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Subject: Re: CM8000 Patch (finally) available!

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 15:32:41 02/12/01

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On February 12, 2001 at 18:08:02, John Merlino wrote:

>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

 I can confirm the above by also having a Chessmaster.exe dated 2000-10-23 16:44
 size 1.589.273 bytes. It was bought in Sweden and came with a box and manual.
 Full package all in English.

 Sune



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