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Subject: Re: CM8000 hangs sometimes when playing my Winboard engine.

Author: John Merlino

Date: 22:26:50 11/27/00

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On November 27, 2000 at 23:44:49, Anthony Boynes wrote:

>John,
>
>At first you said Chessmaster 8000 would run fine on Windows 2000.  Now that
>reports are coming in to the contrary, you seem to be doing quite a bit of
>backpedaling on that issue.  I am glad I did not take your advice and purchase
>the product.

No backpedaling at all. Nor did I ever give anybody "advice" to purchase it if
they had Windows 2000. I have always said that Chessmaster would not officially
support Win2K, but that, since several of the development team's machines were
running Win2K, they were obviously not having any serious problems with it. The
reason that that platform is not OFFICIALLY supported is that Mattel
Interactive's testing department does not have enough machines and manpower to
thoroughly test on Windows 95/98 AND Win2K.

All I have said was that there were no known serious problems when the program
was shipped. But, just like with Win98 users, there will always be bugs that
will not come out until the program is released to the general public. The rule
that the program gets more testing in its first 72 hours after release than it
did during the entire development cycle holds true. Of the dozen or so bugs that
have been reported (and not all have been verified yet), only 3 are Win2K
specific.

jm



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