Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 10:58:16 12/03/99
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On December 03, 1999 at 13:45:11, Peter Fendrich wrote: >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 Has Microsoft produced anything that is backward compatible ;)
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