Re: Games under Win95? HAHAHA!!

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From: ch... chris
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:00

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In article <4230ac$6...@news.mountain.net>,
   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!!!!!!!!!!!)
>

No, you're right.  Hover sucks bad...even on 100+s.  Play a few more games and 
you'll see the perf. is just as good as DOS (and that's not even '95 specific 
coding).  Hover is just a _*_POORLY_*_ coded game.

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Date: 1995/08/31
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