Author: William Penn
Date: 21:38:59 12/11/00
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On December 11, 2000 at 19:30:25, Terry McCracken wrote: >On December 11, 2000 at 19:00:58, Terry Ripple wrote: > >On December 11, 2000 at 17:09:34, Terry McCracken wrote: > >About a week ago I obtained CM8000 and decided to go with the ( Custom Install >), both discs. All files were copied to my HD. >Now the Chessmaster site along with the instruction manual always says you need >Disc 1 inserted in your CD-ROM drive. >Well this is not the case, at least not for me. I'm able to run CM8000 without >the Disc! This surprised me, as it's explict that you can't run CM8000 without >it. >Is anyone else running CM8000 without Disc 1 in their CD drive? Or is this an >anomaly? >------------- >This has been addressed at this forum by John Mareno(Rep) for Chessmaster. He >says that the program is supposed to make you use Disc 1 in order to use CM8000. >But there were several people on here including myself that proclaim that they >don't need to insert the disc in order to play. The ChessMaster Rep. says that >it will be fixed in the next patch so that we will all need to insert the disc >before we can use Chessmaster. WE all should have kept our mouths shut! Now we >will have the aggravation to need the CD inserted every time we want to play. > >There won't be any way around this because the patch will correct all the other >bugs that were discovered which you will need. One important problem is >correcting the time controls, because ChessMaster 8000 moves way too fast where >if it thought longer on it's moves it would be able to make better choices in >it's moves! > >Regards,Terry >-------------- > >Thanks for your response, although I'm not too happy either that this is going >to be " Patched " as well! The timing is a must. >" Copy Protection " to this level is down right ludicrous and will hurt future >sales of Chessmaster. I have CM7000 and it of course requires the disc, but only >twice a month at most and even that is a bit annoying. However I can live with >that. So why did'nt they stay there? Mattel I guess? Too bad:( >I'm truly amazed that Mindscape/Mattel have taken software protection to this >level of stupidity! I hope they read this BB and reconsider " What " really >needs to be " Fixed "! >Maybe we should write them! It's no longer Mattel. They were sold and reverted to The Learning Company name. You can email them via http://www.mattelsupport.com/Email_support.asp I'd like to lobby in favor of a "every 30 days or every 30 startups" requirement to put the CD in the drive. They are obviously going to introduce something, and that would be acceptable to me, while still giving them adequate protection. WP
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