Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: jmhannan@cix.co.uk (Jeff Hannan) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Consoles are dead! Date: 15 Sep 1998 22:00:20 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <35FD930B.539B44AF@sinclair.net> Reply-To: jmhannan@cix.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: dyna23-12.compulink.co.uk In article <35FD930B.539B44AF@sinclair.net>, dreamer@sinclair.net (Joshua Meeds) wrote: > 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. > Unfortuately most software developers don't realise that, and store user data down amongst the Program Files directory - which makes it a bloody pain when you need to access it. I'm talking about software in general rather than just games. I think with games, user data is usually stored efficiently. Jeff