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Subject: Re: CM8000 Patch (finally) available!

Author: John Merlino

Date: 15:08:02 02/12/01

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On February 12, 2001 at 17:52:22, Andreas St. wrote:

>On February 12, 2001 at 17:40:42, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On February 12, 2001 at 17:37:53, Andreas St. wrote:
>>
>>>On February 12, 2001 at 17:23:49, John Merlino wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 12, 2001 at 17:20:26, Andreas St. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 12, 2001 at 15:51:23, John Merlino wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>The Chessmaster 8000 patch is finally up on our website (www.chessmaster.com).
>>>>>>Just click on the "Downloads" button to get to the patch link. Also note that
>>>>>>there is a completely updated and expanded FAQ, which you can read by going to
>>>>>>www.chessmaster.com/faqs8000.html.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The ReadMe for the patch is quite long, so I'm not going to post it here (unless
>>>>>>somebody particularly wants me to). The patch download itself is relatively very
>>>>>>small, compared to most games these days, only 605KB.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm sure that Chessmaster will now perform as all of you hoped it would. And
>>>>>>hopefully the SSDF will now start testing it!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Enjoy, and many thanks to all of you who posted problems and/or helped the
>>>>>>development team and I find and fix them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>jm
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>just downloaded the patch. and installed. Now chessmaster doesnt make any move
>>>>>anymore!!! i use any personality, i make a first move but Cm makes nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thats bullshit.
>>>>>
>>>>>Sorry. i use Windows ME.
>>>>>
>>>>>Greets AS
>>>>
>>>>Check to see if there is a PATCH.ERR file that the patch may have created. If
>>>>so, then let me know what it says....
>>>>
>>>>jm
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi John,
>>>
>>>yes i have a patch.err. It says:
>>>
>>>ENTRY: Chessmaster.exe
>>>warning wpt0036: Old File not found. However, a file of the same name was
>>>               found. No update done since file contents do not match
>>>
>>>I hope it can help you/me.
>>>
>>>Greets
>>>
>>>AS
>>
>>Wow, that's a major surprise. Somehow, either you got a different
>>CHESSMASTER.EXE file than the one that is on the CD, or your file got changed,
>>because your copy of that file that the patch is trying to modify is different
>>from what it is expecting.
>>
>>What are the specs of your Chessmaster.exe file (date, time, size, attributes,
>>etc.)? Is that file read-only? Where did you get your copy of the game?
>>
>>jm
>
>Hi,
>
>I have ordered the CM 8000 from the German www.niggemann.com.
>
>The specs of my Chessmaster.exe:
>
>Date 23. Oct. 2000
>
>1.589.273 bytes.
>
>Version 1.0.0.0
>
>If this is a problem with german copies, what now???
>
>Greets

Very good question. Did your copy from niggemann.com come with a box and
manual?Is any of the actual program in German? If so, then this is news to the
development team, who is completely unaware of any non-English versions of the
program. The patch assumes the US-English release, as there should be no other
versions (as far as I'm told -- I will look into this further).

jm



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