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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: to... Duke Toma
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 00:00
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In <D8Gr4...@aston.ac.uk> clar...@aston.ac.uk (Barry Clarke) writes:

>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.

Your settings must have been wrong then.  Warp actually comes with 
settings for a lot of games.  The only games that don't work are those 
that use memory managers not supported by OS/2.  (Origin comes to mind...)
Most games will work under OS/2.




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From: to...@widomaker.com (Duke Toma)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/05/14
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