Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:38:41 04/27/01
Hi: MCP 8 and his predecesors has fallen in the deepest oblivion. Rarely somebody talks something about them. Although a great program, the problem is that it never offered the friendly features that are today the standard. To launch MCP8 -or previous versions- with acceptable hash tables compels to boot with special disk loaded with hymem and other obsolete DOS devices, but even if you accept to play it with no more than 46 Kb for Hash tables, even so you are left outside the windows environment, an untolerable thing for everybody that multitask or want to return fast to windows for anything, from checking the email to use a word procesor. Rebel shares the same problem, but compensates a lot with some tricks to get decent Ram for the engine without so much hassle. All said, it is still and enjoyable program I would like to play from time to time. So my question: which, according to knowleadgeable people here, is the strongest version? It is really the last one, CMP8? I have this one and besides a lot more, beginning with MCP 3,5. I would be moved and grateful if someone here can tell me which of them deserves he first price in strenght in order to load it in my PC for good. I almost cry when I see all those disk getting dusted and forgotten. Fernando
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