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Subject: Re: Will Chessmaster 5500 work on Win NT 4.0??

Author: Lonnie Cook

Date: 20:49:29 02/05/00

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On February 05, 2000 at 19:11:18, Jason Gwardiak wrote:

>Help!  I just bought Chessmaster 5500 and then downloaded the patch from
>Chessamster.com.  I thought those would work together to make the program run on
>Win NT 4.0, but they didn't.  The install went well and the game started, but I
>moved one pawn and then got the hourglass forever...
>Is there anything I can do?????  If not, is there a cool program for NT?

ChessMaster 5500 patch 1 (executable dated 25/11/97)

I got this from KK links on Gambitsoft.com

I myself ran CM5K on NT 4 BUT I had to edit the EXE fiel, forgot the procedure
though but If u search the Net or NEwsgroups u will find it.

Also these programs will run under NT4:

Komputer Korner's List of Chess programs that run under WIN NT - version 25
Arasan
Bookup 1.53 ,
CA Chess Openings 1.0, CA Strategy 1.0
CB6 with dongle runs
CB7 without dongle runs
CB DEMO program
Championship Chess 1.0
Chenard,
ChessAcademy 3.0 Win NT 4 version
Chess Assistant 2.02 and 3.02 for Windows
ChessBase Light and the CM5000 will run under WIN NT 4 with a little
tweaking.
Chessica
ChessMaster 5500 patch 1 (executable dated 25/11/97)
Chess Mentor 1.5
Chess Partner 4.0
Corel Chess
Crafty,
DBSCHESS runs in the DOS prompt of WIN NT 4.0
Diep
Encyclopedia of Middlegames by CA
Essentia
Extreme Chess

Fritz 2, and Fritz 4.01 and Fritz 5 will ( I know this for a fact as i ran ver
5)

Genius 3
Genius 4 will run under WIN NT 4 but you have to insert the disk
each time
and it takes 10 minutes each time to overcome the copy protection.
Genius 5 with Genius WIN NT patch will run
Gnuchess,
Hiarcs 6 will run under WIN NT 4 but you have to install it under
DOS by booting up under DOS.
Junior 5
Knightmoves
M-Chess Pro 7.1 and 8 will run under WIN NT 4, but you have to
install it
from the DOS prompt.
Nero
NIC 3 and Rebel Decade
Nimzo 99
Shredder
Schach Champ,
Schiller Teaches Chess
SSEChess
Studies 2.0 by CA
Tascbase 2.0 runs under WIN NT if you first install to WIN95 on a
separate partition and then copy the directory to the WIN NT
partition
and then rename the drives in the Tascbase.ini file.
Tasc Chess Tutor
The Crazy Bishop
The software program from the Chessmasternetwork
Virtual Chess 2
Winboard
Y Chess
Zarkov 4.3 (Masterchess 98)

Best bet is to get Fritz6 and then all u have to do is get various engines that
run through the interface ... u get various playing styles and excellent
features





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