Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 00:28:44 05/06/98
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On May 05, 1998 at 18:26:09, Moritz Berger wrote: >And why should they sell it? You certainly know as well as I do that >providing technical support to endusers on auto232 incompatibilities and >glitches (I'm not talking about the Fritz autoplayer here!) probably >costs more than they would ever earn from selling it ... So it doesn't >sound very attractive at all to sell this kind of product ... Why should ChessBase sell a fritz5 with auto232 support ? Is this the question here ? Really ? To let the customers prove their device, like all other programmers WIN or DOS ones have done. >Thorsten: Do you know the difference between DOS and Windows? Yes. >You're talking about a device that only works in plain DOS. With DOS >based programs. Disk Operating System. Stoneage Technology. Microsoft >DOS. Nimzo98 and Shredder2 32 bit code for autoplaying. Should not be impossible to implement this into Fritz. >>I can take a look into Computerschach and Spiele. Maybe they also wrote >>something about this product. > >One of my favourite poetical quotes comes to my mind: "stick a fork in >their ass and turn them over, they're done". I can only guess from the context that you talk about CSS now ?! They are done ? Wow, thats what I always said too... (C)SS Titanic sinks ! >NOBODY can buy a plug and play ready to go autoplayer device for >WINDOWS. Thats true. But there is a kind of standard established in the moment. I can only say that Shredder and Nimzo work very good using this standard. And all other dos programs too. >Many tanks, like we Krauts like to say. Krauts ?!
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