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Subject: Re: I must have the disktco run problem

Author: William Penn

Date: 03:17:19 02/03/01

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On February 03, 2001 at 04:48:37, jonas cohonas wrote:

>On February 03, 2001 at 00:42:10, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>>On February 02, 2001 at 23:13:53, Marc S. Levine wrote:
>>
>>>On February 02, 2001 at 18:23:11, John Merlino wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 02, 2001 at 18:18:57, pete nail wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I saw people talking about the patch for CM8000.
>>>>>I can't find it at www.chessmaster.com or at learningco.
>>>>>Thanks if you can help me !
>>>>
>>>>It hasn't been released yet. It should be any day now....
>>>>
>>>
>>>Will the patch make it necessary to insert the CD each time one uses the
>>>program?  There was some discussion about this issue several weeks ago.
>>>
>>>thanks,
>>>Marc
>>
>>Yes, that is a "cough cough" a bug it will be correcting! Too bad, the only
>>thing you can do is protest so as in future versions of Chessmaster they
>>hopefully stop this practice!
>>
>>Once every two weeks is _MORE_ than enough, which is required for CM7K.
>>Once a month would be more reasonable.
>>
>>John Merlino, will I'm sure address your question, and it's doubtful anything
>>can be done for CM8K, but maybe he can help in preventing this practice in the
>>future if we all protest!
>>
>>I may not even bother with the patch as Fritz6 is my programm of choice at the
>>moment.
>>However, I really like the King programm and will use it as well with the
>>Fischer T/C's as they work well.
>>I hope CM9K or whatever they call it will not have this, ' I must have the disk
>>to run ' problem!
>>
>>Regards,
>>Terry
>
>I agree Terry once a month should be sufficiant!!
>What do you'all think??
>
>Regards
>Jonas

I may not apply the patch if it requires the CD thereafter. I can live with the
bugs, and have found workarounds for my purposes. I am disappointed that I can't
make a backup copy of the CD, which I do with all software. That means someday
when the CD goes belly up, and Chessmaster has gone out of business, I will no
longer have any way to install the software.
WP



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