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In article <3v2t3h$q...@news.tuwien.ac.at>,
e872...@stud1.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Forisch) wrote:
> True some programs refuse to run correctely, but even the wizzards
> at MS had to include the single application mode which is comprised
> of 100% Dos. You can have the same effect in Warp, just boot DOS.....
> (BTW SAP-mode refuses to run on my machine, I couldnt care less)

Not to forget - some games will not even run in SAM.

> Putting the blame where it belongs:
> Doing dirty programming may look like the stroke of a genius if
> you work under DOS. In most cases (dirty programming) it is utterly
> uncalled for. Since it has been proven that clean code that runs
> under Os/2 can be written, the dirty tricks are not necessary.

I think a lot of games programmers on DOS comes from a background
of "DEMO" programming. This kind of programming is trying to make
the PC do something noone else has done before. I have seen demos
that will run only on a VERY small subset of the PC out there.

When you let this kind of programmer loose on a commercial game,
you are in trouble. Most of the time the "nice tricks" are not needed,
but the programmer doesn't know any other ways to speed up
programs.


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