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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)
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Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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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.