Author: Chessfun
Date: 16:49:37 12/11/00
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On December 11, 2000 at 15:38:08, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >You are right, I supposed wrongly that you only used the engine. > >There *was* a way out without patching the buggy interface, and that was >renaming the file to fritz6b.exe and editing it with a hex editor where every >fritz6 string should be replaced by fritz6b, keeping the same string length, >which is possible - because there was an extra space. > >That sentence is way too long, sorry - I got carried away. > >Well, in that case you can use the new engine in the old GUI, provided you >reinstall it. > >I can't find the hex editor anymore so maybe someone else can doublecheck >possible nonsense. > >Jeroen ;-} What Mogens and Enrique wrote is naturally correct as far as the gui went. I renamed the Fritz 6 engine to Fritz6b.exe with a hex editor then re-installed the 6a version leaving both a and b engines. There were specific posts here on how to do this in probably April or May I remember one specifically from Didzis that was correct. Sarah.
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