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From: Raymond Martineau
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:30

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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:37:44 +0100, Markus Barth <mar.5d@new-wen.net>
wrote:

>Beowulf wrote:
>> Ack.  You think you're old.  I'm 45 and still gaming.  I will be firing 
>> up wc1,2,3,4 as soon as I finish setting up a PII with DOS 6.22, 
>> win98se.  I even have a functional voodoo2 with drivers!
>
>Dont forget a program to slow down the PC or WC 1 and 2 will be 
>unplayable. I remember the first time i tried WC 2 on a Celeron 400, 
>damn that was fast, hehe.

If you can get your hands on the Windows 95 port of the first two games,
you won't have any speed problems.  (Of course, they're just as available
as the dos version.)

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Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Wing Commander 3
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