Author: Terry Giles
Date: 04:38:22 11/11/05
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On November 11, 2005 at 02:59:00, Robert Hollay wrote: > Last night I've searched for some freeware chess programs. There were some >references to abandonware versions of Chessmaster. > Versions 2000 - 3000 are freely downloadable from some sites (they are >allegedly abandonware), also there is Chessmaster 4000 for MAC and even for >Windows. But there are long debates about CM4000 not working on WindowsXP. > On the Chessmaster site there is nothing about this, only versions >8000, 9000 and 10th are mentioned. > Is it true that the old versions are abandonware and freely distributable? > Which versions exactly? > Can CM4000 run on WindowsXP? > >TIA, Robert Hi Robert, I think you'll find that only CM2000 and CM2100 are "officially" abandonware and as such legally OK to download for free. As to whether CM4000 will run on Windows XP, I don't know, but I do know that it wasn't written to run on such an OS. Annoyingly UBI soft's website appears to have abandoned support for CM9000, but oddly still supports CM8000. The CM9000 support link throws you back to the CM10th page! Terry
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