amiga-news.de - Chess: AmiChess and Crafty

27.Oct.2002
Achim Stegemann (ANF)

Chess: AmiChess and Crafty
Achim Stegemann writes:
"Although having been announced as soon as the beginning of October, the two new chess programs AmiChess and Crafty have finally found their way into the Aminet.

AmiChess is a GNUChess 5.0.4 based program with a GUI making use of MUI.

Alas, some users have already told me that AmiChess doesn't run on their Amiga. I don't know the reason for this, as it works without problems on my computers (Amiga, Amithlon and UAE). In this case I am asking all users with this problem to mail me their Amiga configuration and a SnoopDOS log file.

The second program, Crafty, is an Amiga port of the very strong program by Bob Hyatt. The most current version 18.15 has been ported. Crafty can only be played under ixemul in pure text mode in a shell. In return it has proven itself to be a very strong opponent!

The binaries of both programs have been compiled towards a 68020/68881 combination and thus should run on this or better CPU configurations. Due to the source code's particularities, a PPC port is currently impossible. However, fast x86 emulators like UAE, AmigaXL or Amithlon are an adequate substitute.

Further information can be found on my home page."

AmiChess runs from AmigaOS 3.5/3.9, MUI 3.8 and CPU 68020 with FPU 68881.

Crafty requires the ixemul.library V48+ and runs from CPU 68020 with FPU 68881.

Download:

AmiChess.lha (209K), Readme
Crafty-18.15.lha (599K), Readme

(sd) (Translation: cb)

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