Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 11:59:05 08/16/03
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On August 16, 2003 at 00:51:17, John Merlino wrote: >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 that tip works very well ....completely resizeable ....thanks... > >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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