Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:27:23 11/10/99
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On November 10, 1999 at 06:11:14, Eelco de Groot wrote:
>
>On November 10, 1999 at 02:28:32, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On November 10, 1999 at 00:52:56, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
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>>>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
>
>I suppose that Ed thinks about switching then from Symantec C to MSVC,
>Christophe? I was wondering, is the new GUI also done in Visual C? Or do you
>guys also use Delphi or something like that? If that isn't sensitive
>information...Not that I know much about those languages, when they started with
>Objects things went a little over my head.
>
>Regards,Eelco
I think that yes, Ed has to switch from Symantec to MSVC, but you should ask him
directly. It's not difficult anyway.
The new GUI is also written with MSVC.
I have not written the GUI. Objects are also completely over my head. :)
Christophe
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