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Article #353769Re: Why prolong the agony? Just get Windows 95...you'll be glad (you don't have a choice)
From: bd... Ben Damm
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:00
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> The one are that always lagged for Windows 3.1 though was games. >We've by and large a bunch of brain dead game developers who have, until >the advent of Win95, been developing primarily in DOS (haven't bought a >DOS product in years). Win95 is quickly changing that and users won't >tolerate this DOS game crap for much longer. > Steve I must disagree. One reason there are so many DOS games and so few games on other platforms, is because of the fact that DOS sucks. It's VERY easy for a programmer to take possesion of the DOS system and turn it into a top - notch gameing system. Yu can't do this with many other OS's because the ACTUALLY PROTECT THIER MEMORY SPACE!!! The Windows95 (and NT) gaming APIs are simply not as fast. My games run quite nicely under dos, but hover is a dog. Ben --------------- "Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson bd...@axionet.com 32 Bits = $4.00 = Amount of money it takes to install linux. ($4.00 for electricity.)
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From: bd...@axionet.com (Ben Damm) Subject: Re: Why prolong the agony? Just get Windows 95...you'll be glad (you don't have a choice) Date: 1995/12/01 Message-ID: <49m1n0$k7d@blues.axionet.com> X-Deja-AN: 120484501 references: <49kjg5$9cg@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <30bddc17.1416549@204.178.72.1> <DIvw0y.E3n@world.std.com> organization: Axion internet newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.multimedia,comp.graphics.animation,alt.games.doom,alt.games.descent,alt.games.warcraft,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.object,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,news.admin.policy,fr.comp.windows.drivers,alt.windows95,soc.culture.russian,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.binaries.mac,alt.mac,alt.mac.games,alt.sources.mac,alt.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.games.action,comp.os.os2,alt.org.team-os2,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.games,comp.os.os2.comm,de.comp.os.os2.misc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit