Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 09:24:22 10/08/99
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On October 08, 1999 at 05:34:42, Micheal Cummings wrote: >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. IIRC, this happens every time CM releases a new version. There's always a DirectX being installed. There's always some video drivers getting clobbered. There's always a pile of people (not just here, also people that I speak to in person) who complain that it's quite broken. But every year, people buy the next CM... so Mindscape must be doing something right. Dave
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