Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:09:54 07/08/01
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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 ? Chessmaster 7000 requires a sound card; there is no way to avoid this requirement. And, actually, Chessmaster 8000 ALSO "requires" a sound card, but a special INI setting (that is really only intended for debugging) was included to allow you to run the program without any sound features at all. As for the "Chessmaster files were deleted as a safety protection for security" message, I have never heard of such a thing. What version of Windows are you running? There is no actual PHYSICAL copy protection in CM7000 (like there is in CM8000), so I'm not sure why Windows would give you such a message. jm
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