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Subject: Re: CHESSMASTER 7000

Author: Roger D Davis

Date: 23:32:58 09/05/99

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I thought that future pressings of the same program often incorporated patches
already, so that the user doesn't have to go out and patch things up themselves.

You guys are talking about versions...there may be some ambiguity involved
here...perhaps Fernando means version numbers.

Roger


On September 06, 1999 at 01:44:12, Micheal Cummings wrote:

>On September 05, 1999 at 22:39:31, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>
>>Translation in short:
>>Experience show failures are the rules and patches does not fix everything. So
>>it is with any kind of software. But if you want to do otherwise, is your
>>business. I will wait and see.
>>Fernando
>
>
>I doubt Mindscape will bring out another version of Chessmaster 7000, as far as
>I know they have never done it with any other version. As a matter of fact most
>games or programs never bring out another version of the same program unless it
>is a better version. Microsoft does it with their operating system, but you have
>to dish money out for it. And usually they advertise it as an upgrade to the
>previous version.
>
>So to translate in CM7000 terms, you can wait till the next version of
>Chessmaster 7000 comes out. That will be Chessmaster 8000, since you will have
>the same problem with you bug thing in the new release for CM8K, well you will
>never own another version of chessmaster again :(
>
>So if you want Chessmaster I suggest you buy it when it comes out and download
>the patches when they are released cause nothing else is going to happen. There
>will be only one release of CM7K.
>
>Rebel and Fritz and Shredder are the same as far as I know, they only bring out
>patches don't they ????



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