Have you looked at the alternatives and forks? There are so many, so if you are taking up the work to make it progress, it would be nice to take the changes of the other repositories and merge them all together in a super-SciDB.foolnotion wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 6:35 pm Unfortunately my favorite chess program on linux, scidb, seems very much dead. ...
Repo is here: https://github.com/foolnotion/scidb
It took me a couple of minutes to find the following list. I occasionally use some of the scid versions, but I have trouble identifying the most modern or up-to-date one.
https://scidb.sourceforge.net/
https://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidpp/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/py-scid/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/chessdb/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/newscid/
https://github.com/benini/scid
https://github.com/bahmanm/scidup
https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/scidvsmac
And runtimes and related projects:
https://code.google.com/archive/p/scidonthego/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scid-recast/
https://github.com/mdgabriel/scidb-hquery