Author: John R. Menke, Sr.
Date: 14:38:47 01/03/00
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On January 03, 2000 at 15:22:38, John Merlino wrote: >On January 03, 2000 at 13:07:50, John R. Menke, Sr. wrote: > >>New Chessmaster 7000 patch (an updated version of 1.0.6) >> >>TLC tech support informed me via email this morning (1/3/00) that the >>cm7k106.exe patch at www.chessmaster.com has now been updated to work properly >>on Windows 95 machines. The 'SHELL32DLL:SHGetSpecialFolderPathA' error message >>problem has presumably been fixed, however I can't test it anymore because I >>have uninstalled CM7000 and do not plan to reinstall it on my old Windows 95 >>machine. I note that there is no mention of this update at the Chessmaster site, >>and by all outward appearances it is identical to the former patch (same size >>and version number), but I confirmed with a file comparison utility that it is >>indeed non-identical to the former patch. >> >>--JRM >>a.k.a. Honest Abe, a.k.a. Johnny Bob, mailto: ccr7@usa.net >>My Web Site: http://home.talkcity.com/CerfSt/jbob99/ >>My Web Forum: http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb935816 > >The development team tells me that it actually had nothing to do with Windows >95. It was actually an problem with machines that had a version of Internet >Explorer that was less than 4.0. I don't know why there is no actual mention of >it on the website; there certainly SHOULD be. > >jm I run Internet Explorer 5.0 so that couldn't have been my problem. TLC tech support only mentioned a Windows 95 issue in their emails to me (copy forwarded to you via email). I think they should use a new version number, otherwise there will be two different versions of 1.0.6 floating around and no easy way to tell them apart. --JRM
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