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apple chess for imac g4
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 11:18 am
by mclane
hi, i bought a used apple imac g4 for almost nothng and would like to do a little chess on it too.
i have seen there is an integrated chess program , but this does not fit my needs.
can some apple user help me getting a gui and uci engines for apple installed on the old imac g4 ?
i never really used an apple pc before.
ok i have an ipad but that is of course completely different.
i do have internet on the g4. i am not interested in ELO but in the fun level.
so what is possible on this old but cool designed machine from 2002 ??
The machine has 700 MHz and 1 GB RAM and Mac OS X 10.5.8
Re: apple chess for imac g4
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 12:20 pm
by kaissa
Chessmaster 9000, Sigmachess and Macchess are the ones that came to my mind first.
I think Hiarcs requires Mac OS X 10.7 as minimum.
http://www.hiarcs.com/mac-chess-explorer.htm
Shredder needs 10.8 as minimum.
https://www.shredderchess.com/chess-sof ... ntosh.html
Then there is the Stockfish:
https://stockfishchess.org/mac/
Not a Mac owner but love it! Not sure about GUI + UCI engine combination though.
Re: apple chess for imac g4
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 12:41 pm
by stevenaaus
Re: apple chess for imac g4
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:56 pm
by hgm
Is this a machine with Intel or with PowerPC? XBoard is available as an OSX App for Intel CPU.
Re: apple chess for imac g4
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 11:43 pm
by mclane
It has a power pc as far as I know
Re: apple chess for imac g4
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 4:14 am
by MikeB
mclane wrote: ↑Wed Aug 15, 2018 11:18 am
hi, i bought a used apple imac g4 for almost nothng and would like to do a little chess on it too.
i have seen there is an integrated chess program , but this does not fit my needs.
can some apple user help me getting a gui and uci engines for apple installed on the old imac g4 ?
i never really used an apple pc before.
ok i have an ipad but that is of course completely different.
i do have internet on the g4. i am not interested in ELO but in the fun level.
so what is possible on this old but cool designed machine from 2002 ??
The machine has 700 MHz and 1 GB RAM and Mac OS X 10.5.8
The Hiarcs folks might be able to help you out if you have few bucks to spend.
http://www.hiarcs.com/prev-prod/MacH13- ... nload1.htm
Re: apple chess for imac g4
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 8:52 am
by Norbert Raimund Leisner
Re: apple chess for imac g4
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:23 am
by mclane
Thanks. Will try this out this week end.
Re: apple chess for imac g4
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 1:17 am
by karger
I have and use an old ppc G4 and use the free version of Sigma chess 6.2. You can import ppc UCI versions of stockfish , glaurung , crafty & other engines. It is by far the best Mac ppc GUI and has a great interface & allows use of all UCI options with it's engine manager. Karger
Re: apple chess for imac g4
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:25 am
by tpoppins
karger wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 1:17 am
You can import ppc UCI versions of stockfish , glaurung , crafty & other engines.
Crafty is CECP (Winboard), not UCI. Do you mean the Sigma Chess GUI supports the Winboard protocol as well as UCI?