Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 22:40:34 05/14/98
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On May 14, 1998 at 22:49:04, Joe McCarron wrote: >Well if I were really cynical I would that gambit soft posted the news >that the fritz 5 patch plays as a standalone so that chessbase wouldn't >offer the free upgrade any longer. >What strikes me as odd is that gambit soft takes issue with them putting >up the free patch instead of them not puttign it up sooner. At least >here in the USA it really is pretty rare for a US company to just flat >out renege on a promise. But reneging aside I would Highly recomend >Fritz5, freepatch or no freepatch. I wonder why a true differential patch was not used. This is a program which compares the old and new files and generates an executable which takes the old file and turns it into the new one. The patch created in this way would then be useless without the original files. It would be much smaller too, usually only a few dozen KB. I think there are even shareware programs which will do this. The only complication is that you have to check to make sure whoever is using the patch starts with the right version before patching.
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