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Article #3538Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games
From: ro...
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 00:00
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>You mean -- close all my files; exit my apps; unload Win9x; then >run the game? Tedious. I'm too impatient to go through all that work. > >OS/2 lets you run games in full-screen DOS sessions without closing >files and apps. Concurrent access. Multi-tasking. > True, but the problem is there are a number of games that just don't like Warp (e.g. Under a Killing Moon). Really, having run both Warp and Win95 at home, I find Win95 is able to run more DOS games than OS/2. And you don't always have to reboot and go into MSDOS mode to run the game. Most of the games that I have work just fine under Win95 (even in a window). Nevertheless, it is annoying when you do have to switch to MSDOS mode for the reasons you stated. Rob
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