Author: John Merlino
Date: 21:51:17 08/15/03
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On August 15, 2003 at 22:39:56, Mike Byrne wrote: >On August 15, 2003 at 21:38:58, John Merlino wrote: >> >>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. You CAN make the program display in a single "window", but the video performance will suffer slightly. Go to your "res" folder under your installation folder and open the USER.INI file. Look for the "App" section and add the line: windowed=1 Note that this is NOT the intended behavior of the program, but it should work fine. However, what you are seeing is NOT the monitor's power going on and off; the program is simply switching resolutions to the 1024x768 mode that it requires. As for the engine, I did say that it was going to be copy protected. I have a feeling that some persistent user (perhaps yourself) will be able to figure out a way around the engine's protection, but it will STILL require the CD at all times. jm
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