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

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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