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Subject: Re: Help!: My Chessmaster 7000 is incompatible with Windows XP

Author: John Merlino

Date: 08:07:58 12/10/01

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On December 10, 2001 at 03:18:14, David Zheng wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>I recently acquired Windows XP (Home Edition) on my computer and found it to be
>incompatible with many of the old programs that used to be OK with Windows
>98.  Most annoying of all is that I can no longer run Chessmaster 7000.
>
>Even when I used the Program Compatibility Wizard to set the computer mode to
>Windows 98, my Chessmaster 7000 still crashes every time when I use it.  Like
>all the Microsoft operating systems that I have experienced, they are extremely
>unstable and buggy when they first came out.
>
>Does anyone here have a similar problem with Windows XP or happen to know how to
>fix my problem?  I have asked Microsoft twice about it but they did not bother
>to give me a response.
>
>Anyone who has computer chess programs and is thinking about switching to
>Windows XP, please be aware!
>
>Greetings.
>
>
>David

At what point does the program crash? What is the program doing when it crashes?
Does it have several places where it can crash, or only one?

jm



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