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From: d.tem... David
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00
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On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 15:26:36 GMT, mack...@freemail.danbbs.dk (Peter "Mack-Jack" Christiansen) wrote: >>Yes, I understand DX6 issues, but how about the 98 stuff? Will this OS >>environment affect TFTD even though its a DOS based game? >The game kept crashing here on W98, but ran fine on W95 (OSR2 UK). >DX6 was not installed in either of those OS's, and it won't be until I >find a game I wanna play that requires it. > >Although I'm not thereby saying that it's gonna crash on _every_ Win98 >there is.. UFO runs fine on win98. It's best to restart in MSDOS mode. It does work from a dos prompt too (although the mouse response is slow). Slowing down the processor is the biggest problem.
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