however, is not written in assembler. I don't
>know of any other program that is assembler, either.
Both Rebel and Genius are written in assembler. Earlier versions of Rebel were
written in C, then Ed rewrote the core of the engine in assembly (not
everything, but a good part of it). It probably made sense at that time because
his C compiler was not good enough, I don't think it makes sense anymore.
Christophe
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