Author: Mark Young
Date: 04:18:12 01/08/99
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On January 08, 1999 at 00:24:05, Milton Zucker wrote: >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... In Windows 98 Rebel 10 will use 120 MB hash with only 128 MB ram. Now for Fritz 5, Junior 5, and Nimzo 98, 99 etc. You need the extra ram to run at 120 MB hash or higher.
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