Author: Lin Harper
Date: 03:54:45 09/15/05
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On September 15, 2005 at 05:46:26, Lin Harper wrote: > I bought a software chess program at a flea market a few years ago, called >"Kasparov's Gambit". On the side of the box the age of the product is revealed. >Required hardware: 386...16MHz or faster > 640K Base RAM > 2 MB EMS free > MS DOS 5 or higher > Does anyone know if this can be installed into a Windows machine via a DOS > window? I'm using WinXP and don't want to try until I get an opinion from >someone here who can cast their memory that far back. The program comes in a set >of 5 x 1.44mb floppies. It's in good original condition with the owner's manual. > It might actually be worth keeping as an investment. :) > regards > Lin Just to respond to my own post, I tried just now to install the program on a friend's slower comp with Win98. That OS would reboot in DOS mode, and the program looked like installing, but between discs 1 and 2, it started giving trouble. It rebooted itself, then froze, and I had to switch the comp off at the wall. So for now I wait to hear what others might have to say. L
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