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Re: W95 Game Platform OS is great

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From: bre... Brent Sampson
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1995 00:00
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>Since this in a gaming base area I'll talk about the advantages of Win95 
>over Win31 and why you should switch. First off it is much much more 
>backwards compatible with DOS games. Win95 was designed to accomodate 
>gamers and is much easier to program games for. Games will run faster not 
>slower in Win95. No longer will you have to worry about running boot 
>disks or a memory managers. It will stabilize and standardize drivers. 
>Which should make some of those non SB16 16-bit sound cards actually work 
>at 16 bit instead of defaulting down to SB compatible 8-bit. It makes it 
>easier for programers because they only have to program for a select few 
>windows drivers. Hopefully we will higher resolution games. It will 
>support and standardizes 3d Rendering Graphic Cards (soon to become a big 
>thing in the gaming world). Long file names are a good thing,not bad.
> 
So far, a lot of what this post says seems incorrect to me. I am running
Win 95 now and it's _harder_ to get DOS-based games to run because you
have to allocate memory _away_ from Windows. Before, all you had to do
was exit Windows and run the game. No more! There is no escape!!

Dos games that _do_ run in Win 95 without some hefty rearranging (and
there ain't many) don't run any faster. But, to be honest, it doesn't
look like they run any slower, either.

So far, it's a hastle. Hopefully, I'll figure it out more.
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From: bre...@rmii.com (Brent Sampson)
Subject: Re: W95 Game Platform OS is great
Date: 1995/07/09
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