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Article #121Re: Win95 and games: good news...
From: b... Brad Grossman
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00
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...welp, here are my experiences with Win 95. The good point and bad point with Win 95 and DOS games is that you pretty much run whatever you are going to run from a DOS full-screen prompt. If things don't work right, there really isn't much you can change...unless you are willing to run it in MS-DOS mode which basically shelves Win 95 and basically puts you in DOS. Nothing can run in the background of this. Here are my limited experiences with a few games: Descent: Ran for a bit, OK. Left the window, came back, few seconds later, full system crash. Doom II: Perfectly (on a P5-90) WC 3: Perfectly....until you switch away....once you switch away, you can't come back. X-com 2, Master of Orion: Perfectly...though sound my drop out after a few re-loads in X-com 2. Mortal Kombat II: Runs but the screen goes black with the exception of the strength bars. As for Win 3.1 progs...it'll run 'em all...with the exception of those that access the HD directly, and those you can often use if you use the LOCK command.
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