Hi guys,
Unfortunately my favorite chess program on linux, scidb, seems very much dead. But even if it's unmaintained I still use it a lot for opening preparation. So I made a fork and I fixed the source to allow it to compile on modern systems. I also fixed a bug which made it crash on Wayland and released an AppImage to make it easy to use.
Repo is here: https://github.com/foolnotion/scidb
Contributions or maintainers welcome.
Scidb fork for modern linux
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cpeters
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Re: Scidb fork for modern linux
Hello!
The project is actively maintained I think - albeit on sourceforge.
https://sourceforge.net/u/fulvioscid/profile/
It'd be a pity indeed if your contributions would not reach upstream/the scid-landscape is getting cluttered (many forks plus already a vibecoded one)...
Greetings
The project is actively maintained I think - albeit on sourceforge.
https://sourceforge.net/u/fulvioscid/profile/
It'd be a pity indeed if your contributions would not reach upstream/the scid-landscape is getting cluttered (many forks plus already a vibecoded one)...
Greetings
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foolnotion
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Re: Scidb fork for modern linux
I don't really plan on maintaining it any further than this bare minimum Wayland support, which probably the forks have already solved.
I think the right direction is chess databases based on sqlite/duckdb or something more modern in any case.
I think the right direction is chess databases based on sqlite/duckdb or something more modern in any case.