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Subject: Re: Compared to the previous Windows, I tip off my hat for Win XP Pro

Author: John Merlino

Date: 08:10:57 12/03/01

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On December 03, 2001 at 05:13:45, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On December 03, 2001 at 02:26:48, pavel wrote:
>
>>I dont remember "exactly" what happened,it happened few months ago, but I do
>>remember having problems with those 2 areas, I didnt mess with it much because I
>>thought cm8000 is not compatible with winxp. Besides I uninstalled winxp
>>anyways.
>
>A few months ago? How is it that you were running XP a few months ago? If you
>were, it must have been beta software. How do you know that whatever problems
>you were seeing were not fixed in the final release?
>
>Also, what's going on with the 30% incompatible software? I know that some
>software is incompatible with XP. I believe MS has released a list of software
>with known compatibility issues. But this is not a very long list (although I'm
>sure it's not complete) and all of the software that I have ever tried running
>on XP has worked flawlessly. It's a big jump from 0% to 30%...
>
>-Tom

As for versions of Chessmaster, the only ones that I have heard that works are
CM7000 and CM8000. I have not heard any reports of CM6000 (and previous) working
AT ALL under XP (even with the "Compatibility Mode" options).

Has anybody gotten CM6000 (or any earlier version) to work on XP?

jm



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