Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 10:45:11 12/03/99
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On December 03, 1999 at 13:12:51, Steve Coladonato wrote: >On December 03, 1999 at 12:33:54, George wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>Does Chessmaster 7000 run on Windows NT? The Mindscape website has no tech >>specs (that I could find). Amazon's listing of it says it runs on NT. >> >>Thanks, >> >>George > >George, > >Here's a response that I got on 9/9/99 when I asked Mindscape the same question. > >"Our programs are designed to use Direct X, which requires that the video >and sound drivers must be DirectX compatible - that they have been tested by >Microsoft to function correctly with DirectX . Unfortunately at this time >Windows NT does not support DirectX. You may want to check back with our >website periodically for the latest information on future Windows NT >compatibility." > >So as far as I know it doesn't yet run on NT. I have NT Workstation and I run >Fritz5.32 and Shredder 3. > >Steve Microsoft has clearly stated that DirectX current version will not be upgraded to NT. However Windows2000 will have support for the latest DirectX and hopefully it is backward compatible with earlier DirectX versions. I don't remeber. It's all somewhere on Microsofts pages. //Peter
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