Besides Lt John I hope this time patches (if there are any) are released all together. Not that we have to wait several weeks for the german version cause thats really lame! In fact it only makes me angry.

Perhaps I should be more specific. Will Australia get it the same day as the US?

*checks calendar*

Woohoo! Its a Sunday! I can get it on the first day!

quote: Originally posted by Big Crunch on 11-09-2000 06:58 PM Does this mean that the US and Canada speak a different language to the rest of the English speaking nations? I guess that's a stupid question. [This message has been edited by Big Crunch (edited November 09, 2000).]

Nope just diferent keybord layouts, Heck im in Houston, and we have 3 diferent keyboards where i work,(2 diferent American layouts, and one that is Either Spanish or European)

quote: Originally posted by Drakenred on 11-09-2000 09:48 PM Nope just diferent keybord layouts, Heck im in Houston, and we have 3 diferent keyboards where i work,(2 diferent American layouts, and one that is Either Spanish or European)

What the heck is "european"?
Is this the reason, why I (swiss-german speaking) don't understand the greek (talking greek).

Hey DanQ and MarkG; We should talk "european", then we can understand each other in europe. No matter in which european country we live in.

And: Hey spanish guys. Did you know? You're not european!!! Wow.

^1234567890ß´
qwertzuiopü+
asdfghjklöä#
Now Caps Lock:

°!"§$%&/()=?`
QWERTZUIOPÜ*
ASDFGHJKLÖÄ'
>YXCVBNM;:_

then there is "~" which is Alt-Gr and the key (right) next to the "ü"
and "|" which is Alt-Gr and the key (left) next to the "y"

The numbers with Alt-Gr pressed are:
1:none 2:² 3:³ 4:none 5:none 6:none 7:{ 8:[ 9:] 0:} ß:\

ATa

quote: Originally posted by phoenixcager on 11-10-2000 04:42 AM 1. I didn't know that the British and Americans used different kb layouts. So who uses the QWERTY? 2. Why should a keyboard layout affect the game? It's not some real-time or arcade game. Where the keys are doesn't affect the game one bit.

Actualy it does when

A)the game is hard coded to acept say the 6th key from the left on the second row to build a city, but the manual says to hit the b key(witch on the keybord May be on the third row, 4th key, or an unused key acording to the the "Key map" in the game(that is not as mutch of a problem anymore, though as i suspect that the games all now use ASCII, but even that has a problem, specificaly. .

B) If the game is looking for the ASCII value of 066(B) or 098(b), but the keybord is using, say Hexidecimal, the Keybords idea of B is 42(* in ASCII) or b whitch is 62(> in ASCII) again that is not a problem with US market keybords, but is a problem with some non-US standard keyboards, or becuase of Language diferences, the actual ASCII value of the key is diferent

Let me try to use an exple later,

quote: Originally posted by DaddyCool on 11-13-2000 09:41 PM Very cool...but is it the 19th, like it says here on Apolyton, or the 17th, like it says on Amazon??

Or better yet..(Panting..drooling as Troll does best!)

on www.gamelord.com..where Babbages is saying the 14th..NOW Thats better too !!
Troll

Guess it shows that while the Americans may consider us part of their domestic market, we don't consider ourselves to be part of it.

But, as long as we keep getting games and movies first, they can just go on thinking that way