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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: Mark Rogers
Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 00:00
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In article <3o2gss$o...@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>
           dmcc...@sitvxa.stevens-tech.edu "Daniel McCarty" writes:

>         Yeah, this is nice.  The only problem: every time you start the
>         game/program that uses these settings Windows will shut down,
>         your computer will reboot, and it'll load up with the alternative
>         autoexec and config.
> 
>         Then, after your finished playing a game, it reloads win95.
>         Quite a pain.  Would've been nicer if they could've done it like
>         OS/2's virtual "dos" sessions, but I guess they ran into some
>         limitations...

Which is exactly what you do in OS/2 Warp when a game won't run even
after messing around with the options a VDos session settings 1000 times.
Yes you choose DOS boot, reboot, play the game fine, then reboot 
into OS2 (having to use the BOOT utility first each time to restore your 
boot block) and reboot into OS2 again.

Many programs work fine in the virtual Dos in Win95. Also if you
use the current machine config in the Single Dos Mode your machine
doesn't reboot.  Windows shuts down all the `windows' runs you game the
quits back into windows.

The OS's are very similar in many ways.

-- 
Mark Rogers.
- Founder member of VFF - Veggie Freedom Fighters.
- Campaign for humain treatment of vegetables (including lettuce).
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