Author: Scott Woods
Date: 13:36:18 02/15/01
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On February 15, 2001 at 16:07:48, John Merlino wrote: >Here's everything that I know: > >-- The CD master for the European version that was sent from our US office to >our European office produced an identical EXE to the one on the US version. In >other words, the only difference SHOULD have been at the end of the ReadMe file, >which gave European Technical and Customer Support addresses and phone numbers. >So, somebody in Europe changed the EXE without telling the US office, which >meant the development team was never told. This is why a patch was released that >doesn't work on the European version. > >-- The patch DOES break the custom board. There are also two newly reported bugs >(both were in v1.0.0). One is a very obscure crash when doing a Data Query in >the Database room. The other is a minor tutorial fix. There are no other >CONFIRMED new problems reported that were caused by the 1.0.1 patch. The >problems that William Penn was experiencing have not been duplicated, but some >further investigation is still warranted to try to determine what could have >caused them. One other user (can't remember who) reported that the White and >Black radio buttons in the Visual Thinking dialog did not work properly, but no >actual details on how to make them not work have yet been received. > >-- Therefore, since there are new bugs to fix, there will be a new US patch that >will be released at the same time as the European patch. BOTH of these patches >will be v1.0.2, to avoid confusion. The will both produce an identical EXE, but >two patches are required as the patch needs to know the original file contents, >so it can do a "difference" or "delta" patch. > >-- The time frame for the release of the 1.0.2 patches is still up in the air, >unfortunately, because the development team needs an actual master from the >European offices to ensure that it has the proper files that the European users >are getting on their machines. Hopefully, this master set will arrive in our >offices today or tomorrow, but it may not be for several days, depending on what >sort of priority they decide to give it. Once the master is received, both >patches will be created, and the testing process will start. This will probably >take about one week. > >-- Therefore, I would venture to guess that the 1.0.2 patches will not be >released until AT LEAST February 26th, and perhaps not for a week after that, or >even more. > >Once again, we apologize for all of the confusion, > >jm John, Why not let European users download the US version of chessmaster.exe? Thanks Scott
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