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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