Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-)

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From: khc... Oliver Chung
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 00:00

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bra...@shadow.net (Braden McDaniel) wrote:
>In article <3u0ekd$v...@zen.hursley.ibm.com>, a...@vnet.ibm.com wrote:
>>
>>The 'facility' I presume you mean is WinG for which there is an OS/2 
>>equivalent
>>called DIVE which is just as good.

>The second incarnation of the Game Developer's Kit (which I'm not 
>sure still goes under the monicker "WinG")is *much* more extensive 
>than the first. If DIVE is comparable to WinG 1.0, then I doubt it can 
>hold a candle to the Game DevKit 2.0.

First, DIVE is more than comparable to WinG (whatever version),
it's superior.

And if you want to compare beta stuff (MS GDK 2.0), it's only
fair to compare to other beta stuff, like (IBM's GDK).  And since
both are not fully released yet, talking about them is a waste of
time.

[delete]
>>Any respectable programmer should be able to write games which work 
>>under W95 and OS/2. Since the facilities each OS offers to the games 
[snip]

>Okay, perhaps they could do it--selling it would still be a problem.

Less of a problem compared to selling it to a non-existant user
base.  SDS found that selling OS/2 games is quite easy, they are
making more to be released this fall.

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Oliver Chung
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From: khc...@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Oliver Chung)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-)
Date: 1995/07/16
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