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Subject: Re: Majestic /Pocket PC

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 19:39:56 08/15/03

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On August 15, 2003 at 21:38:58, John Merlino wrote:

>On August 15, 2003 at 19:31:55, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>Amazon.com (US) is selling the version of Majestic Chess (W-Chess engine by
>>Kittinger) with free Pocket PC verson included .so far works perfectly on my
>>"old" Ipaq 3160" . One tough little critter.  Can't get the engine working under
>>Arena or F* yet ...
>>
>>btw It arrived today :)
>>
>>also general question - Majestic does not really seem like a windows program
>>--takes up the whole screen like a DOS program, screen power flick on and off
>>etc  - anyway to run this a real Windows "window".
>
>Glad you're liking it so far.
>
>Majestic Chess uses DirectX to take up your entire screen, like almost all
>graphical games available for the PC.
>
>jm

Sorry John , I 'm not gamer in that sense - this is the first "new" program that
ever did that and I do not particulary care for it.  Even CM9K use directx and
did not gobble up my whole screen and flick the power off on the monitor for a
split second.  I simply want the chess engine.  So far, I can play oy in Fritz 8
(!good) but only one ply search.  The copy proctection seems to be over kill -
it requires the CD  everytime, the engine won't run at all in F8, unless the
Majestic program is started and I still  have to pass a code (which I have not
figured out yet)to the engine so it plays more then 1 ply deep in Fritz.

My frustration level is quite high with it and at this point -- it looks like it
is going back.



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