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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: vhe... Victor Healey
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 00:00
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Mark you did not post the truth about PC gammer and their comments on OS/2.
They said it might be a choice if you do not favor action games but 
rather strategy games like chess etc. They are well aware that basically 
os/2 is a slug when it comes to running anything but os/2 progams. There 
is only one quality os/2 only game.. GAlitic Civilization and I bet it 
will be ported to W95 in a few years if those folks want to make any real 
money. 

Just to show you the difference if you have a copy of both Warp and W95 
final release try this.

Run the best video that os/2 has. I remember the one that had the two 
parrots necking, another with fish, a multimedia flight thru a city.
Look at the size of the orginal files. Look at how jerky they are if you 
are doing anything else. Notice that they run in a relativle small box 
and last note you can only run ONE of them in this multi tasking OS.

Look at the W95 CD and find FUNSTUFF, go to videos and then pick my 
favorite "Goodtimes". Small box ?  Grab the side and pull. Did you notice 
you can make that thing full screen and it still works! I ran that last 
night at a programers house after we installed W95 on his machine while 
he was running scandisk on his C: drive. Didn't miss a beat on his machine.

But what really is interesting is that you can run more then one video 
or several copies of the same video. Obviously this works best if you try 
running them from a scsi hard drive as the disk i/o is pretty intense.
Now personally I think that is neat! That is what I expect of a multi 
tasking, multi threading os on the expensive hardware I have. WARP just 
isn't as polished IMHO.

VGH
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From: vhe...@crl.com (Victor Healey)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/23
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