Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 11:55:26 01/17/00
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On January 17, 2000 at 12:52:36, Len Eisner wrote: >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 Hi! If you don´t do it the program falls apart. Once I didn´t done it and when I should copy some games to CB4 it was impossible. As soon as I did the CD-check, everything worked ok again. Bertil
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