[X4U] OT: Harry Potter stumbles on Windows XP

[Zane H. Healy]

At 8:10 AM -0700 7/16/07, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>I agree that the original questions are totally off-topic for this 
>list, however, I'd also like to point out that *NO* software written 
>to run on a PC in the last 20 years should be tied to the CPU speed. 
>Game manufacturers tended to learn the error of their ways once 
>something faster than a 4.77Mhz

I hadn't fully read problem #1, sounds like this is at least part of 
the problem there.  Software was probably written by a bunch of kids 
just out of college with no sense of history. :^(

		Zane


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