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Article #1692Re: Windows 95 & OS/2
From: laur... Hungs
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 00:00
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$8...@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net>, >> There are also a lot of games that will run in SAM mode under Win95 that won't >> even show a glimmer under Warp, like ones that need direct access to the >> hardware. If you are a gamer, you gotta get Win95, both for Dos compatibility >> with the old games and because of the new ones being written for 95 right now, >> which also will not run under Warp. > >What? I'm a gamer, and I am not going to buy Win95. If I want to play >games, I am going to use DOS. Remember, the game WAS written for DOS, >and since I currently have DOS (Not a MS-DOS), I am not going to >switch to a technically inferior product so I can run DOS games. If >you want to use DOS games, why not use DOS? What's the point in >upgrading if you aren't going to use any of the "new" technology? >It's pointless! > >> Jeremy > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >David Kennedy >Carleton University >Computer and Systems Engineering >Email address: cor...@chat.carleton.ca >---------------------------------------------------------------------- Well then you'll miss out on all the Windows '95 games. They run as fast or unnoticeably slower than DOS. Also you will lose multitasking. If you want to see a nice Win95 game you should take a look at the pre-Alpha game that was ported from the Sega: PitFall Harry. It's a really nice game. Anyways MS is designing Win95 a lot around making it a better gaming platform. Win95 is the future of games. Ted Hung
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From: laur...@ix.netcom.com (Hungs) Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 Date: 1995/07/30 Message-ID: <3vf0uj$nnt@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 107137749 distribution: world references: <3t91i2$3gt@oslo-nntp.eunet.no> <3urmk3$19k_002@line05.socketis.net> <3v2t3h$qht@news.tuwien.ac.at> <boP5mqrPwxPS078yn@vestnett.no> <3v9fou$8hs@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> <3vc3pd$ng@seymour.sfu.ca> <DCHu6B.FLC@cunews.carleton.ca> organization: Netcom 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