Engine Book questions

[Dark Horse]

in making an "own engine book" is the book file platform independant?

can the same file run for a Mac engine like say Glaurung and a windows engine like say HIARCS or Zappa?

[Dark Horse]

hmmmm not much discussion here

[turbojuice1122]

Generally speaking, you cannot change the interface in which a book runs, and certainly not the operating system. For example, a book made in a Chessbase GUI like Fritz, Junior, CB/Shredder, Hiarcs, etc. will not be able to run outside of that GUI, so it cannot run in Chess Assistant, Arena, etc. However, Aquarium will be able to read such books, though not write to them. I would guess that books made in any GUI on a Macintrash will have no prayer of running in Chessbase, etc. There might be exceptions to this, though--others will know more than I do...

[Dark Horse]

I was asking about a book.bin file and btw having used Mac for a long time now I will say that it is much much better than running anything else :)

[Vempele]

PolyGlot books should be portable accross platforms. Engine books are not portable accross engines.

[Harvey Williamson]

PolyGlot books should be portable accross platforms. Engine books are not portable accross engines.

your right. The Hiarcs UCI book will work in any GUI that supports UCI.

[Krazyken]

in making an "own engine book" is the book file platform independant?

can the same file run for a Mac engine like say Glaurung and a windows engine like say HIARCS or Zappa?

Yes and no. Some books use endian specific code. So a book made on a PPC may not be compatible with a book made on Intel. Some books made in plain text format use different line endings, so a Windows book may not work on *nix, or Mac without being converted first.