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Subject: Re: My first CM7000 run and first crash. Otherwise, the program is very good

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 05:44:07 10/14/99

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On October 14, 1999 at 08:32:36, John R. Menke, Sr. wrote:

>So far, CM7000 seems to be a remarkable mess of bugs in my installation. I've
>reinstalled it 3 times, including both the minimal and typical installations,
>and nothing seems to help.  It is essentially unworkable/unusable on my system,
>at this point, unless I can figure out a fix.  I have emailed their tech support
>twice, but have received no reply.
>
>Here's the error message if I attempt to load a .cmg file into CM7000 that was
>recorded with CM6000. Some such files load OK. Some don't. Have you (or
>anybody?) tried to load any .cmg games with CM7000 that were recorded with
>CM6000 or a prior version? I would be very interested to know! Thanks.  --JRM
>
>Error message when loading .cmg game file into CM7000 that was recorded with
>CM6000
>
>This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the
>problem persists, contact the program vendor.
>
>CHESSMASTER caused an invalid page fault in
>module CHESSMASTER.EXE at 0137:004b665f.
>Registers:
>EAX=00000000 CS=0137 EIP=004b665f EFLGS=00010246
>EBX=0096fc4a SS=013f ESP=0096f450 EBP=0096f454
>ECX=00000003 DS=013f ESI=00008c6e FS=10b7
>EDX=00000000 ES=013f EDI=0096f4ac GS=0000
>Bytes at CS:EIP:
>8b 44 8a 40 8b e5 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc
>Stack dump:
>00000000 0096f4c0 004673ad 03f0c2f8 00000000 00000003 0096fc00 00000001 00000000
>00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000


My advice is just leave it for now and use CM6K, which is better. Wait for the
patches, to me I do not think any reply from Mindscape will give you any relief,
they are not likely to send you a patch untill they know what they stuffed up.
To me it would seem to be a pretty big patch when they do release one.

Just take if off your system, like me not matter how much you wish it to work
sometimes it just ain't gonna happen. I agree with Christophe Theron that they
implemented to many multimedia things for their own good.

Wait for the patch which will take them months to put out then if it still does
not work use the CD as a drink coaster.



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