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Re: Windows 95 & OS/2

#1692
From: laur... Hungs
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 00:00
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In <DCHu6...@cunews.carleton.ca> cor...@chat.carleton.ca (Christina
O'Regan) writes: 
>
>Jeremy Bee (b...@sfu.ca) wrote:
>> In article <3v9fou$8...@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net>,
>> 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.
>
>What? I'm a gamer, and I am not going to buy Win95.  If I want to play
>games, I am going to use DOS. Remember, the game WAS written for DOS,
>and since I currently have DOS (Not a MS-DOS), I am not going to
>switch to a technically inferior product so I can run DOS games.  If
>you want to use DOS games, why not use DOS?  What's the point in
>upgrading if you aren't going to use any of the "new" technology? 
>It's pointless!
>
>> Jeremy
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>David Kennedy             
>Carleton University       
>Computer and Systems Engineering
>Email address: cor...@chat.carleton.ca
>----------------------------------------------------------------------

Well then you'll miss out on all the Windows '95 games. They run as
fast or unnoticeably slower than DOS.  Also you will lose multitasking.
 If you want to see a nice Win95 game you should take a look at the
pre-Alpha game that was ported from the Sega: PitFall Harry. It's a
really nice game. Anyways MS is designing Win95 a lot around making it
a better gaming platform.  Win95 is the future of games.

Ted Hung
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From: laur...@ix.netcom.com (Hungs)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2
Date: 1995/07/30
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