Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Crafty 19.20 64Bit single CPU. I'm confused! Also Linux help.....

Author: Ryan B.

Date: 15:41:05 12/04/05

Go up one level in this thread


On December 04, 2005 at 18:27:21, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>
>From WBEC page for Crafty i have downloaded the "single 64 Bit CPU version for
>AMD 64 & Opteron systems" compile for Crafty.
>My system is AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ 2211 MHz with 1.023 MB Memory and
>Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
>
>But i can't run the aforementioned Crafty as it says "This is not a valid Win32
>application".
>
> What does this mean and can i make it run, or my system is not appropriate for
>running that specific compile for Crafty?
> I suspect that Windows XP SP2, are not capable to run 64 bit but i'm completely
>unknowledgeable on this matter, to say for sure such a thing......
>
>So Gnu-Linux..........?
>By the way can anyone provide me with the best site for downloading the most
>USER-FRIENDLY Gnu-Linux distribution?


You need a 64bit OS.  There is a 64 bit ver of both Windows XP and 2003 and many
free 64bit flavors of Linux.  Red Hats FC is easy to use and update.
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.