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Subject: Re: CM8000 "Instant Play/No Thinking" bug finally found!

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:25:25 01/22/01

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On January 22, 2001 at 16:13:42, Laurence Chen wrote:

>On January 22, 2001 at 14:28:29, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>For those of you who have experiencing this bug (Fernando Villegas, Tina Long,
>>Kevin Harrison, Joe Pechie, and perhaps others), I can FINALLY say that this bug
>>has been found. Basically, it had to do with certain versions of Windows that
>>were using certain time zone settings. Don't ask for details because I don't
>>have them, but I can definitely state that this bug will be fixed in the patch,
>>in 2-3 weeks.
>>
>>The dev team and I thank you all for all of your help and patience in this
>>matter, and we apologize for the inconvenience,
>>
>>jm
>When you say time zone, does it mean that changing the time zone to United
>States will solve this auto move bug?  I had a software which had similar
>problem, it would install alright, but it refused to run because I had the time
>zone set as Canada, I changed to USA and it worked fine after that. Is this what
>you mean?
>Regards,
>
>Laurence

It is possible, but I am reluctant to suggest that as changing your time zone
may adversely affect other software (or even your Windows installation as a
whole). Do it at your own risk, but it would probably work as a temporary fix
until the patch.

jm



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