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Article #3214Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
From: rob... Robert Dejournett
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 00:00
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In article <42t6uh$s...@access1.digex.net>, Robear <rob...@access1.digex.net> wrote: >In article <42rs9f$l...@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au>, >Andrae Muys <a.m...@mailbox.uq.oz.au> wrote: > >>Anyway from experience's associates have had with the dreaded Win95 >>its implementation of DOS is severly flawed. (just try modifying your >>system files for one 'feature'). Personally I'll stick with >>3.xx/Linux and if I need 32-bit Windows I'll go to either WINE, >>DOSemu, or NT. > >>Andrae Muys > >I've run about 30 DOS games, some of them fairly picky about setup, under >W95. Its' DOS seems flawless. Care to tell us how it is flawed? I'd >like to know what to avoid, and right now, everything I've tried works. > >David Pipes How about the sound support? I have a GUS and an original SB and can't get *either* of them to work...The GUS drivers for win3.1 don't work for 95, and the soundblaster I can't a squeak or anything out of ;) THe games actualy seem okay, i ran warcraft and MOM to name just two under 95, but without any sort of sound it is disappointing (sound, voice, or music, that is!) -ROb
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From: rob...@argon.GAS.UUG.Arizona.EDU (Robert Dejournett) Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie! Date: 1995/09/13 Message-ID: <437n53$v98@news.ccit.arizona.edu> X-Deja-AN: 110121595 references: <3v8usi$mci@tornews.torolab.ibm.com> <42lcln$l6b@ionews.ionet.net> <42rs9f$lsr@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> <42t6uh$s2t@access1.digex.net> organization: University of Arizona, Unix Users Group newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit