apple chess for imac g4

[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

[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.

[stevenaaus]

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvs ... g/download

[hgm]

Is this a machine with Intel or with PowerPC? XBoard is available as an OSX App for Intel CPU.

[mclane]

It has a power pc as far as I know

[MikeB]

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

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G4 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC

[mclane]

Thanks. Will try this out this week end.

[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

[tpoppins]

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?