wagner@utcs.UUCP (11/29/86)
Is anyone playing with Chessmaster 2000? I'm having some problems from time to time, and I wonder what it is that's getting me. Every once in a while, Chessmaster will crash the amiga. This seems to happen both on 1.1 and a 1.2 Beta release. Usually, it just locks up the mouse. Often, it happens in conjunction with the right (menu) mouse button. Other times, it takes a long time over a relatively simple position. At that point, if you look at the frame 'show chessmaster thinking', you notice that he's stopped thinking(!). Since it's always his move, you can wait a while. Today, I got a guru (first time that's happened). I was closing a window. Relatively harmless thing to do, I thought. The only thing 'odd' about my machine is the fact that I have a 2Meg expansion board on it (from Comspec). Has anyone else experienced these problems? They are relatively infrequent, but very irritating when they occur. Is 'Software Country' on the net? Michael Wagner (wagner@utcs)
john13@garfield.UUCP (12/01/86)
In article <1986Nov29.130417.15540@utcs.uucp> wagner@utcs.uucp writes: >Is anyone playing with Chessmaster 2000? Yes! :-) >Every once in a while, Chessmaster will crash the amiga. This seems to >happen both on 1.1 and a 1.2 Beta release. Usually, it just locks up the >mouse. Often, it happens in conjunction with the right (menu) mouse button. It hasn't happened to me under 1.2 gamma 1, but it did happen under 1.1 three times day it first arrived. All involved clicking one or both buttons several times in rapid succession, often leading to messages like "it's not your move" while it was in the process of moving around windows. As I say, 1.2 has been unbreakable, the only hitch being that the opening screen (with the wagon) looks as if it gained a bit plane somewhere - sort of like HAM pictures saved with SaveILBM loaded into ShowILBM. The second graphics screen and the chess screen are fine though. Chances are it will never happen (at least under a late 1.2) as long as you don't get overactive with the mouse buttons; chess is, after all, a sedate game :-) . John