Author: John Merlino
Date: 08:43:37 08/23/01
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On August 23, 2001 at 05:41:39, Peter Berger wrote: >On August 23, 2001 at 03:16:12, van baker wrote: > >>Hello, Anyone out there,I am just trying the CM 8k for the first time. >>It seems terrible to me, after having the 6000 The layouts are missing, >>I cant get a good custom board, and the secs. per move it moves >>instantly. Did I get a bad disk? > >No - this is a known bug . There is a patch you can download at >http://www.chessmaster.com that will fix this. > Apart from the patch fixing the seconds per move bug, I can comment on your other two issues: -- The layout feature is still there, and there are four layouts that can be loaded. Three of them, though, are tailored to a specific screen resolution (800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024). The last one is called "Micro Chess", which will only take up a small portion of the screen. Just like with CM6000, your setup for each room is automatically saved when you quit the program (or log out and log in as a different user). -- The Custom Board feature in CM8000 is identical to CM6000, in the sense that anything you could create in CM6000 you can duplicate in CM8000. The interface to it has changed slightly, though. Apart from the window in which you can make minor adjustments to the board orientation and change the colors, there is also a mouse interface (added in the patch) in which you can make large changes to the orientation without having to go to the Select Chess Set dialog (like you had to do in CM6000). Look for item #35 in the description of the 1.0.1 patch; it will detail how to use the mouse to adjust the board. jm
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