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In article <3tpn10$c...@natasha.rmii.com>,
Brent Sampson <bre...@rmii.com> wrote:
>
>>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.

I think you misinterpreted the guy's post.  He was taling about
two different types of games in his paragraph.

First he was talking about DOS games.  All he said about them was
that there is better compatibility with DOS games than Win 3.1, which
is definitely true (that isn't so hard to do).

Then he switched and talked about Win 95 NATIVE games.  Since
these don't exist yet (Ultima 9 should be one coming out), it is
hard to judge whether EVERYTHING he said is true.  But he is 
definitely right that more sound cards will be supported at
16 bits, and a few of the other points.  Whether the games
will actually be faster than they are now is questionable since
we don't have any actual games out yet.

So yes, what YOU say is true (DOS games and Win95 can be a pain), but
it is still an improvement over Win 3.1 where almost NO DOS game 
can work under windows.

Steven