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Article #3591Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games
From: rno...
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 00:00
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In <Kuzma.115...@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, Ku...@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Cyber Ice) writes: >Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 18:59:05 GMT > >In article <3vchk5$n...@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> x...@ix.netcom.com (Ken) writes: >>From: x...@ix.netcom.com (Ken) >>Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games >>Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 08:45:05 GMT > >>bar...@BIX.com (barryn on BIX) wrote: > > > >>>You mean -- close all my files; exit my apps; unload Win9x; then >>>run the game? Tedious. I'm too impatient to go through all that work. > >>>OS/2 lets you run games in full-screen DOS sessions without closing >>>files and apps. Concurrent access. Multi-tasking. > >> As does Win95 .. you know, for a technical author I would expect you >>to have at least a passing familiarity with this stuff. > >> It is not uncommon around here to run net Descent games ull scree >>while software transfers or compiles are happening. > >> Full screen dos, concurrent processing on both 16 and 32 bit software. > >you can even do it in a window instead of full screen. try that with WARP! :) Huh? I've had Descent running in a windowed Dos session in Warp.. :) Rick Orwig Team OS/2
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From: rno...@databank.com Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games Date: 1995/08/02 Message-ID: <3vp2fe$mp@news1.databank.com> X-Deja-AN: 107418700 references: <3t91i2$3gt@oslo-nntp.eunet.no> <3t99np$74c@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <3t9e83$f4q@oslo-nntp.eunet.no> <3t9oft$85n@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <DB84JC.4nq@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <3tf6g5$atg@seymour.sfu.ca> <DBBu9L.Av6@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <3 <Kuzma.115.0008FC5D@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu> organization: Databank InterNet News Host reply-to: rno...@databank.com newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit