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In article <67.833...@bgbbs.com>, trent...@bgbbs.com (Trent Troop) says:
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>I've seen both Windows 95 Beta and Warp in action.  And IMHO no gamer in
>his right mind will do anything with Win 95 disks except BURN THEM.  Any
>game using Dos4gw will not, to my knowlege, work under win 95, this
>means most of the newer, high-end games.  This is a crippling blow.
>Also, while Warp will allow you set your machine to run in DOS mode (not
>just under a window, but act just like a dos Systerm) To my knowlege,
>Win 95 doesn't allow this.
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>Also, dealing with/removing Windows 95 caused me to nickname my dads'
>computer Mr. Gone (Maxx fans unite), Warp has never caused me to do
>this.


I think you should question your knowledge of Windows 95.  You most
certainly can run DOS4GW games under Windows 95... in fact, I have had
FAR more luck running a game within Windows 95 compared to when I was
running OS/2.  To tell you the truth, this wouldn't affect my decision
to run OS/2 anyway since I prefer to run my games from pure DOS.
Which brings us to the second point... booting to DOS was a feature
available since the earliest betas of Windows 95.  You could choose
to boot your old original version of DOS or you could choose to bootup
DOS v7.0.  I used to maintain a copy of DOS v6.2 along side Windows 95
but I stopped doing so... I've had absolutely zero incompatibilities
from DOS v7.0 (ignoring the LOCK feature which prevents older programs
from messing up the long filename system... I'm not too fond of the
way they implemented this).

I've played tons of titles under DOS v7.0... X-Wing, Doom, Descent,
Dark Forces, Wing Commander III, Hi Octane, Magic Carpet, Under a Killing
Moon... blah blah blah.  Actually, most of the above ran from a DOS
window (though not necessarily IN a window).