I’m wandering if I should assume it has the same protection for each CD namely the SafeDisc 3.20.22 reported in CD 1? It is a bit unusual that A-Ray scanner reports a different copy protection for CDs 2 and 3 (SafeDisc2) compared to CD 1 (SafeDisc 3.20.22). Safe Disc 3.20.22 mustn’t be an easy protection to overcome.
Using Alcohol set to SafeDisc 2/3 to make a backup didn’t get me a backup that worked with Hide CDR Media checked. I would probably prefer a 1:1 backup as there is a sense of achievement at having successfully made a 1:1 copy of a game with strong copy protection but this isn’t easy to achieve. I don’t often attempt to make a copy of a game as I don’t play many games and I would like to know if there is a way around this problem. It seems that the makers of the game were clever enough to get it to detect a program like Clone CD that hides CDR Media so it will not run with Hide CDR Media enabled and without this enabled it sees that the game is written on a CDR and won’t play. Of course if I don’t use the Hide CDR Media I get the message headed ‘Cannot locate the CD-Rom’ and within the box under this heading ‘Please eject and re-insert the CD-ROM, select OK and restart the application’
#Buy chessmaster 10 software#
Please disable all CD/DVD emulation software and restart the game’
I used Clone CD to make copies of all 3 CDs and with the hide CDR media enabled in the Clone CD tray icon I get a message headed ‘Cannot locate the CD-ROM’ and within the box under this heading ‘CD/DVD emulation software has been detected.
The exact version of Safe Disk 2 I don’t know. Clony XXL told me all 3 disks were Safe Disk V2 protected. Whatever rocks your boat.I recently bought Chessmaster 10th Edition and want to make backups of each of the 3 discs to use and keep the original in as new condition. It's not worth buying if you've got 8000 (although it's probably worth a punt if you're still playing the original from 1986) but a bargain if you want to improve your game or play people across the Internet while wearing lady's underwear. Online and LAN options are still here, and, well that's about it. I suppose that when you're capable of thinking 127 moves ahead, juggling an infinite amount of moves in your head and struggling with deeply paranoid thoughts about communists and whether your opponent's playing footsie with you under the table, codingĪ few buttons and a front-end of the game that are intuitive to human beings is a bizarre concept.Īside from new spinny-rotatey boards the additions to Chessmaster 9000 consist of a course on the Psychology of Competition by International Master Josh Waitzkin (as boring as it sounds), a new Endgame Quiz from five times chess champ and Grand Master Larry Evans, and a new blunder alert feature that tells you when you've made a complete arse of yourself. Unforgivably, it still has the same archaic interface that makes getting into a game or selecting a board that's actually useable the equivalent of pitting your wits against a grandmaster.
#Buy chessmaster 10 Pc#
This is the definitive PC version and the Chessmaster series has been around since Korda was in shorts, but with Al that was going to challenge all but the elite in the game in place years ago, the only new features in 9000 are cosmetic, and even these are few and far between. Martin Korda thinks that Medieval: Total War is the pinnacle of strategy games on the PC, but he seems to be forgetting the granddaddy, the ultimate strategy fest, and the game that takes minutes to learn and several hundred lifetimes to master - kids today, don't know they're born.
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