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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 8000 and VMWARE?

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 23:59:29 11/06/01

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On November 06, 2001 at 17:07:57, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote:

>On November 05, 2001 at 11:56:41, John Merlino wrote:
> 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.
>
>Sigh, well, thanks for confirming it. Since Windows 98 is running under VMWare,
>I can't disable VMware without losing the OS.
>
>Dang, I sure wish I knew why CM8k works on some Win2k installations but not
>others; if there was anything I could tweak...running Windows XP is not an
>option for me at this time. CM7000 *won't* work on Win2k, right?
>

When you say tournament, do you mean playing in a tournament or just play a
rated game in the tournament room?
I tested the later on a W2K laptop with the personality Ben and it sure played
like a beginner.
I have upgradet W2K with the service pack 2.

There is a trick in this service pack to let a program belive that you are
running Win95. Have tried this?
You can read about the trick here:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q279/7/92.ASP

Odd Gunnar



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