Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> "Brett Robson" <info@secret-web.com> wrote in message
> news:cf9qmj$30g$1@nnrp.gol.com...
> 
>>
>>Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
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>>>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.
> 

Yes I agree, but I should point out that these programmes would 
not install because of the OS and regional settings. The C++ was 
nearly 6 years old. I had MS Office but I can't remember if I 
installed it.




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