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Re: Games under Win95? HAHAHA!!

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From: ste... Stephen Oakes
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:00
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In article <4230ac$6...@news.mountain.net>, ge...@ahcbsd1.ovnet.com says...

>If that cheesy 'Hover' game is ANY indication of how, 'smooth', games
>can run under Win95 using the built in routines offered by Win95......
>I'll stick with DOS!! I mean, the game updated at like 1 frame every
>20 seconds.
> And if ONE person says I have a slow system and it runs nice on THEIR
>system...... I'll personally hunt you down and beat you up for being so
>stupid! I'm not some newbie with a 386SX-16.
> The game is slow on every system I've seen it on. That ranges from
>DX4-100s to P90s to my P133 with a Stingray PCI video card. (Pumping
>out 132fps in 3DBench!!!!!!!!!!!)

You must have a slow system and it runs nice on MY system......
What are you, some newbie with a 386SX-16?

Sut beriously, it runs pretty well in a smallish window on my
DX4(100) with some sort of S3 in it running at 1024x768, 256 colours.

Mind you, I think the game is pretty boring.

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Stephen Oakes                       CSIRO Australia
ste...@mel.dbce.csiro.au          Division of Building,
Tel: +61 3 252 6000            Construction and Engineering.
Fax: +61 3 252 6249          PO Box 56, Highett, Victoria, 3190
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Subject: Re: Games under Win95? HAHAHA!!
Date: 1995/08/31
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