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Article #1691Re: Windows 95 & OS/2
From: gmc... Gord McFee
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 00:00
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In message <3vc3pd$n...@seymour.sfu.ca> - b...@sfu.ca (Jeremy Bee) writes: :> :>In article <3v9fou$8...@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net>, :> gmc...@ibm.net (Gord McFee) wrote: :>>:>Let me rephrase that: any game that runs on a person't machine without :>>:>Windows 95 will run in SAM after Windows 95 has been installed. :>> :>>Good to hear. Those same games run under warp in a VDM and still allow :>>multitasking. :>> :>There are also a lot of games that will run in SAM mode under Win95 that won't :>even show a glimmer under Warp, like ones that need direct access to the :>hardware. If you are a gamer, you gotta get Win95, both for Dos compatibility :>with the old games and because of the new ones being written for 95 right now, :>which also will not run under Warp. If you're a gamer, you can get a Nintendo. :-) Seriously, do you mean the games that will run in SAM mode *won't* run under DOS? Because that's what VDM gives you. I am running a remote connection right now that uses incompatible files for Warp--it croaks under Warp--but runs fine in a VDM. Gord McFee "I'll write no line before its time"
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From: gmc...@ibm.net (Gord McFee) Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 Date: 1995/07/29 Message-ID: <3vdn1r$1pn8@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> X-Deja-AN: 107137694 references: <3t91i2$3gt@oslo-nntp.eunet.no> <3urmk3$19k_002@line05.socketis.net> <3v2t3h$qht@news.tuwien.ac.at> <boP5mqrPwxPS078yn@vestnett.no> <3v9fou$8hs@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit