End-users
Depending on your system you will require different software.
Please select the system you use at the left for finding the software you require.
If you want to play a game against the computer, you will find a
lot of applications. Alternatively, you might want to play against
another player over the internet or over another network. You might
be looking for storing your played games or for publishing your games
in a newsletter. While I do not yet maintain indexes for these kind
of solutions, you can have a look at the specials section. The
overview section will also give you some indication.
In the near future, you will find reviews of the top programs that
are available for Mac OS.
Note about the different systems:
Systems up till 9 do support special written macintosh applications. These
programs perform normally well on any 68k or PowerMac. Most chess
applications are not requiring special OS specific enhancements to work
and will operate even on System 7.6.
As of 8.6, a carbon library has become available and you will find some
software that will operate well as well on these systems as they will
operate on OS X.
As of OS X, native (aqua) applications exist, and applications that
operate in the classic environment. Alternatively, you can also run
applications in X11. This is an enhancement that has only become standard
as of Mac OS X 10.3.
As of OS X 10.4, universal binaries exist. These are applications that
work as well on an Apple Mac computer as on a Mac Intel computer.
As of OS X 10.12, 32 bit is no longer supported and applications are
being sandboxed. This has a lot of implications on older applications that
stop working.
As of OS X 11. The native environment is ARM. x86 applications are
being emulated.
Please refer to the links page to find out more
information about these different OS systems.
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