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Article #23599Re: Chessmaster 2000 and Mac II
From: Gordon E. Banks
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1988 22:20
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1988 22:20
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In article <17372@topaz.rutgers.edu> mione@topaz.rutgers.edu (MIONE) writes: > >I purchased a copy Chessmaster 2000 recently. I do not own a MAC yet >but I plan on buying a MAC II within 4 to 6 mos. and the reason I >bought some software in advance is that there are plenty of MACs to >use here at work. Anyhow, I could not seem to get the thing to boot >and I was being helped by a KNOWLEDGEABLE friend. My guess is that the >copy protection crud is self-modifying and the 68020 with it's >instruction cache is losing when it tries to run it. > My version is the unprotected version they send you for $10 more after you have already bought the protected version. This one is the one that runs on my mac II. I haven't tried the protected version, since I don't believe in messing with that kind of software. The unprotected version runs fine, or at least has not bombed through a couple of complete games. Perhaps if I use it more, I will find a problem.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!husc6!hao!gatech!udel!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!cadre!geb From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Chessmaster 2000 and Mac II Message-ID: <913@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> Date: 13 Jan 88 22:20:29 GMT References: <2553@druhi.ATT.COM> <17372@topaz.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Gordon E. Banks) Distribution: comp Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA. Lines: 18