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Subject: Re: Question for John Merlino (& others who are interested) re CM8K Strength

Author: John Merlino

Date: 14:17:47 04/10/01

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On April 10, 2001 at 17:13:37, Scott Woods wrote:

>On April 10, 2001 at 17:07:01, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On April 10, 2001 at 16:54:38, Scott Woods wrote:
>>
>>>John,
>>>
>>>CM8K works fine on both machines, and no loss of strength either.
>>>
>>>What I did was this....
>>>Download from the web page I gave earlier.
>>>
>>>You get a file called winboard232b.exe and some HTML documentation.
>>>
>>>Save winboard232b.exe in the program files/Chessmaster 8000 directory
>>>
>>>In CM8K import a new XBOARD engine and point the file name to
>>>c:\program files\Chessmaster 8000\winboard232b
>>>
>>>In the parameters field type in the COM port the null modem cable is connected
>>>to:-
>>>
>>>-COM2 -NOEXTEND           ( nb -COM1 is default )
>>>
>>>
>>>Do this for both machines.
>>>Now Game-New game  - Set up the players as Chessmaster and winboard232b
>>>( of course alternate the players on each machine  )
>>>and presto  you have 2 CM8K machines playing each other.
>>>
>>>
>>>Now, do I now have a licence problem or can you blag me a freebie ;-P
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>Scott
>>
>>Many thanks.... Why would you have a license problem? ;-P back at you....
>>
>>jm
>
>Hehehe.
>You obviously have never worked at Microsoft....
>
>As long as you guys don't mind that I bought 1 copy of CM8K and have it running
>on my 2 machines at the same time.( many other companies do object to this)
>
>I tend to avoid such practices - ( not good for the software industry )
>
>So if you guys don't mind then I'm happy
>
>Cheers
>Scott

If you don't mind swapping the CDs to get the two copies started, then it's
perfectly ok. And, if you've found a way around the copy protection, I don't
want to hear about it....

jm



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