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Subject: Re: Comet under Fritz 5.32 on WinNT 4 Workstation SP3

Author: Phil Dixon

Date: 18:58:33 03/04/99

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On March 04, 1999 at 08:31:44, Steve Coladonato wrote:

>On March 03, 1999 at 19:42:53, Phil Dixon wrote:
>
>>On March 03, 1999 at 11:01:35, Steve Coladonato wrote:
>>
>>>I'm having a problem with the Comet engines when trying to analyze games.  As
>>>soon as the "analyze" button is clicked in the database window, a Dr. Watson
>>>error is generated and Fritz 5.32 is shutdown.  I have this problem with
>>>CometA97, A98, and B00.  Essentially all versions of the 32bit Comet engine.
>>>The other engines run fine (Exchess, Crafty, Doctor?).  Is anyone else
>>>experiencing a similar problem?
>>>
>>>Steve
>>Comet A96 works fine for me but when I downloaded A98 from ChessBase, it refused
>>to accept a perfectly legal move.  Second download, same thing.  I scrapped it
>>and use A96.
>>
>>Phil
>I checked the ChessBase site but the only Comet engine currently available is
>B00.  Cometa96 is available for download but it is the DOS version.  Fritz 5.32
>is my first copy of Fritz so I don't have access to any of the older engines
>although prior to 5.32 they would probably have been 16bit engines anyway.  A97
>came on the CD.  Do you have any idea where I could get the 32bit eng and dll
>files for A96?
>
>I assume you are also running NT.  I know that 95/98 are the platforms of
>choice, but it seems that some software has hard coded hooks into some of the OS
>features and because of this, ports to NT don't always work.
>
>Steve
Comet A 96 came on the Fritz 5.32 CD.  I run under Windows 95.

Phil



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