Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 15:41:34 12/21/99
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On December 21, 1999 at 12:56:12, John R. Menke, Sr. wrote: >I am seeing the same reports on rgcc. The patch works fine for some people but >not for others. It is the same situation as with the original software. It works >fine for some people but not for others. Obviously the CM7000 development/patch >team is incapable of making it work right for everyone, and they have only a >limited ability to test & debug their stuff on a wide variety of systems. As >for the relative percentages, I don't know, but the proportion of people >reporting "not working" seems significant. > >In response to some other posts above: Yes, the CM7000 CD was in the drive when >I tried to run the patch. Yes, I have a SHELL32.DLL file, in c:\windows\system >(as I said in my original post). I'm running Windows 95. And I have exactly the >same setup for CM6000, and its patch worked fine, so it is not something >inherently wrong with my system. > >To top it all off, my browser (Internet Explorer 5) is now reporting errors on >the www.chessmaster.com web site, not fatal ones, but certain items thereon >aren't properly defined or linked in html code. Some people may not see these >error reports if they have their browser set to ignore them. My browser is set >to report all such errors, but then goes ahead and displays the web page as best >as possible. Thus unfortunately I get the overall impression that >Chessmaster/TLC is now being run by people who just don't know what they're >doing technical-wise. I'm honestly starting to feel sorry for them, but it >looks like they just don't have what it takes. > >I'm not too disappointed overall as the recent development of Fritz 6, Fritz 6 >Light, and Rebel-Tiger is keeping the cauldron stirred in proper fashion. >Chessmaster is just not in the same avant-garde league anymore, although I'll >continue to use CM6000, which remains a fine program. > On their updated wed page since they changed it, I get a whole heap of script errors coming up all the time. I have IE4. When they had the old web pages before they added all the new stuff, things were working fine. And I am starting to agree with you about the technical side from them. Maybe they are trying to take advantage of all the new technology out there. But they should realise that not all the new stuff works great for all people. I have Win98, updated drivers for video and sound. So I do not know whether the stuff they are trying to put on my computer is old incompatable stuff. But since people with older system are reporting the same story as I am. I just think they test and program using limited resources and then dump what they have on us. My main system is standard, with all pretty much well know drivers, nothhing exotic, nothing strange. Maybe they have the strange stuff
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