Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 00:58:42 10/08/99
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On October 07, 1999 at 23:42:56, Micheal Cummings wrote: >Install, Interface, Bugs - CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > >Most of your problems posted in another post below are valid ones, and the >things that shits me the most is that it does change drivers and it does not >give you the option to not install them. It stuffs up some of my other programs, >which I cannot sacrafice to keep this crappy CM program on my system > >For the first time I have now uninstalled this program and put back all my >current drivers. It stayed on my system for a total of 4 hours. > >I put it on my PII 450 and it runs slower than CM6K. Which is crap. > >I am unable to return this piece of crap, I am unable cause once you open the cd >the stores where I live will not take it back unless it does not work (with all >the bugs, even worse than CM6K ever was, I am now stuck with it till Mindscape >get around to putting out their usual stuff up patches to fix this) >I wonder with all these bugs if I do not have a case to say that the program is >faulty. > >I have already emailed mindscape with all the gripes and things I found a total >disgrace. > >This has to be one of their worst put together programs they have ever put out >on the market. > >With no new engine, and the crap install, the bugs. I think this program is >nothing more than ripping off the mass market. Rahter than an improvement. > >Do not bother to ask me about the database or opening book editor, cause my >system seem to crash when I open these things up. Or if I do get to play with >them for a minute my computer crashes and freezes when I click on things. > >Oh I forgot to add, that my computer froze on 14 occasions while playing with >this masterpice of computer programming which I had no other alternative than to >reboot my bloody computer 14 times. > >SHAME MINDSCAPE, SHAME > >I have never been one to have software problems on this large scale of stuff >ups. My system has been able to run games and software fault free where as my >freinds systems have crashed. > >And to add insult to injury I loaded this on a relative computer and spent the >next 4 hours finding and installing old drivers and software that this program >stuffed. > >List of programs that did not work on my system and my Friends after installing >CM7000 (there was other, but once these programs did not work, then you know >something is wrong) > >Lotus Organizer >Quicken Accounting >MYOB >Most of my Card games - Pretty Good Solitaire 99, Solsuite 2000, and just about >every other game that used direct X and other multimedia driver and software >that CM7000 decided to load over. > >Even with patches, I am unlikely to load CM7000 again, and even future >Chessmaster programs. > >My motto is, you stuff up my system on a grand scale like this, I never use your >program again, EVER. > >CM6000 will be my last Chessmaster program loaded. I am not willing to take the >risk or the time in fixing up my system again. It is not worth it. > >To say I am pissed is a large understatement. VERY LARGE This sounds really awful. Are you 100% sure that your setup wasn't slightly hosed to begin with? Dave
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