Author: William Penn
Date: 06:57:48 02/17/01
CM8000 - patch cosmetics My problems with the patch were substantially fixed by reinstalling CM8000 with the Typical option. So it's now down to cosmetics... Help (F1) Contents: There are minor formatting glitches in some of the subdialog boxes. For example under Defining Your Room Environment, Designing Your Playing Area Layout, clicking some of the green links shows an extra row of tabbed numbers at the left. Visual Thinking: needs a move indicator, white or black to move from the given position. That little chessboard diagram has a really excellent design, very legible, so please don't change it!? Except in a perfect world I would make it about 25% larger. Chess Sets: Most of them have poor legibility. I wish that exactly the same chessboard & pieces as used in the Visual Thinking window were available as an option here, in a larger size(s) of course. Thinking Lines: Leave out the unnecessary spaces between the move number and the move. For example rather than 33... Rf8 34. Nd2 Nf6 35. Ng3 Rxf7 it should be 33...Rf8 34.Nd2 Nf6 35.Ng3 Rxf7. Also the g's descender is cut off in the bottom line in the Current Move(s) column, so needs about 1/4th-of-a-line more vertical space. On a scale of 1 to 10 (1=bad 10=good), I would rate: CM7000 = 1 or 2 the original CM8000 release = 2 or 3 after the 101 patch = 6 or 7 So it's getting significantly better, but Pawlak's review is correct -- there's still room for improvement. WP
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