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Subject: Re: ChessMaster 7000 annoyances

Author: William Wentworth

Date: 14:17:58 07/07/01

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On July 07, 2001 at 16:16:58, pete stein wrote:

>On July 07, 2001 at 14:40:34, William Wentworth wrote:
>
>>I bought ChessMaster 7000 online, second hand but original, because of the
>>database.
>>Unfortunately the database is not in pgn format and to export it to pgn you
>>should run the chessmaster gui.
>>In order to run the chessmaster gui you should have a voice card which I
>>haven't.
>>Every time I got splash screens and my PC froze up every time.
>>Finally my Windows got screwed up and I had to run Windows setup again during
>>which all "Chessmaster files were deleted as a safety protection for security"
>>It seems it contains more protection than anything else.
>>In short I lost a whole day of work.
>>
>>I read in this forum that it is possible to run Chessmaster 8000 without voice
>>card if you change something in some ini file.
>>Is that possible with Chessmaster 7000 as well ?
>>Is there another program that can convert the Chessmaster database to pgn ?
>
>
>Try editing CM.ini
>For a conversion tool look to Dann's site.
>
>Pete

But what should I write in Cm.ini so that it will not need a voice card ?



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