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wjst...@gamera.syr.edu (William J. Startin) writes:

>Well, I recently got onto the Doom bandwagon, after I played the game on
>a friend's PC and was blown away by it. Unfortunately, my PC has only 
>4 MB of RAM.  Then I thought of Windows (v3.1) and its virtual memory...
>So I tried running Doom shareware v1.2 under windows (executing from File
>Manager) and it worked!! The disk access is a bit of a pain, and the graphics
>aren't always as smooth as they should be because of access delays, but
>thanks to local bus IDE it's quite good. 

>IN SHORT: Yes, Doom v1.2 works beautifully under windows 3.1 (and dos 6.2,
>if that matters, I don't know if it does).
>-Bill
>wjst...@mailbox.syr.edu

Bog, why would it work better under windoze?"  It takes up memory and HD access
time.  Just kill all memory managers and run it from DOS.  I got a 4M 486DX33,
local bus everything, and it runs beautifully.

later-

Shane