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Eugen Woiwod (Eugen_...@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote:
> > Running games in a window?  That's been in OS/2 for years.
> Yeah like maybe 2 years with OS/2 2.x, and now OS/2 warp which is HIGHLY
> overated. and before that, well no one ran OS/2 v1.x anyways :-)

Yep.  Both Win95 and OS/2 3.0 are highly overated as a gaming
platform.  At least OS/2 have GalCiv to show.  After so many Windows3.x
games released, only Stars! is original(not Mac port) and worth
mentioning.  Will Win95 games at least match DOS games or flop like   
Out Post?  We will see...

> > From your comments I'll bet you don't know that Windows 95
> > is 16-bit.
> ONLY some part's of it are 16 bit, pretty much to maintain compatibility
> with the TON of Windows 3.0, 3.1, and DOS software out on the market. WIN95
> is more compatibile with windows & Dos programs then OS/2 WARP is anyways

Don't count on it.  Ask Microsoft about their list 200+ Win16 apps
that don't work under Win95.  It can't run my friend's Turbo C++ 3.0
unless reboot to MS-DOS mode.  It's just a text mode DOS program, no
sound, no graphic, no DOS extender.

>[...]
> and it showed, I liked the performance of the WIN95 apps :-) and it goes to
> show how well WIN95 ran my WIn 3.x software and Terminate, DOOM and DOOM2,
> Vga Planets, Qedit, News Xpress, Paint Shop Pro etc. DOOM and DOOM2 dont
> work all that great under OS/2 warp, Vga Planets works fine even on a 286,
> no problem there. Qedit should work,

Qedit works under ANYTHING.

> News Xpress probably wouldnt work
> under WIN95,

Oops!  So much for your "very good" compatibility of Win95.

> and Paint Shop Pro v3.0 probably doesnt work under OS/2 WARP.

Why?  Because it don't work with your Win95?


>[...]  And if
> you find a game or DOS app that doesn't run under WIN95 properly(e.g say in
> full screen or in a window) then you can use MS-DOS mode, which is more
> "elegant" then using boot disks for fussy dos app's/games.

You are not stupid enough to use boot disk, do you?  I use
multi-config when I first got my 386DX 4 years ago.  I was using
DOS 4.01 with a 3rd party software for boot menu until DOS 6.0 come
out years later with multi-config built in.  Boot disk was never needed.
The reason why there is still so many boot sector virus floating
around is because people still use boot disk instead of taking a few
minutes to learn multi-config.

And OS/2 support dual-boot since very earily version, possibly 1.0.

> >   It should.  It's sad since my computers
> > have been 32 bit since the 1980's.
> Yeah with just Unix since the 60's, big whoop <g>

In terms of OS performance, Unix out perform NT, Win95 and OS/2.
But of course you don't want to play games under Unix.

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