Author: Milton Zucker
Date: 21:24:05 01/07/99
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On January 07, 1999 at 23:16:16, Len Eisner wrote: >On January 07, 1999 at 17:46:53, Milton Zucker wrote: > >> I would be more than happy to volunteer. I am one of the folks who has been >>having problems getting HIARCS 7 to work with the -x option. I have a Dell >>Desktop Computer, with a Pentium II 450MHz processor and 256 megabytes of ram. >>My operating system is Windows 98. >> I would also like to add my sincere thanks to Steve of ICD and the HIARCS team >>for addressing this problem. ...Milton Zucker... > >Milton, > >Do you have any trouble running Fritz.32, Junior 5, or any other chess program >on your Dell 450/256MB system? Also, do you have the 16MB TNT video card? If >yes, how does it perform with chess programs? > >One more question. Is there any performance disadvantage to having 256MB of >RAM? > >Len Hi Len, I have the video card you refer to and it works fine with my programs. My chess programs other than Hiarcs 7 (i.e., Genius 5, MchessPro 8, Chessmaster 6000, Junior 5, Rebel 10) run fine on this computer. There are only two minor quirks - (1) In order to run Rebel with maximum hash (120 meg) I must launch it from Windows 98. However, this only costs it about 2 rating points on the program's bench test as compared to running the program from the dos prompt in safe mode, and (2) For some reason, I cannot get sound from Junior 5, other than the sound of pieces moving (i.e, no music, talking, etc.). However, I am not convinced that this 2nd quirk is the fault of the computer. I may not have set up the program properly, and since this is not an important feature for me, I have not spent alot of time trying to make it work. As for the 256 megabytes of ram, this is a definite advantage in running Rebel. If I had only 128 megabytes of memory, I could not run Rebel with 120 megabytes of hash because of the memory needed by the Windows operating system. ...Milton...
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