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Article #3533Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games
From: Eugen... Eugen Woiwod
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <barryn.8...@BIX.com>, bar...@BIX.com (barryn on BIX) writes: > > Msg-ID: <barryn.8...@BIX.com> > References: <3t > Posted: 22 Jul 95 21:36:11 GMT > > Org. : Delphi Internet Services Corporation > > saro...@Direct.CA (Shaya Roudafshan) writes: > :Windows 95 can do this... no problem. If you have 4 megs o' ram, set > :the program to run in DOS-MODE and it runs BETTER than it runs in dos > :6.22 and below... cause it runs in dos 7.0. > > Eh? What's so wonderful about DOS 7? My budget for DOS upgrades went > to zero years ago. Is there a single feature in DOS 7 I should be > willing to spend money on? > > :For Windows 95... NO problem whatsoever. Again... run in MS-DOS MODE > :if you have 4 megs of ram. > > 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. > > Barry Nance > author of "Using OS/2 Warp", "Introduction to Networking", > "Client/Server LAN Programming", "Networking Windows for Workgroups", > and "Connecting with LAN Server". BYTE Magazine Contributing Editor. DID anyone BY CHANCE notice this is a GAMES GROUP and not a STUPID W95 vs OS/2 versus every other god damn OS in the world group? I COME here to read about GAMES, not tons of msg's on W95 or OS/2!
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From: Eugen_...@mindlink.bc.ca (Eugen Woiwod) Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games Date: 1995/07/22 Message-ID: <74894-806458569@mindlink.bc.ca> X-Deja-AN: 106703322 distribution: world organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit