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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: rcha... Randy Charland
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00
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Allright my turn to say something...

	Now first lets get straight, this isn't meant to be a flame instigator so 
save your breath.   Second, I personally feel OS/2 is an excellent operating 
and anyone that tries argues otherwise is pretty foolish.  However, I just 
tried out the third beta of Win95 and it's game support is pretty incredible.
This is why...

1)  Even though it doesn't let you configure sessions as well as OS/2 
there really isn't any need to for most games.  I loaded these games on my 
machine and they ran straight after installation with no tweaking at all:  
EarthSiege, Harpoon2, Seawolf, Civilisation, DoomII, Fleet Defender and 
Links386.  I mean I installed them, clicked on the icon and BAM!  
worked without a hitch!! Granted this is a small scope of games but 
compared to what I experienced with the same games in Warp, the difference was 
night and day.  There were no speed sacrifices at all.  

2)  The only game where I had do drop into "DOS" mode was for USNF.  When you 
do have to drop into DOS mode it basically reboots your machine.  Pretty much 
sucks but it does let you specify a seperate config and autoexec statements in 
the PIF file.  Keep in mind though that was only ONE game.  I couldn't even 
run USNF, or knew how to, in OS/2 Warp.

>From a person that was intially very doubtful Win95 game support surprised me 
quite a bit.  This is message is only meant as info, not insult. :^)

Randy
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From: rcha...@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Charland)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/19
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