Author: Harald Faber
Date: 22:12:20 01/04/00
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On January 03, 2000 at 15:44:51, John Merlino wrote: >>>I tell them everything that happens here regarding Chessmaster, and I come here >>>almost every day. The team are quite aware of this board and definitely listen >>>to everything I tell them. Unfortunately, as many people here have pointed out, >>>the people who post on this board are a very small minority of the people who >>>buy Chessmaster. So just because it seems like an obviously required feature to >>>somebody here, it is possible that the TYPICAL purchaser of Chessmaster couldn't >>>care less about it. >>> >>>That's just a generalization, but I'm sure you understand. >>> >>>jm >> >>Oops, that makes me fear that CM8000 wil contain some AVIs, maybe with some >>cheerleaders, or contain some anthems that are played for the winner...and so >>on. Uh, bloody mass market. > >Don't laugh. CM7000 had 3 AVIs (one intro, two of Josh) for a total of 23 megs. >I, personally, didn't like the videos of Josh at all. As for the "anthems", the >development team laughed when I told them that, because it was actually brought >up in the brainstorming session this year! Hehehe. :-))) Better take some AVIs of nice Cheerleaders. ;-) Keep in mind it is for the mass market. ;-) >Of course, that doesn't mean that >they're going to do it. The brainstorming session is just blue sky stuff -- >let's get every idea we can think of out on the table.... Wish I could tell you >more, but I don't want to get anybody's hopes (or fears) up. ;-) >jm I guess the auto232 will keep out for a while. I haven't analyzed the mass market (how could I?), in general in the computer chess scene auto232-support is a must. Concerning mass market I don't know. But I wonder if this would be a big task to implement auto232.
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