Houdini under macOS

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MikeB
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Houdini under macOS

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Just for kicks today, I tried running Houdini 6.03 x32 ( windows) under the HIARCS MacOS Explorer and it worked! Here's it's playing a 32 bit version of McCain-X4 (Windows). Although I have often tried running w32 engines in the past ( about once a year) , I only had somewhat spotty success under the terminal app using wine.

A short 5 min game QT screen movie is linked below (66MB download):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9j7osvstk9xd9 ... S.mov?dl=0

This is two windows 32 bit apps playing against each other under the macOS HIARCS Explorer app.

For what's it worth, I also tried it under the xBoard app , but I believe the the uci polyglot adaptor introduced additional complexities which I was unable to hurdle.
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