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Subject: Re: CM7000 is a lemon, SHAME MINDSCAPE, SHAME, From CM No1 Fan

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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