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Subject: Re: Fritz two many engines nightmare

Author: CLiebert

Date: 07:46:12 02/12/00

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On February 12, 2000 at 09:43:15, Laurence Chen wrote:

>On February 12, 2000 at 02:58:40, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>
>>On one of my cel 433's during a nunn 1 match with LG2000V2,
>>LG2000 made an illegal move. So after the match shut down,
>>I was able to get back into Fritz or Junior but was unable
>>to load the Junior 61 which is 6a engine. Everytime I tried
>>to load it my computer locked up. Remember I do have 61 or 6a
>>also running on another identical computer.
>>
>>So everytime it locked I had to switch off and re-start.
>>So, I figured I would try reinstalling the patch for
>>F6 rather than the original install otherwise it would
>>overite some of my engines. But here I got an error message
>>in German after it asked what language and I selected english.
>>Error was something -132 so again lock up reboot.
>>
>>So I thought I will try Hiarcs 732 same thing but this time
>>wouldn't even load the Hiarcs 732 eng with the CD in.
>>Lock up...reboot.
>>
>>Then I try F 5.32 and this loads, I try to load another eng
>>and get a error message........TOO MANY ENGINES?? what this.
>>So I move some winboard engines and old engines into another
>>file and lo and behold now everything works....F6, J6, H732,
>>F532.
>>
>>Anyone ever heard of this too many engines??.
>>


Yes, its a wellknown limitation of Fritz5.32.
Christian



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