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Re: W95 Game Platform OS is great

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From: sv... Sven Anders Robbestad
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <3tt9bm$7...@si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de>, bec...@zess.uni-siegen.de says...
>
>rcb...@u.cc.utah.edu (cam burnham) wrote:
>
>>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. 
>
>Be honest, is it really so?
>
>I can say that I *managed* to run every game I have (including
>Microprose's Memory Hogs, sorry but you need at least 640 KB of conventional
>memory ;-(
>
>But without Memory managers? You still have to boot up with
>HIMEM.SYS (at least).
>  For running MPs F1GP, I have to omit the
>german keyboard driver and some of the small TSRs that make DOS-
>Sessions more comfortable.
>DESCENT runs perfectly, but *faster*?
>I'ld like to say, as fast as under plain DOS6 (maximum), but not faster
--
>(btw, how should it do that?)
Because most video cards released now are optimized for Windows graphic use rather than
Dos graphic use. This optimization will help games be faster than in the equivalent Dos based
enviroment. There are, of course, millions of other factors that pushes or slows down this
effect but regarding the speed issues this is a major factor.
--
Anyhu, I think it will be easier to run games under Win95. At least, there should be less
of those irritating midi blues. I base this on my experience with games through Win 3.11 
compared to Dos 6.22. Even on selecting GM through Dos with KQ6 I get a sound that
is less sophisticated than the one I get with the Win 3.11 version. Sounds stupid, but still, 
reality is reality.

Sven
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From: sv...@oslonett.no (Sven Anders Robbestad)
Subject: Re: W95 Game Platform OS is great
Date: 1995/07/11
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