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Subject: Re: Old programs in danger of extinction

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 11:30:38 11/17/02

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On November 17, 2002 at 13:25:30, Jose Gonzalbez wrote:

>   Because my CD of Rebel9 doesnt work in my Pentium 4 i finally decided to
>buy the last Rebel version, but what can i do with other "historical" programs
>like the MChess of Marty Hirsch?. MChess only displays a security error "This
>program is not authorized on this disk". Obviously, I changed my PC since I
>originally installed MChess a lot of years ago... Is there a way to reinstalled
>the program in my new computer?
>  Other programs that doesnt work in my system (sigh...): Powerchess
>(Kittinger's WChess), Rex, Mirage...

I have a few old chess programs kicking around; as some of these programs used,
in retrospect, highly dubious and fragile copy-protection mechanisms - special
sectors written to the hard disk, 'key files' on floppy disk not visible to
normal installations of DOS and so on - it's quite possible they will not work
on modern machines and OSes. (I can't test as I moved to Linux).

Anyway, things move on. I was amused by this post

http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/nolot/nolot1.txt

No '... weeks or months ...' now!

Alastair



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