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Subject: Re: Century 4 only DOS ! A pity

Author: Roy Brunjes

Date: 06:29:03 09/18/01

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On September 18, 2001 at 01:30:35, Harald Faber wrote:

>On September 17, 2001 at 18:21:04, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>
>>In a german Computer Chess Forum I read "now", that Century 4 will be only a
>>MS-DOS program!
>>
>>Who would have today a Dos-program (I not, I'm sorry) ?
>>
>>Eduard
>
>Me too. DOS is dead. Since years I have just left Win95/98 on my PCs because of
>MCPro and Century but soon will switch to NT/2000/XP, s.th. like that. I am fed
>up with several system crashes and several re-boots. And all that just for
>Century, ONE program. No, no more. NT runs fine at work, only 2 or 3 bluescreens
>within 2 years. So I will throw out Century and MCPro with Win95/98. But as
>MCPro is old now and far behind the nowadays top programs it leaves Century. It
>is a pity, but sorry, for that one prog I won't stick to this instable OS
>anymore. And I doubt that Century runs in NT/2000/XP. At least Century 3 does
>not run under NT so I don't expect it to run in 2000/XP.
>Do I hear you say s.th. about "bootdisk"? Forget it. Not acceptable.
>BTW all you DOS fans, did you ever realize the resolution restrictions in DOS?

Century 3.2 runs great on Windows 2000 - no need to drop Century because you
want to run Windows 2000.  NT ... that is another matter as Century does NOT run
under NT.



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