Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 16:05:09 08/16/02
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On August 16, 2002 at 15:38:13, John Merlino wrote: >On August 16, 2002 at 15:21:55, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On August 16, 2002 at 11:53:23, John Merlino wrote: >> >>the spirit of the argument is that if it would have worked for >>NT 4.0 it would work for 2000/xp too!! >> >>obviously we're not personally blaming you. ubisoft wasn't owning >>CM yet when 6000 was released, were they? > >No, they were not the owners. Nor were the people who Ubi Soft bought it from >(Gores Technology group), nor were the people that THEY bought it from (Mattel >Interactive). > >At that time Chessmaster was owned by The Learning Company and was released as a >Mindscape product. This was almost exactly four years ago. Wow, that sounds real weird. Buying a product from someone who doesn't own the rights on it. What happened that in the end ubisoft DID get the rights? >Also, I think we might be discussing at cross purposes. Previous versions of >Chessmaster never supported (and never were tested) on any of the NT-based >versions of Windows (NT4, NT5, Win2K). Windows XP is the first NT-based OS that >Chessmaster is supporting. However, do you not agree that, just because it >supports XP it is not necessarily going to work on OLDER NT-based OSes? > >jm
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