Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Joshua Meeds Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Consoles are dead! Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 22:04:59 +0000 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 32 Message-ID: <35FD930B.539B44AF@sinclair.net> References: <1df62sq.1wrstwmb6zse8N@a1-88-119.a1.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: dreamer.sincom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Actually, PC's are made that way. You have two sections, one called Program Files, and everything else. Most software installs into Program Files by default. But the main thing is, you don't need to know what any of those files do. Modern games just require you to put the CD in the drive - it will automatically come up with a menu, with the top choice being to Play the game, or Install it if it isn't already installed. Jeff Hannan wrote: >...What gets me is that you > have millions of files, many of which pop up in places like the root > directory. How you are supposed to know what belongs where and what is > useful god only knows. > If I were God, or Gates, I would have two top directories - Programs, and > Personal Data. Software goes in programs, and Personal Data contains all > user data and setup information. The user only needs to backup their > Personal Data folder (and perhaps you could be prohibited from backing up > your program directory, because you should have the original disks.) > > Jeff -- - Joshua Meeds Dreamwriter Dragon dreamer@sinclair.net -=UDIC=- _____________________________________ We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of the dreams - Willy Wonka quoting Arthur O'Shaughnessy