Author: John Merlino
Date: 17:55:11 11/26/01
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On November 26, 2001 at 20:40:07, Anthony Boynes wrote: >On November 26, 2001 at 17:39:04, John Merlino wrote: > >>However, OFFICIALLY Chessmaster 8000 DOES NOT SUPPORT Windows XP. The next >>version of Chessmaster will support XP, but will not support 2000/NT (as per the >>Ubi Soft policy). >> >>jm > > >I must say that dropping support for Windows 2000 and NT is stupid. Not all of >us are going to rush out and install a new OS simply because it is there. Not a >very good way to keep your customer base. This is the policy of many entertainment software companies. The two main problems are: 1) Windows 2000/NT are not designed for entertainment software. When Chessmaster 8000 was released, the most recent version of DirectX was v7.0a. This version would not even install on Windows 2000/NT (resulting in many customer e-mails/complaints from people who did not read the system requirements). 2) Cost (of course). Fully testing a program as vast and complex as Chessmaster on Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT was just not feasible. The next version of Chessmaster is probably only going to support 98/ME/XP. Note that I left out Windows 95 (for those of you still running that version). The reason for that is that Microsoft is no longer supporting Win95 (so why should we?). However, the program will PROBABLY work fine on Win95. No guarantees though.... jm
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