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Article #901Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
From: gl... Yevgeny Glazamitsky
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 00:00
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In article <801975...@hkchan.pc.my>, Chan Hoong Keong <hkc...@hkchan.pc.my> wrote: > >In article <3qfsn9$p...@grok.provo.Novell.COM> glu...@novell.com writes: > > > Windows 95 has MultiBoot, so when you press F4 while the > > display indicates "Starting Windows 95" you can go back to your > > previous OS - meaning DOS 6.22 in my case. > > > > And DOS mode is totally compatible as far as I'm concerned. Why > > woulodn't it be? > > The DOS mode in Win95 works with all the games I have tried. Although > I find OMF plays slightly slower in that environment. Then you haven't tried enough games. Try Ishar 3. I am yet to find a single problem running it in DOS 6.2, but it wouldn't even start in DOS mode in Wind95. > Anyway, most people do not consider MS-DOS mode as Win95. It is just > DOS with some improvement, like long filename. Yes, it is just DOS. That makes the failure to run a DOS game even more inexcusable.
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From: gl...@io.com (Yevgeny Glazamitsky) Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96) Date: 1995/06/01 Message-ID: <3ql63f$je1@pentagon.io.com> X-Deja-AN: 103612695 references: <3qfsn9$pot@grok.provo.Novell.COM> <801975401snx@hkchan.pc.my> organization: Illuminati Online newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit