Author: John R. Menke, Sr.
Date: 11:25:01 10/08/99
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CM7000 (itself) appeared to uninstall OK, but not the other things the CM7K CD put on my system...DirectX and Quicktime. I have now e-mailed help@tlcsupport.com for advice on removing DirectX from my system. It is listed in Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs in my Windows 95 but won't uninstall. Attempting to do so only brings up a little dialog box offering the option to activate/deactivate the DirectX drivers, but not to uninstall it. If anybody knows how to uninstall DirectX I would appreciate the tip/reference! --JRM On October 07, 1999 at 17:27:41, John R. Menke, Sr. wrote: >Greetings, > >I just received & installed CM7000, and my early impressions are negative. I >don't like the new design, and I'm finding a host of apparent bugs. I may keep >it for a few days then return it for a refund, and go back to the more reliable >CM6000. In the meantime, I'll try to solve a few of its problems. > >For example in the gameroom I can't get it to wake up and think when a defined >personality has the black pieces. CTRL-W (the wake up command) doesn't work. >And if I try to move the black pieces manually, it keeps telling me that I can't >move opponent's pieces!? Switching sides or flipping the board apparently does >no good. Has anybody solved this problem yet, or am I overlooking something?! > >There is also an apparent mixup when switching sides and/or flipping the board. >It forgets whose turn it is to move and lets the same side move twice, or am I >just confused?! > >I did the minimum installation, which was supposed to take only about 19MB of >hard drive space. However by just following the directions on screen, accepting >only what it said was required, it put 55MB of stuff on my hard drive. It put >on something called Quicktime and DirectX, and even changed my video drivers. >Wow! I'll certainly have to get rid of most of that...if I keep it. Space is >fairly valuable on my 512MB hard drive. > >Although not thoroughly tested, the CM7000 chess engine appears to run quite a >bit slower on my system (AMD5x86 133MHz 64MB RAM), only about half as fast as >CM6000. Unless that problem is solved pronto, that alone is enough reason to >return it. With CM6000 I can usually reset my computer system to optimize the >running speed, a technique that also works with Fritz 5.32 and Hiarcs 7.32, but >that doesn't seem to affect CM7000. > >I use 800x600 video resolution so I loaded that size CM7000 layout, but some of >the screens are the wrong size for that resolution. > >It has no resave/replace provision. So if I try to save the same game to disk >again, it keeps adding a .cmg appendage each time. After a few resaves, the >name gets pretty darned long with all those ".cmg" extensions on the end!? > >I admit that I don't adapt to new things quickly or easily, so maybe I'm being >overcritical and blockheaded here. I would welcome if anybody can straighten me >out on some of the above points. > >--JRM
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