Author: William Bryant
Date: 20:37:37 01/29/00
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On January 29, 2000 at 23:01:11, James Robertson wrote: >On January 29, 2000 at 20:39:41, William Bryant wrote: > >>On January 29, 2000 at 19:22:45, Will Singleton wrote: >> >>>On January 29, 2000 at 18:03:22, William Bryant wrote: >>> >>>>Screamer Chess 1.0 for Macintosh now has a homepage. >>>> >>>>http://pweb.netcom.com/~wbryant/screamer.html >>>> >>>>William >>>>wbryant@ix.netcom.com >>> >>>That's pretty cool. Sorry you couldn't participate in the ICC tourney, I'm sure >>>you'd have done well. >>> >>>Will >> >>The 'Big Three" on my to do list are an opening book, end game table bases, and >>an ICC interface. I'm already ready to talk about next year. >> >>William >>wbryant@ix.netcom.com > >Is there a windows version planned soon? I have been very impressed with its >results on many positions people have posted here, and want to try it out. :) > >James James, I appreciate your interest, and good luck in the tournament. The problem lies in creating an interface for the C/C++ engine code. Although most of the engine avoids Mac Os system calls, the interface is ripe with them, and I don't at present wish to duplicate the interface so the program has a windows driver. The interesting thing is, in using Codewarrior, I have the cross-compilers available for Windows but don't know the first thing about Win/NT programming. At the heart of Winboard/Xboard (as I understand it) is io redirection. Writing to and reading from standard in/standard out as a way of communicating between applications. This won't work on the Mac OS which is why no one has ported Xboard to the Mac (again as I under stand it). Apple's solution is AppleEvents. I had Macs long before I got bitten by the computer chess bug, so am unlikely to change at present. Although the 700 mhz AMD machines do have me drooling a little. This is a long-winded way of saying, not anytime soon. : ( There are several venders porting Linux to PPC's, maybe Screamer can become a Xboard engine after all. Hey, Linux, 500+ Mhz PPC G4, vector processing, mabey a micro version of Cray Blitz. (I know, I know, In my dreams ..... : ) William wbryant@ix.netcom.com
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