Author: Rafael Vasquez
Date: 07:58:14 09/15/05
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Lin, I had the Original Diskettes too but later I bought a CD which bundled Kasparov's Gambit and Bridge II This version of Kasparov's Gambit was patched to solve some problems. At that time I had a Dual Booting system with DOS and Win98SE I used System Commander. Rafael On September 15, 2005 at 06:54:45, Lin Harper wrote: >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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