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Subject: Re: My Opinion on Rebel Century

Author: walter irvin

Date: 18:17:59 10/29/99

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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.
>
>Next time I will pay more attention to these things and not just assume.
>
>I must say that after my big let down with CM7K I was looking forward to finally
>getting a windows version of my second favorite program.
>
>Looks like this Christmas and this whole year has been a let down for me.
>
>I think I might see if I can get Fritz 6 for Christmas. Even though upset with
>Rebel for not being a windows program. I will not tell them off like I did
>Mindscape, simply cause being a DOS program does not give me cause to tell off
>Rebel. But I am still unpset that Rebel Century is not what I first thought.
>
>Looking at other posts I am not the only one who thought it was a windows chess
>program. So why all this confusion ?

me and you are opposite i am buying rebel century because it is a dos program .i
dont like windows period , i only tolerate it .



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