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In article h...@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu, yn...@merhaba.cc.columbia.edu (Yann Nicolas) writes:
>OK... So I was a little afraid of installing Windows 95 over my old
>DOS 6.2/Windows 3.11 because I am a big gamer and thought that most
>games (read Wing Commander III and other "heavy" games) would not
>work...

>Of course, it took a little twitching for some games (WC3 was a little
>hard for me), but once it's done, it works flawlessly... 
>
>There ya go, my $0.02 gaming opinion of Windows 95...
>
>Opinions/comments/questions welcome... :)
>
Wing Commander III will run straight from Windows 95 - no need to exit to Single
Dos Application mode.
Select,  Start, Run, d:\wc3
and it will install to your hard disk, WC3 defaults to full screen but it will run
on a 486SX2 66 with a cirrus logic gfx card and 8MB of RAM   _from windows_
in case anyone is interested the benchmark results were CPU speed of 16 and gfx card 
speed of 5 - exactly the same as when I installed it in DOS - oh yes you can even switch out of it back to the Windows shell and leave it running in the background!!!
There's a little colour clash while it is switching but aside from that it is fine.


>PS: OS/2 users will tell me that "OS/2 did that a long time ago", but
>I tried it and didn't like it...
I used OS/2 2.1 for about a month, got sick of having to use dual boot nearly every
time I wanted to play a game, got sick of OS/2's clunky response to windows programs
and deleted it after a month having decided it was crap.

When Warp came out I got the demo, decided to give it a try but it wasn't even 
interested in installing, IBM helpware couldn't work out what the hell was going on
and I spent about 8 hours recovering the damage it had done to my system.
OS/2 is crap.

Barry


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Barry Clarke
clar...@aston.ac.uk
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