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Subject: Re: Rebel Tiger price for rebel customers

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:02:14 01/13/00

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On January 13, 2000 at 20:30:30, Ricardo Sant Ana wrote:

>By the way, if I am not WRONG (and I am sure I can be) would the next windows
>version of rebel the a windows version of rebel century ? So, WHY rebel tiger
>came first ?????

Rebel is a DOS based program written (IIRC) largely in assembly language.  To do
a Windows port of such a beast is an ENORMOUS effort.  Chess Tiger is a C
program which can be rewritten as a DLL or chess engine with a miniscule
fraction of the energy and effort.  Basically, a few tiny interface additions
and recompile are all that would be needed for Tiger.  I would have been utterly
astounded if it had turned out the other way around.  I suspect that the Rebel
Windows version may be even later than planned, having done Windows conversions
myself.



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