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Re: Games under Win95? HAHAHA!!

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From: decu... John D. DeCuir
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:00
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ge...@ahcbsd1.ovnet.com (Gene) wrote:

>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!!!!!!!!!!!)

Try playing Pitfall.  It's one of the best-looking and best-playing
games I've ever seen for the PC.  Of course, I personally can't wait
until the Win95 version of Descent II  ;)
  -John
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Subject: Re: Games under Win95? HAHAHA!!
Date: 1995/08/31
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