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Subject: Re: Making back up copy of cm8000

Author: John Pahl

Date: 11:31:04 01/01/02

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This should work great for me, thanks!

You sure know alot about CM. I see it say's you had a hand in it.
Just what do you have to do with it, some of the programing?
Was just wondering.
In the back of my cm book in the credit's I do not see your name listed, maybe
it should be. :-)
You sure have help me out.
Once again, thanks alot.....

JP

On January 01, 2002 at 13:18:23, John Merlino wrote:

>On January 01, 2002 at 03:19:31, John Pahl wrote:
>
>>I have tried to make copys of CM8000 with my cd burner and it comes up with some
>>file missing message.
>>
>>I would like to make a copy for my own use. My son age six uses CM and has to
>>switch from disk one to disk two. In having to do this so often I could see one
>>getting scratch.
>>If I could make copys for him to use it would not matter if something would
>>happen to the disk's
>>
>>Can a back up copy be made?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Happy New Year!
>>JP
>
>Unfortunately, you may not be able to make a backup copy of the CD. CD #1 has a
>copy-protection scheme burnt onto it; CD #2 does not. So, if you are concerned
>about too much disc-switching, here's what I suggest:
>
>-- If you did not perform the full installation, then COPY the file that is on
>CD #2 called TUTORIAL.DAT to your Chessmaster 8000 folder. This will make it so
>you never need CD #2 again, and you will only need one of the CDs to start up
>the program.
>However, this is a very large file (over 300MB), so make sure you have the free
>disc space first. Chessmaster 8000 needs about 100MB of FREE space to play some
>of the tutorial audio, so don't use up too much of your free space.
>
>-- You can also start the Chessmaster program with EITHER CD in the drive. This
>means that, if you have done the full installation on both machines that you
>intend to run the program on, you can have CD #1 for use in one machine and CD
>#2 for the other.
>
>Hopefully, this will help.
>
>jm



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