Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 01:39:17 12/18/99
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On December 17, 1999 at 20:33:01, John Merlino wrote: >The development team tells me that the patch for Chessmaster 7000 (version >1.0.6) has been approved and should appear on the website by Monday (possibly >even today depending on how quickly the website guys get to it). They have given >me the relevant portion of the ReadMe file that lists all of the fixes since the >release. > >Note that version 1.0.3 was a patch that you only would have received if you had >try to play on MPlayer. Version 1.0.3 was never available on the Chessmaster >website. Also note the "Late Breaking Changes to the Documentation" section, >most of which was in the release version, but items 10 through 12 are new. > >Enjoy! > >jm John, I'm not sure if you post here just on your own time, or represent your company in an official manner, but it's good to see a presence here for Chessmaster, despite the recent rather abrasive posts of a certain individual. [snip] >*** Late Breaking Changes to the Documentation *** [snip] >1. The Chessmaster team highly recommend running Chessmaster 7000 >with a Chessmaster 7000 CD in the drive at all times. If there is no >Chessmaster CD in the drive, some features will be unavailable unless >you had performed a custom installation and installed everything to >your hard drive. Isn't it a normal practice to just request the user to put the CD in the drive if the information that is being looked for isn't found? >8. When you do a typical install, the sound files for the Josh games >and the tutorials remain on the CDs. Normally, the program will >prompt you for the appropriate CD. If you find yourself playing a >Josh game and there is no sound, the program most likely neglected >to prompt you for the correct CD. Inserting the correct CD will >restore the sound. This is a known problem that will be addressed >in the next update. This paragraph seems to imply that prompting will happen though, which makes me wonder why the caution of point 1 is there in the first place. Dave
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