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Subject: Re: Is there a way to use Fritz 8008 vs 80023 in same folder?

Author: F. Huber

Date: 09:42:28 12/05/03

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On December 05, 2003 at 09:36:01, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:

>On December 04, 2003 at 00:36:53, Brian Katz wrote:
>
>>Is there anyway to use Fritz 8.0.0.8 vs 8.0.0.23 in the same Engine folder and
>>know which engine is which?
>>You can place both engines in the same folder, but they both show up as just
>>Fritz 8. At least with the old Fritz 6 upgrades, the new engine would become
>>Fritz 6 and the old engine would stay in the engine folder with the name
>>converted to Fritz 6 Old.
>>
>>At least you could then play both engines against one another in the same PC.
>>
>>Any info would be welcome.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Brian
>
>I guess you can. I did it for version 6.
>You have to edit the engine with a hex editor and replace the internal name with
>a new string: say "Fritz 8" in "Fritz 8a" and rename the eng file in a similar
>fashion.
>
>I did it for Fritz 6, but I don't have Fritz 8 so I can't do it for you.


Hi,

NO - this changing of the internal name is no longer possible (since Fritz 7,
I think) - after every manipulation of the name or version number the engine
doesn´t load any more.

(Of course there´s a way to override this, but that would need some more
´patching´ of internal routines - so I cannot publish it here!)

Regards,
Franz.



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