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Since the second part is remotely related to games, I won't stick
a followup header on this one.

bad...@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) wrote:
>In an attempt to inject some facts into this flame war:

>1) According to PC Week, IBM has stated that contrary to previous
>   reports, there will be no version of OS/2 that will support Win'95
>   apps -- ever! 

What they are doing is adding some API to OS/2 which more
resembles Win32, making the porting from Win32 -> OS/2 much
easier.  I guess they finally realize that it's futile to make
OS/2 to be compatible with a moving API (see how MS "upgrades"
Win32s 1.15 to 1.2 just after Warp is released).

>2) Most major software developers are currently developing Win'95 only games.

Your "Most major" games developers are less than 10 as far as I
have seen.  Origin, Sierra, SH, and couple others are the only
ones I have heard with actual products for Win95 in progress. 
And of those, I usually hear about only 1 or 2 products are for
Win95.

More so, I haven't heard _any_ game companies say "We are doing
Win95 from now on, no more DOS games from us."

Of course, if you know more, please tell us about it.

>   It will be only a matter of time before most new games are
>   Win'95 only, just as most new games today are CD-ROM only. People may

Most new games are both CD-ROM and floppy from what I have seen.
There are significant number of CD-ROM only games, but far from
majority.  Your "only a matter of time" translates to anything
from 2 years to forever.  And MS stated that Win95 only have a
life of 3-5 years, it will be all NT after that.

If, and by the time, Win95 games become the norm, you will be
told to upgrade to NT.

>   whine at first at having to purchase Win'95, just as people whined about
>   having to purchase a CD-ROM drive, but in the end they will relent. 

I heard the same about NT 2 years ago, where is NT now?

>It is irrelevant whether or not you think OS/2 is superior to
>Win'95. Without Win'95 support, OS/2 will rapidly become useless except for
>running old programs. And please don't tell me "there are hundreds of native
>OS/2 programs". Yes, for things like parakeet breeding management. But on

Can you name a application category (e.g. wordprocessor,
spreadsheet) where there are _no_ OS/2 native apps? (Of course,
Win95 shell enhancers, VFAT recovery apps, etc, don't count)  Are
you willing to bet $$ on the ones that you are going to list that
I will be unable to find native OS/2 apps?

>the gaming front, there exists precisely one native OS/2 commercial game, with
>only two more planned. Clearly without Win'95 support, OS/2 is doomed as
>a gaming platform. 

If you know nothing about commercial games for OS/2, say so.  The
"one native, 2 planned" are from a _single_ game company (SDS)
only.  Can you name some game companies which has 1 Win95 game
available with 2 planned to release within 6 months?

>I am not pleased with this situation. But it is clear that IBM is no longer
>willing to seriously develop OS/2 if it refuses to add Win'95 support.

"But it is clear that MS is no longer willing to seriously
develop Win95 if it refuses to add OS/2 support."

Since OS/2 has more apps and games available, my statement is
more true than yours.

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Oliver Chung
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