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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 8000 and VMWARE?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 08:14:43 11/06/01

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On November 05, 2001 at 11:56:41, John Merlino wrote:

>On November 04, 2001 at 00:05:14, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote:
>
>>OK, being a stubborn cuss, I just tried to install Chessmaster 8000 in a Win98
>>box running inside VMWARE. It refused to install with the message:
>>  - A Debugger has been detected
>>    unload the debugger and try again.
>>
>>This is the first time I've seen *any* program do this in VMWARE. I got onto the
>>VMWARE news group and others have seen the same thing.
>>
>>What is causing this? Is it an attempt to prevent breaking copy protection?
>>Is there any way to use this program with VMware?
>>
>>thanks
>>Betsy
>
>You got me in a good mood, and hopefully I won't get reprimanded for saying
>this:
>


You should not be reprimanded.  You should be given a raise for being honest,
genuinely helpful, and acting in the best interest of the customer!


>This is our stupid copy-protection scheme that is built into the installer
>doesn't really seem to accomplish anything useful. You cannot run the
>installation program with VMWARE (and several developer-type programs, such as
>MSVC) running.
>
>If you can, just disable VMWARE for the installation. After that, you can run
>the program just fine even with VMWARE running.
>
>jm



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