🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <rcharlan....@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu>, rcha...@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Charland) writes:
>
> 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.
>
The question here is if Win95 really has session settings, but hides
them from you unlike OS/2. Win95 may just have a VERY good database
of current games with well tuned settings for each.

On the other hand, since Win95 is less concerned with protection than
OS/2, it may not need control as strict as OS/2 has over DOS sessions.

It may even be a combination of both factors, fewer settings and a
good database for tuning them. One way to tell would be a game that
came out after the beta and has had no chance to be included in their
database. I would go so far as to say, even check for a new DOS
extender, since that is one of the primary drivers in this.

Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)