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Article #2631Re: Win95 and games: good news...
From: clar... Barry Clarke
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 00:00
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In article o...@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu, dmcc...@sitvxa.stevens-tech.edu (Daniel McCarty) writes: >In article <798682...@markbz.demon.co.uk>, Ma...@markbz.demon.co.uk >says... >> >>You can have whatever config.sys or autoexec you like >>if you run the Dos session in DOS single mode. >> >>-- > 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... > Without being funny, as a 3 month OS/2 2.1 ex-user I didn't find _any_ games around at the time that _didn't_ require you to use OS/2's dual boot feature. Let's be honest here, OS/2 takes a _lot_ longer to reboot either itself or DOS than win95 does. >Daniel. >dmcc...@sitvxa.stevens-tech.edu > Bz --- Barry Clarke clar...@aston.ac.uk "The truth is out there"
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From: clar...@aston.ac.uk (Barry Clarke) Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news... Date: 1995/05/12 Message-ID: <D8Gr48.EI3@aston.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 102568425 sender: use...@aston.ac.uk x-nntp-posting-host: rwanda.aston.ac.uk references: <3o2gss$o2o@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu> organization: Aston University reply-to: clar...@aston.ac.uk newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit