Author: Pete Galati
Date: 20:27:02 10/28/99
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On October 28, 1999 at 22:08:19, Micheal Cummings wrote: >Let me first say that I do not have the program. In the past I have bought Rebel >10 & 9, and have been happy with it and their quality and support of the Rebel >products. > >Now onto the reason for my post. > >I thought Rebel Century was a windows program. Having not paid much attention to >it, and for some reason the Rebel home page takes forever to load on my >computer, I eventually just leave the site before it finishes loading, so I have >read little on it. > >So the information for this product that I was able to obtain has been very >little. I thought it was suppose to be the chesspartner interface and such, I >thought it was suppose to be a fully windows product. > >Even though Rebel is a powerful chess program, I will not buy Rebel century >simply because I decided, that unless Rebel bought out a windows chess program, >Rebel 10 was going to be my last DOS chess program. > >I was going to buy Rebel Century cause I though it was suppose to be a windows >chess program. Luckily I started to pay attention to all this and cancelled my >purchase. > >Nothing against the quaility of Rebel products, just that DOS programs and the >usual boot disks and other changes that always have to be made, I cannot be >bothered anymore in using these kinds of programs. > [...... You don't need to use a boot disc to get into Dos, you can do a couple of things that I can think of, the first isn't quite as good as if you hadn't started Windows at all, but will do the trick: you can go to shut down your computer, but instead of selecting "Shut the Computer Down" you select instead "Restart the Computer in Dos Mode". I do that at least a couple of times a day, it works well. The second thing you can do is when your computer is booting up hit the F8 function key to get the booting menu and that'll let you start into Dos without ever seeing Windows. And if you need some help writing a batch file to help you get from that point to getting Rebel running just speak up and someone will help you do it. But see Tina's reply, as she says, Rebel programs have run quite well in Windows. Or you could buy a Chessbase program, there's nothing wrong with that idea. Pete
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