Geniux 3 4 5 Questions

Christian Huynh

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Dec 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/30/96

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Hi everybody ! Greetings from Paris !

I have some questions about Genius.
Santa Claus (locally named Pere Noel) offered me a PC Chess board that
you connect on the parallel port of the PC. The software I use is Genius
3 which I bought about 100$. The problem is that the floppy disk is
protected against copy. That is OK for me but the amount of installation
"tokens" is limited to three and I already lost one token in a crash
disk.

I say : I PAID FOR THE SOFTWARE && I found it terrible not to be able
to reinstall this software anytime I crash my PC.

Now the question : I've heard that newer versions of Genius use a CDROM.
Do these versions have a "unlimited install procedure" (do they just
verify the CDROM ?). If so I will probably upgrade. Do these versions
still support the PC chess board ?

Apart from that, a friend has Fritz4 on CDROM which seems to be
more user-friendlythat Genius but doesnt support the PC chess board...
Any rumors about it ??

Thanks in advance !!

Markus Seger

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Dec 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/30/96

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> Now the question : I've heard that newer versions of Genius use a CDROM.
> Do these versions have a "unlimited install procedure" (do they just
> verify the CDROM ?). If so I will probably upgrade. Do these versions
> still support the PC chess board ?

Genius 5 comes on a CDROM. You can make unlimited installations but you
have to reinsert the CD every 95 startups/1 month, whatever comes first.
The DOS version supports PC chess boards, the Windows version does not.

Markus

pit...@aol.com

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Dec 31, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/31/96

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Im Artikel <01bbf656$6b9974e0$aa8ca8c0@pcmse>, "Markus Seger"
<m.s...@ids-scheer.de> wrote:

>Genius 5 comes on a CDROM. You can make unlimited installations but you
>have to reinsert the CD every 95 startups/1 month, whatever comes first.
>The DOS version supports PC chess boards, the Windows version does not.

Not correct, Markus ! The windows - Version supports two chessboards, 1.)
Tasc Smartboard 2.) Mephisto - PCBoard

3.) PC - ChessBoard CHESS232 can be used with the Dos - Versions on the CD
!!!

good 1997

-Peter

Tord Kallqvist Romstad

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Jan 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/2/97

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Markus Seger (m.s...@ids-scheer.de) wrote:
: > Now the question : I've heard that newer versions of Genius use a CDROM.

: > Do these versions have a "unlimited install procedure" (do they just
: > verify the CDROM ?). If so I will probably upgrade. Do these versions
: > still support the PC chess board ?

: Genius 5 comes on a CDROM. You can make unlimited installations but you

: have to reinsert the CD every 95 startups/1 month, whatever comes first.
: The DOS version supports PC chess boards, the Windows version does not.

The DOS versions included on the CDROM does not seem to have any kind of
copy protection. However, for some strange reason both MS-DOS programs
refuse to run if any of the Windows related files (the Genius 5 Win executable,
the BMP files etc.) are missing. I find this very irritating, because I
prefer to use the MS-DOS versions, and would like to save some hard disk
space.

The speed difference between the MS-DOS and Windows versions is surprisingly
large --- the MS-DOS version is about 20% faster. The reason is not only
the hash tables; the MS-DOS version is faster even with 384kB hash. The
GUI looks like in Genius 4, but is slower.

Tord