"Brett Robson" <info@secret-web.com> wrote in message
news:cf9qmj$30g$1@nnrp.gol.com...
>
>
> Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> >
> > I think I have written here about what a bunch of shit-birds BlackIsle
and
> > Sega were about this with Baldur's Gate -- through an agreement with the
> > Japanese retailer, BlackIsle added code to their English language
version
> > that shut down the game if a Japanese OS was detected
>
> When I first came to Japanese I brought 5 PC games and 3 computer
> language programming environments (Borland Java, MS C++ and
> Oracle). Of the 8 CDs only Oracle would run on Japanese windows.

I use MSVC 6.0 on my Japanese OS with no problems -- maybe you had an
earlier version?

Sometimes English-language products will have trouble on Japanese OSs,
especially with 9x. Usually because they are doing something wrong, like
making assumptions about what a valid file path is, instead of letting the
system handle it.

Stupidity and bad programming I can forgive, having been guilty of both more
times than I like to recall. But deliberately breaking a program to enable
price gouging, without even telling the customers what is going on, is
simply inexcusable.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom
test_3@ginstrom.com