Sorry for not posting much, busy with paying work lately. On a more amusing subject I went to install a copy of “Oregon Trail 5th Edition” I got from goodwill for 4 bucks. The following horrible design is what it offered me for choices on installation location:

Click it for a larger version if you like, the basic problem there is that the question given to the user for installation location is “Choose domain for installation of software:”

Possible answers in the drop down are:

• On System Disk
• On Appropriate Disk
• System Domain
• Local Domain
• Network Domain
• User Domain

Clearly “On Appropriate Disk” is the most hilarious of the options given. I suppose it is possible that this isn’t really an end-user disc, and is instead for a school or something, where maybe these options make more sense.

Now that the game is installed, it exits out with a friendly message telling me that I need the font “New York 18″.

I google for “Oregon trail” “New York 18″.

Their support site says that you can only get the font from OS 9.

Their support site has no patches for the game.

So now I have to warez a font just to play this game.

Brilliant.

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