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Subject: Re: Mindscape - Please Update Your Screen Saver For NT!

Author: Kelly Patterson

Date: 17:04:04 03/24/00

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Hello --

I'm sorry for the problems since I assumed it was the still the same screensaver
that I have -- which is about circa CM4000 or 5000.  I just redownloaded the one
at the site and have encountered the same problems.  Thanks for the tips John;
I'll give it a shot.  Graham -- sorry for any headaches it might have caused.

Thanks again,
Kelly Patterson

On March 21, 2000 at 13:13:59, John Merlino wrote:

>On March 21, 2000 at 06:34:40, Graham Laight wrote:
>
>>Thanks for this - I am grateful.
>>
>>A couple of things don't seem to be quite right under NT, however:
>>
>>* Text on the screen saver appears in a symbol font, so one can't, for example,
>>see who played the games
>>
>>* I can't alter the settings, so I am only being shown the games at a fast speed
>>
>>-g
>>
>
>As you may have noticed, this screen saver was written at the same time as
>CM5000, which is now almost 5 years old. You have probably also noticed that no
>version of Chessmaster has ever supported NT (although the next one almost
>certainly will).
>
>However, I MIGHT be able to at least solve your problems. I have noticed that
>even in Win98 you can't change the settings via the "Screen Saver" tab in the
>Display Properties dialog. However, if you open Explorer and right-click on the
>file "Chessmaster 5000.scr", which SHOULD be in your Windows directory, you will
>see an option called "Configure". That SHOULD open the settings dialog, in which
>you can change the speed (and also turn on the sounds -- which may or may not
>work).
>
>As for the font, did you install the entire theme, or just the screen saver? Do
>you have a file called CM5000.ttf anywhere in your Windows/Fonts directory? If
>so, then you're out of luck, because that should work. If not, then e-mail me
>and I can send you the font.
>
>Best of Luck!
>
>jm
>
>p.s. Sorry, but there are no plans on updating the screen saver at this time.



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