Author: Alex
Date: 20:37:44 09/16/05
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On September 15, 2005 at 10:58:14, Rafael Vasquez wrote: >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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