rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes) (10/31/90)
I've been told by a sales staff member at MacConnection that the copies of
Chessmaster 2100 they've been getting lately have been infected with the
WDEF virus. (That was why I was getting cards saying "The item you ordered
is out of stock...").
I had meanwhile bought the program at a local retail outlet. I ran
Disinfectant on it and found that it was not (repeat, not) infected.
If you bought Chessmaster 2100 recently it would probably be wise to check it.
[Aside: as one who was a patzer even before he got out of practice, I can't
really rate CM 2100's playing ability; as far as the programming is concerned,
it seems to be mostly adequate. The chess piece conversion utility mentioned
in the manual is NOT included, and when I try to open a file in the "Chess
set..." dialog, my Mac crashes. The program also crashed once in midgame
(just after I'd made a particularly stupid move, so I ain't complaining.)
The analysis option seems to be a can of bugs: in particular, I can't get
"Analyze to disk" or "Analyze to printer" to work. The documentation's pretty
good & interesting.]
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- Rich Holmes rich@suhep.bitnet
Syracuse U. Physics Dept. rich@suhep.phy.syr.edu
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