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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 8000 and Windows XP

Author: John Merlino

Date: 11:45:30 06/23/02

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On June 23, 2002 at 12:17:30, Steven J. Brann wrote:

>On June 23, 2002 at 10:58:39, D Ridge wrote:
>
>>Hi There,
>>
>>Can anyone confirm that CM8000 works on XP? I noticed the site features list
>>says Windows 95/98.
>>
>>Thanks David
>
>David,
>
>I can get it to run under XP but there are issues.  First, the thematic or
>spoken sound does not work. Simple sounds will work. The "copy contents" option
>from the thinking lines analysis screen that is supposed to go to the windows
>clipboard does not work. When I attempt to paste I get nothing or some garbage.
>I sometimes get crashes too but I run it with the Win98 modifier in the
>properties of the icon used to invoke the program from the desktop.  That seemed
>to help a little and my crashes are less frequent now.
>
>John Merlino is aware of these issues and I'm assuming that CM9000 will not have
>these problems as it is supposed to be XP compatible.
>
>Some people say it works fine under XP in all regards.  Some can't get it to
>work at all.  I have the problems listed above.
>
>Steve

Unfortunately, nobody else has reported either of the problems that you mention
above, nor have they come up during the development/testing of CM9000. All of
the more commonly reported XP issues (blank menus, the rated game bug, etc.)
have been fixed for CM9000, though.

jm



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