Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 02:34:42 10/08/99
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On October 08, 1999 at 04:08:18, John R. Menke, Sr. wrote: >Greetings again, > >I was testing CM7000 using games recorded with CM5000 and CM6000. That's part of >the problem. Apparently they are incompatible. CM7000 doesn't know which color >(white or black) is next to move, in some such games. That's apparently why I >couldn't get it to "wake up" and start thinking, because it was the wrong side's >turn to move!? > >I'll note one further bona fide bug: Regarding the VCR controls on the move >list, with a game loaded, click the leftmost button to return to the starting >postion, then click the rightmost button to goto the final position, and it >crashes the system. I haven't seen that kind of thing for a long time. It >reminds me of how the old Sargon and first Chessmaster used to crash my >Commodore 64. It must be very amateurish, un-debugged code. > >My benchmark position took 19 minutes with CM7000 but only 13 minutes with >CM6000. That's enough for me! MC7000 is a lot slower on my system. Adios -- >CM7000 no es mi amigo! It goes... > >My only problema now is that I have uninstalled everything possible but there is >still 9MB of junk hidden somewhere, probably DirectX crap. I've also got a >joystick controller now, but I never wanted one! Oh well, I'll weed it all out >little by little over the coming months, a good reminder not to trust Mindscape >stuff again. I really like CM5000-CM6000, and am sorry (personally >disappointed) that CM7000 is a lemon (in my hands). > >It may work OK for some people. Some are reporting that it does. But there are >also those who, like me, are finding it very buggy. That is the challenge of >software writers, to make their product compatible with the very broad range of >computer equipment in current use. The final statistics are yet to be known, but >chalk me up (and Michael Cummings above) on the negative side. > >--JRM Yep you are right, very hard to trust CM7000 again, and even further Chessmaster products from them. I have never had any trouble before, and I always supported them fully, Well the King engine and the stregnth of it at least. The interface always had some bugs. But if a program burns me this badly once, I am very untrusting to using it again. Let me just say from my experience it is not just the program having a few bugs, all Chessmaster programs have that, but when it start hitting at my core settings and stuffing up important other porgrams that are vital to me and my work then it is enough for me to say stuff Mindscape forever. Chessmaster bugs I can handle as long as they do not interfer with me playing a game of chess. But when it goes beyond the chessmaster program and into my other programs and running my system then well it is just not worth it anymore.
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