Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:17:19 12/06/01
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I too have switched to XP (from Win98se) and am sad that I cannot use Century -- not version 3, which I already own, or version 4, which now makes no sense to buy. I suspect there are many other people in the same boat. On December 06, 2001 at 12:20:10, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Dear Ed: >I have seen some adds about Rebel Century 4 where it is simply stated that the >program is not XP compatible. Not that it will be compatible or could be >compatible in a near future, but just "not compatible" . I understand from that >sentence you gave up the effort. How is that possible? XP is windows and windows >is the thing by now, like it or not. I upgrade to XP to get a better OS and so >is doing lot of people, including those that like to talk of how bad a guy Bill >has been. Surely people here in CCc is emigrating one by one to XP. We like to >talk of the old good days of DOS and we like to talk of Linux, but we stay stuck >with windows because we have hundreds of programs written in that code and so >on. >So, what I would like to see in your add is something like "we are working on >that, Century 4 will run in XP soon". >I repeat: I just cannot believe you could just drop the thing. I had thought in >purchasing it the same and run it in my old Armada 266 Mhz, but i changed my >mind and I will not. Why should I get an old and slow computer from a closet >just to play century? >So I say: Century 4 is not compatible with my list of chess purchases for the >time being. >My very best and sad regards >fernando
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