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Subject: Re: XP Experience until now

Author: Manuel Rodriguez Blanco

Date: 13:04:58 10/27/01

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Hi Ed, as a consumer too i most say your program is great, is my favourite
program when i want play with humans, but the time for buy Dos programs
definitively ended for me. i most stop buy Rebel software until you put it in a
Good windows GUI.  Resistance is futile, early or late you most abbandon the
good old DOS.

Now let me dream: maybe you can do like Crhistopher Teron, and make and engine
for run under Chessbase GUI, that will be wonderfull, but always exist a
BUT.......

Manuel




On October 27, 2001 at 06:24:55, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On October 27, 2001 at 04:59:13, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On October 27, 2001 at 03:11:10, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>>On October 26, 2001 at 19:20:47, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>>
>>>>I all:
>>>>A couple of days ago I wrote a list of some programs that does work and those
>>>>that does not in XP environment. No reply appeared, so I ms asume I left all
>>>>people in amazement, frozen in awe so nobody could write a word.
>>>>Well, I like that. Kind of an exercize in humility. So here goes the second one
>>>>about XP perfomance. I have been using it intensively for 5 days and this is it:
>>>>Pros:
>>>>It has not hang at all
>>>>It has not frozen until now
>>>>No blue screen
>>>>My internet connection -by now a simple Dial-Up one- is running two or three
>>>>times faster.
>>>>Fritz 6 went from around 390 Knodes to near 500 in the same 500 Mhz AMD-K6 where
>>>>I runned Windows Me. Maybe I did a bad measurement before?
>>>>Faster loading of all programs, including itself.
>>>>Far prettier interface.
>>>>Cons:
>>>>It is not very friendly with AMd cards, but, although putting an unhappy face,
>>>>it has worked with every driver on the integrateded card I use. Until now...
>>>>Some chess programs definitively does not run: the worst case is century and to
>>>>my chagrin as it is one of my favourites.
>>>>Until now is not easy to find an AV program that is compatible. I found one that
>>>>is more or less so, Panda Platinum, but still give me some reports of
>>>>malfuntioning. But I have not tested NT AV's. Maybe they fits better.
>>>>Now, say something...
>>>>Fernando
>>>
>>>
>>>Fernando,
>>>
>>>Please send an email to info@rebel.nl with a description what goes wrong.
>>>While XP's kernel more or less is Windows 2000 we have noticed that a too
>>>small swap-file (the virtual memory) may cause a problem at times. So my
>>>hint would be to increase the size of the swap-file. Windows works best
>>>if you make the swap-file 2 x the available memory. So if you have 256 Mb
>>>in your PC make the swap-file 512 Mb.
>>>
>>>When it still does not work sue Bill or less stressy let me know and we
>>>do his job in the form of a patch.
>>>
>>>Ed
>>
>>No disrespect, but Bill isn't the one who has the problem with updating his
>>software.
>
>It was a joke Slate. I thought it would be self-understood.
>
>Ed
>
>
>
>>No disrespect again, but DOS has been "officially" dead for about 8 years now,
>>and you still have *new* versions of Century running exclusivly in DOS.
>>
>>From what I do know about XP, it's going to be no easy task to get Century to
>>run "happily" with XP.
>>
>>Perhaps MS is doing us all a favor killing DOS.  Perhaps one day you might
>>actually be forced to write a Windows GUI for it!
>>
>>
>>Slate





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