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Article #117Re: Wing Command I and OS/2
From: low... Lowell Morrison
Date: Wed, 05 May 1993 19:14
Date: Wed, 05 May 1993 19:14
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In article <1s3o5r$f...@bcarhd4.bnr.ca> bjm...@bcarh30a.bnr.ca (Brad Mills) writes: >In article <1s3kjo...@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu> gric...@cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard) writes: >>I'm having a problem w/ Wing Commander I hanging during game play >>under OS/2 (March beta). The action simply freezes and the machine >>is dead; a reset is needed at this point. >>Any ideas? Anyone else having a similar problem with WC? > >I had the same problem, with OS/2 2.0. Can't offer you any advice, though. > >Brad I had the same problem under DOS, so it is not unique to OS/2. Since Wing Commander does a lot of hardware (screen mostly) direct addressing, it is quite suprising that it runs under OS/2 at all. --Uncle Wolf
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.os.os2.misc Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!orchard.la.locus.com!prodnet.la.locus.com!lowell From: low...@locus.com (Lowell Morrison) Subject: Re: Wing Command I and OS/2 Message-ID: <1993May05.191424.1000979@locus.com> Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California References: <1s3kjoINNcju@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1s3o5r$fpr@bcarhd4.bnr.ca> Date: Wed, 05 May 93 19:14:24 GMT Lines: 17 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit