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Subject: Re: Will not change my computer for pop chess program!

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 03:57:28 08/16/02

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On August 15, 2002 at 14:01:41, John Merlino wrote:

This is nonsense John, NT4 was released in 1995, within 6
months after windows95.

win2000 and XP are having a bit newer NT kernel, that's all.

Obviously i couldn't use these CM versions either as i used NT.

Everything that works on NT also works on 2000,XP. Very easy.

>On August 15, 2002 at 01:53:19, Stuzzi Kadent wrote:
>
>>I could not run CM6000 successfully on either 2000 or XP. Since the 9x systems
>>are out of the question for my usage- and there are already more powerful and
>>flexible engines on the market- I personally cannot yet take Chessmaster fully
>>seriously. I do not like the proprietary closed feeling of its windowing and
>>data system either. Though I could be mistaken about that- the main point is
>>that I do not think Ubisoft is trying hard enough with each new release to sort
>>matters like these.
>
>Chessmaster 6000 was released over one year before Windows 2000 and over three
>years before Windows XP. Why would you assume that it would work on operating
>systems that didn't exist before it was released?
>
>Chessmaster 8000 was released before Windows XP was released, and Mattel
>Interactive did not support Windows 2000/NT with any of their games....
>
>Chessmaster 9000 will support Windows XP.
>
>If you don't like the interface, that's fine. But your first sentence is not a
>valid complaint.
>
>jm



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