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In article <lupo.4.77...@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
Ken Lupo <lup...@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>:WHAT I MEAN IS THAT A GOOD WRITTEN GAME SHOULD BE ABLE TO WORK WITH A 
>:VARIETY OF PLATFORMS!!!!!!   (AND I AM YELLING)
>
>:Nicholas Barnard
>
>Dark Forces does work with a variety of platforms.  Do you realize that there 
>are millions of different ways a person can have a machine configured?  People 
>expect games to be able to run on every single one of these configurations 
>without a boot disk or a little tweaking?  Get a clue.  I wouldn't even 
>attempt to run any games under my configuration for windows: with smart drive 
>loaded, network driver, virus checker, etc.  How is the publisher supposed to 
>know what every friggin' person has on their computer?  If it's too much 
>effort to make a boot disk, lock yourself in a room and stay there.  You are 
>obviously no use to anyone.  (I don't know if you were the one complaining 
>about boot disks or not.  If you weren't, this just goes out others who are 
>complaining).
>
>If people are too lazy to make a friggin' disk, getting dark forces to run is 
>the least of their problems.
>

No, you're wrong.

On my standard setup, I have all the following programs loaded:
SCSI Driver
SmartDrive
sound card driver
CD-ROM driver
Network card driver
virus checker
DOSkey
Extended memory manager

and I STILL have well over 600K of low memory free.  I don't EVER have to have
multiple configs or use any lame boot disks.  Windows works fine along with
each and every one of the games (with the exception of Comanche which won't
run with EMM).

You just haven't been resourceful enough to figure out how to do this.  Sorry.