Classic Moorhuhn and Windows 10

The classic Moorhuhn game from 1999 - or in other countries known as 'Crazy Chicken' got its problems to be used with Windows 7 and 8. But as I now found out: It works with Windows 10.

The game which was first only be planned as a Johnnie Walker promotion game was quite popular during the time around the the turn of the millennium.

It was named 'Die Original Moorhuhn Jagd', 'Die virtuelle Moorhuhnjagd' or just 'Moorhuhn 1', because after the success many new games were produced.

I remember with Windows 7 the game only started with 16 colors which wasn't helpful. With using the compatibility mode there where ways to run it - like with using it in window mode. Others just played the 'Moorhuhn Remake' from 2005.

And with Windows 8 there was a similar situation as far as I know - maybe somebody can confirm that.

But with Windows 10 the exe file 'Moorhuhn.exe' could be started without any additional settings. The classic game from 1999 is really working on Microsofts latest operating system.

And now I was able to see my old high scores again and had my problems to even reach 850 points. Anyway. What's your high score?

About the game: The goal of the game is to get as many points as possible by shooting at chicken with different distances. Close chickens 5 points, far away and small chickens 25 points and 10 points for those with a medium distance. Sometimes a chicken appears just in front of you which will also bring 25 more points.

Change Android system language to Japanese WITHOUT rooting!

Usually it's quite easy to change the system language of your Android device to another one. But how can you proceed if the language you want isn't even listed?

In my case it was a Samsung Galaxy S3 mini with Android 4.1.2 and I wanted to change the OS language to Japanese, but unfortunately there was no option. There was Korean or Chinese, but no Japanese...

I read something about the app 'Language Enabler' (available in Google PlayStore), which is able to enable hidden languages within Samsung devices.

But as I read this app would only work with rooted Android phones - which I didn't have. Nevertheless I downloaded the app and started it.

After starting this app a warning message about this showed up. But: As you can see in the screenshot on the right, 'you can still apply a default language'.

And then I tried exactly just that. The list within Language Enabler luckily included also Japanese. For applying the default language there was a phone system restart necessary, but that didn't happen. So I confirmed the change to Japanese again.

It took like 20 seconds and the language was changed to Japanese without even restarting the phone! But to be sure I restarted my phone and after a reboot the system remained in Japanese.

And that's how it looks in Japanese

So it worked as it wasn't planned. I don't know if the same scenario would work with other devices, but you can may comment your experiences about that.

The next goal would be to understand the OS language. Good luck with that!