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From: ga... Gary Morris
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 00:00

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In <DCFJ1...@cunews.carleton.ca> cor...@chat.carleton.ca (Christina O'Regan) writes:
>Tim Barham (tba...@vcrpmap.telecom.com.au) wrote:
>> In article <DC6Cz...@cunews.carleton.ca>,
>>    cor...@chat.carleton.ca (Christina O'Regan) wrote:

>> >Jody Cooper (jco...@socketis.net) wrote:

>> > > If you want to blame programming, blame IBM.  OS/2 is supposed to be a
>> > > "better DOS than DOS."  Don't point fingers at id.  If Doom was
>> > > specifically written for OS/2, then you can, but you can't.

>From what I've heard, Doom 1.1 run perfectly under Warp. FULL sound effects
and FULL music. Then when 1.2 came out (or whatever came next) they'd 
changed it so we have our current problem. Warp runs the version that was
out before it's release, then ID mucked about with the hardware calls, 
and see what happened.

-- 
Gary Morris                         "Happily using OS/2 Warp!"
Sherwood Park Remote Systems
ga...@sprsys.edmonton.ab.ca

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From: ga...@sprsys.nl2k.edmonton.ab.ca (Gary Morris)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2
Date: 1995/07/28
Message-ID: <wWTGwAGGBh107h@sprsys.nl2k.edmonton.ab.ca>
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