Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 07:00:58 07/28/00
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On July 27, 2000 at 18:20:22, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 27, 2000 at 18:17:49, Don Prohaska wrote: >[snip] >>Yeah, that drove me up the wall, too. Find the damn CD. Now where did I put it. >>Ready to dump the whole thing. But, after a while it stopped doing it. I >>haven't been asked for a CD for many months now. Don't know why it started, >>sometimes always, sometimes randomly, now never. Beats me. Oh, yes, I use >>Fritz6 and all the latest engines. Glad I'm past all the CD crap! I remember a post here sometime ago to get around the cd checks. If I remember correctly, you simply set the CD Drive setting in the interface to the drive that has the engines folder. So it you were like me and had Fritz installed on your C: then you would simply edit the part for CD drive to C: Then simply rename the C: to the engine you wish to use, and bam, when it checks, there is no CD searching, as it thinks it is on the correct drive. I just tested this, and it seems to work. I have used Hiarcs 7.32 in the Fritz 5.32 interface, and switch between engines frequently, and now I never ger asked for the cd. You will notice that it edits the path to the file, in the engines.ini, and chssbase.ini. So to recap: 1: Set the interface setting for CD drive to your hard drive 2: Rename the drive where your engines are installed, to the engine you wish to use, ie: Hiarcs732 for Hiarcs, Fritz6 for Fritz and so on 3: Once you do this once.. it never asks you for the cd again... Maybe just a small fix, but it seems to work, and if you really own the cd's why should anyone care you are doing it, it is just saving time. Note to Dan: Shredder 4.0 is extremely strong, and as for Nimzo, I recommend buying it. I use it to train against, and I find it better than Fritz of Junior in this respect... It has raised my rating on FICS by 200 points in 3 months. ( I am now 1200, instead of 1000 :) ) But hey I am trying :)
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