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Re: Windows 95 & OS/2

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From: gmc... Gord McFee
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 
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From: gmc...@ibm.net (Gord McFee)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2
Date: 1995/07/29
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