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From: charles... Charles Gregory
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 00:00

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Hi Wim
Wim Verveen gets excited whenever you mention Re: Win95 and games: good news...!

 > Or, ever cursed those <expletive> protected games which every time
 > ask you to match picture with page of the manual, and your children
 > mixed up the manuals of TIE with DOTT with Sam'n Max.
 > With OS/2, it becomes very minor annoyance. Suppose, a few years ago
 > you were very pleased with Railroad Tycoon. Now you see RRT "Deluxe"
 > available on CD, you think, I get the CD, there shouldn't be anymore
 > the game protection, but to your horror you discover it ask the same
 > questions about the same locomotive names. No trouble. Alt-Home (this
 > is OS/2's control which windows the DOS game session), with the mouse
 > paste the locomotives pictures into your favorite drawing program,
 > save it, et voila, every time it asks the same silly names, call up
 > on line your pictures .
 WV> Just tried, works fine under win95
 WV> But I must admit, some games won't run in a window
 But I must wonder, why would you want to????
 As long as Win95 lets you run games without having to reboot, and at
 the same (or better) speed than DOS, and task-switch between them,
 then hey, i'll be happy!

 Seeya
 �
 Charles
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Subject: Win95 and games: good news...
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