Author: Len Eisner
Date: 09:52:36 01/17/00
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On January 17, 2000 at 12:26:15, Don Prohaska wrote: >On January 17, 2000 at 11:47:13, Len Eisner wrote: > >>On January 17, 2000 at 10:05:39, John R. Menke, Sr. wrote: >> >>>Is this the end of exchangable ChessBase engines? >>> >>>I understand that Fritz 6 requires the Fritz 6 CD, and the Fritz 6 engine cannot >>>be used without it. Right? For example if I want to install the Fritz 6 engine >>>to work with my already existing Hiarcs 7.32 installation, it wouldn't work. >>>Right? Or if it works, it would keep asking me to insert the Fritz 6 CD, right? >>> >>>--JRM >> >>The good news is you can use other Chessbase engines with Fritz 6 interface. I >>use Junior 6 and Hiarcs 7.32 without any problem. Fritz 6 asked me for the >>Hiarcs and Junior CDs the first time I tried to load the engines, and that was >>it. It never asked for those CDs again. >> >>The bad news is Fritz 6 seems to have a bug that makes it ask for the Fritz 6 CD >>from time to time for no particular reason. It’s not supposed to have this kind >>of copy protection. Hopefully, the soon-to-be-released patch will fix this. >> >>Len > >My experience is, that after the first ask for CD, you don't need to put it in >again, even if it asks for it. Just cancel, and if it reacts like mine, it goes >into the program and does everything ok. But how do you know it’s OK? Perhaps the program plays differently, or it turns off some features, or who know what. It annoys me that I have to make assumptions about the affects of this strange behavior. Len
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