Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!brolga!uqcspe!batserver.cs.uq.oz.au!grue From: grue@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Frobozz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: What? NO PD CHESS FOR MAC??? Keywords: chess Message-ID: <5523@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 1 Nov 90 23:19:22 GMT References: <4393@lanl.gov> <1990Nov1.080325.26897@isis.cs.du.edu> Sender: news@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: grue@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au Lines: 36 kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (The Loch Ness Dog) writes: >In article <4393@lanl.gov> tjf@lanl.gov (Tom J Farish) writes: >>Maybe it's time to port one from the (shudder) IBM or Amiga worlds. Several years ago I ported GNUchess to the mac (running under Aztec C's shell), it took about an afternoon to get it going. Most of the effort was re-doing the screen handling stuff. Unfortunately, I no longer have my patched version (and am not about to re-port it since I no longer use Aztec and I don't want to write proper screen handling). If somebody else does the port then good on 'em. >I think aprt of the reason that there are no good PD chess games for >the Mac is that there is no point. For $30 you can buy Sargon IV, which >will kick the tail of just about anything I have ever seen. Set it on >a leisurly 5 minute move and it will challange all but the best players. >With such a good chess player available so cheap, why spend the time >programming an inferior free one? I agree with this in spirit (Sargon isn't $30 in Australia, I'd expect it to be at least double probably triple). Pauli seeya Paul Dale | Internet/CSnet: grue@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au Dept of Computer Science| Bitnet: grue%batserver.cs.uq.oz.au@uunet.uu.net Uni of Qld | JANET: grue%batserver.cs.uq.oz.au@uk.ac.ukc Australia, 4072 | EAN: grue@batserver.cs.uq.oz | UUCP: uunet!munnari!batserver.cs.uq.oz!grue f4e6g4Qh4++ | JUNET: grue@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au --