Author: scott farrell
Date: 03:42:21 09/06/03
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On September 06, 2003 at 04:12:39, Lyn Harper wrote: > My daughter bought me a little father's day present second hand from the flea > market today. An old chess program, 'Kasparov's Gambit', in a box with 5 floppy >discs, complete with instructions, etc. > But alas, it won't work in my Win XP system :( How come it didnt work? Did the floppies actually work? ie. not corrupt? Surely with fidling, you can get old DOS win3.1 stuff to run these days. If not, vmware (www.vmware.com) - and you'll definately be able to run it. They have 30 days evals you can re-eval every 30 days. Scott >I did'nt expect it to have any >real playing strength, and only half expected it to work at all. > Any of you long term chess software enthusiasts out there have any idea what >strength it played at? I mean, it dates back to the old 486 machines, round >about the time of CM2000. > I'll keep it for my collection, sort of like an old chess book. > > Lyn
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