Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 16:33:54 10/10/99
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On October 10, 1999 at 10:36:31, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On October 10, 1999 at 09:06:23, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >>On October 10, 1999 at 07:46:26, allan johnson wrote: >> >>>On October 10, 1999 at 06:26:45, Keith Kitson wrote: >>> >>>>Michael have you got shares in CM6000 or something...:-)) >>> >>>Keith >>> Are you serious?You clearly haven't read Michael's scathing criticisms >>>of Mindscapes' latest product. >>>Allan >> >>I simply give credit where credit is due. I support Chessmaster (not including >>CM7K) mainly due to its great engine. It took some time for people to realise >>that just because CM does not have the bell and whistles that the other more >>dedicated chess programs have, that for some reason it can only play crap chess. >> >>So when people go out and rubbish the program they can only be talking about its >>features, Some features are great and other program could learn from it. I would >>love the personalities feature to be put into other programs to the scale that >>CM6K has. And a few other things. >> >>It is just a shame that even after all Chessmaster has achieved, that it still >>need to be defended. >> >>They released this product too early, they should have done the beta testing and >>not left it up to the mass market to find faults and report them so they can >>bring out their patches down the line. This is just not good enough and very, >>very pathetic. >> >>Mindscape would have to have the resources and backing that puts it streets >>ahead of any other chess program maker. They have to do better. >> >>All of these views I send to Mindscape in the hope that they will finally >>listen. The mere fact that they say they will bring out an autoplayer in time >>with a patch is proof that this is still a work in progress. They have no right >>to subject the market to this poor service. >> >>Maybe the mass market will put up with this crap. But up until CM5K I did not >>have access to the net, and I would suspect that people will not be able to, or >>even know that there are patches available or soon to come for CM7K. We should >>have a fully working product on the first go and I will keep telling them this. >> >>CM6K had 3 patches, which is 3 too many. >> >>Mindscape should get it right, or keep their product the hell out of the market >>place till they test and make sure there is no crap left. > >Mindscape is going to ship, come hell or high water. They are not gonna risk >missing the Christmas season, no matter how many bugs there might be. > >As an aside, it's kind of ironic that the guy who's really the CM rah-rah fellow >is the only one who reported problems installing CM7K! > >Dave What gets me, if someone who did not know much about computer was in my position, the install went very smoothly, on the outside everything seemed to install like a dream, then the fun comes when trying to run the program. It is strange that 3 out of 4 systems it stuffs up on. And only worked on the old System running Win95 and a whole heap of old driver. Maybe CM7K want to install things its own way and stuff the rest. Merry Christmas to all those unsuspecting kiddies and people who load this program on christmas day only to have their system or just the CM7K program not work. Ho Ho Ho. Only takes one bad experience for people to stop trusting and buying software from a vertain place. I have only ever had a bad experience with one other program, some bible program which had everything you could ask for. I installed it, ran it, it was perfect, search, comparisons of different bibles, interface, a dream. Turned off my system, the next day turned it on, click, and loaded the splash screen then nothing, tried it again, program would not load, so I though well thats great. Onlt then find out I could not load 80% of my other programs, not even get on the net. That was my AMD 266 computer, thank God for the Hewlett Packard restore cd-rom.
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