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Article #2112Re: OS/2..Win 95 -- Some actual facts that will affect *gaming*
From: ste... Robert Steele
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <3tbnso$b...@news.cc.utah.edu>, rcb...@u.cc.utah.edu says... I don't know what the previous articles had to do with the message title, but here's some info about gaming on Win 95. I just read a large article in Multimedia World mag about 10-15 new games being released in the next 6 months SPECIFICALLY for Win 95. Almost all are action oriented like Mortal Kombat or Doom, and even a LucasArts kids game that uses a new Rebel Assault engine for Win 95. Unfortunately for OS/2 people, this probably means games will never be big on OS/2, cause Win 95 has already garnered great support. More importantly, here's why it'll be nice. - Won't have to fiddle with MS-DOS settings to get games to run. - Full support of your hardware, no matter what it is, as long as Win 95 supports it. So for all of you with 16-bit no-name sound cards who can never get SB16 support in your games...as long as Win 95 has drivers for your card...the game will use it. - DirectDraw API for high speed graphics direct to video memory. - Many of the games tout full screen video, and smooth gaming through multi-threading (remains to be seen how games will multi-task) Anyways, if the HOVER game that came with the June beta release of Win 95 is any indication of games to come, I think we'll be in pretty good shape. For those of you who don't have the beta, HOVER is a Doom-esqe car environment. Cheesy game, but the graphics and sound are great and prove the speed of 3-D type games under 95. Greg Bronzert Computer Engineer Virginia Tech
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From: ste...@irp.nimh.nih.gov (Robert Steele) Subject: Re: OS/2..Win 95 -- Some actual facts that will affect *gaming* Date: 1995/07/13 Message-ID: <1995Jul13.132551.2986@alw.nih.gov> X-Deja-AN: 106169067 sender: pos...@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) references: <vendettaDApDvy.L0C@netcom.com> <3sisen$aqs@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <3sl0sj$tkc@CUBoulder.Colorado.EDU> <badger.804132541@phylo> <3sler4$9o5@lynx.unm.edu> <3sudbc$ss1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> <3t1lp5$rrf@heart.cas.und.nodak.edu> <3tbnso$bfs@news.cc.utah.edu> organization: NIMH mime-version: 1.0 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.sys.ibm.pc.games.f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit