Wow, that brings back memories. Long since dead. I have written a whole new program from scratch since then (fully bitboard rather than hybrid) that was not as good; and have started a third (smp by design) using magic bitboards, but it is an increasingly occasional hobby. I can only admire those who have the time, ability and energy to continue to plug away.
It is impressive to see how the online 'amateur' community (ie here) has continued to flourish, with new 'stars' and Bob still tirelessly helping all and sundry - despite severe provocation at times. If he was UK I would suggest him for a Queen's honour for 'services to chess programming'.
frankp wrote:Wow, that brings back memories. Long since dead. I have written a whole new program from scratch since then (fully bitboard rather than hybrid) that was not as good; and have started a third (smp by design) using magic bitboards, but it is an increasingly occasional hobby. I can only admire those who have the time, ability and energy to continue to plug away.
It is impressive to see how the online 'amateur' community (ie here) has continued to flourish, with new 'stars' and Bob still tirelessly helping all and sundry - despite severe provocation at times. If he was UK I would suggest him for a Queen's honour for 'services to chess programming'.
Yes - I agree, I appreciate Bob's hard work.
If you still have a Searcher older program executable that you are not going to update it anymore, perhaps you would contemplate on whether to release it?
frankp wrote:Wow, that brings back memories. Long since dead. I have written a whole new program from scratch since then (fully bitboard rather than hybrid) that was not as good; and have started a third (smp by design) using magic bitboards, but it is an increasingly occasional hobby. I can only admire those who have the time, ability and energy to continue to plug away.
It is impressive to see how the online 'amateur' community (ie here) has continued to flourish, with new 'stars' and Bob still tirelessly helping all and sundry - despite severe provocation at times. If he was UK I would suggest him for a Queen's honour for 'services to chess programming'.
Ok, you admire people without a familiy to feed or millionaires who must not work for a living. You like a teacher who gets paid from taxes for a lifetime and you dislike people who ask intriguing questions and make critical remarks - in special when he's chasing the actually best CC programmer Vasik Rajlich.
-Popper and Lakatos are good but I'm stuck on Leibowitz
M ANSARI wrote:With Win XP_64bit I can have one image...
Hi Majd,
what tool do you use for creating that image?
Lately I have been using Acronis since I can do everything from Windows and it is compatible with Vista. For a long time I used to use Drive Image but do not have the latest Vista compatible version. The Acronis software works very well and you can have one image of XP_64bit and have it updated with all the service packs and it is good to go. Once you install it with new hardware you will ofcourse be required to install new drivers for the hardware you have not drivers for ... but usually that is very quick and simple. I actually have a Win_XP_64bit_CHESS image which has everything for chess including all the engines and GUI's and any stuff I need for Chess. It sure saves a lot of time and the lack of MS validation requirement alone makes it worth it.
