Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: tme... Tom Mealey
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 00:00

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In article <3n5u8l$d...@hq.hq.af.mil>, bam...@gaps32.comm.hq.af.mil (Dale McPherson) writes:
>In article <sjYhE4C00...@andrew.cmu.edu>, mb...@andrew.cmu.edu says...
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>Your good for a laugh yourself.  PC Gamer also rated Galactic Civilizations 
>a score of 78 out of 100, which is mediocre.  This from a magazine that has 
>4 to 6 Editor's Choice Award winner's(88 out of 100) A MONTH.  Also, I've 
>been playing with '95 and the dos-based DOOM runs under it just great.  On 
>a 486-33 with 8 MB RAM no less.  I just dbl-click the icon in Explorer and 
>away it goes.  No slow-down, no reconfiguring, no rebooting, no special new 
>version for my OS, no worries.  I also tried WinDoom, but dumped it because 
>the version I have doesn't have multi-play. However, the graphics are good 
>and it ran great.
>
>Dale
>

Dale, next time drag the icon from Explorer onto the desktop.  This creates a
shortcut and you can edit the properties.  Then you just click on the icon on
the desktop rather than go through Explorer.  Real simple, real fast, and real
easy.  Gotta love it! :)

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From: t_me...@smcvax.smcvt.edu (Tom Mealey)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/24
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