Author: Paul Petersson
Date: 17:34:15 02/09/00
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On February 08, 2000 at 22:21:03, Christophe Theron wrote: >On February 08, 2000 at 19:48:48, Paul Petersson wrote: > >>On February 08, 2000 at 12:55:25, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On February 08, 2000 at 12:09:48, Tony Schleizer wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>The page says that it is based on the Amsterdam program. >>>>Can somebody tell me how fast a Palm Pilot processor >>>>is compared to the processor the Amsterdam ran on? >>>>Also, if anyone has tried this out, what are your impressions >>>>of it's strength. >>> >>> >>>It is based on the Roma program, not the Amsterdam. >>> >>>The Amsterdam was a 16 bits program, the Roma is a 32 bits program. >>> >>>The Roma program is the last program of Richard Lang that did not use hash >>>tables. >>> >>>It won the 1987 world championship without opposition actually. Saitek and >>>Fidelity did not enter the tournament because they were not ready. If they had, >>>the Roma program would probably have smoked them anyway. >>> >>>The Mephisto Roma on a 14MHz 68020 has been evaluated by the SSDF at 2030 ELO >>>(with a good confidence: -26 +27, 95% confidence). >>> >>>The 14MHz 68020 is evaluated at 2 MIPS. >>> >>>The 16MHz DragonBall EZ (PalmIIIx and PalmV) is evaluated (by Motorola!) at 2.7 >>>MIPS. >>> >>>If all this is true, then you can expect the Palm ChessGenius to be rated at >>>2050 ELO on a standard PalmIIIx or PalmV, and 2080 ELO (approx) on a 26MHz >>>overclocked Palm. >>> >>> >> >>Hi Christophe! >> >>So when will we get Tiger on the Palm? > > >My first short-term goal is to have Tiger back on #1 on the SSDF. Maybe you can >help me? ;) > I'm afraid not, at least not for the moment. I'm busy testing with your strongest competitors. They all have tablebases support while Tiger hasn't. I think it´s almost a necessity to have that if you want to be #1 again. >Then I would like to have Tiger on the Palm too. Just for the pleasure to have >it in my pocket. But will I find the time to do that? > Of course you will, eventually. :) > > >>How did you overclock your PalmIIIx? > > >Download AfterBurner 2.2 at www.palmgear.com. > >There is no need to open the Palm. The clock can be programmed by software (it's >a feature of the DragonBall EZ processor). AfterBurner allows you to change the >setting of the internal clock very easily. You can even choose to run one >program faster, and all other programs at the normal speed. It's great! > Cool! >Most Palms can run much faster than 16MHz. Mine runs at 26MHz since months >without any problem, but theorically 28MHz could be reached. > >It works only with the PalmIIIx and PalmV. > > Thanks for the info. Paul > > Christophe
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