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Re: Wing Command I and OS/2

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From: wcs... Segura William C
Date: Wed, 05 May 1993 15:01
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>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.

>I have the 'usual' settings for games in effect.   The machine is a
>66DX-2 w/local bus Orchid Farenheit, 8meg.   Everything seems fine
>until it hangs.

>Any ideas?  Anyone else having a similar problem with WC?


>--Golden

I have managed to get WC I to run under OS/2 2.0 GA w/ SP.  Although I sometimes have problems with timing on my Sound Blaster other than that it works OK.  I've never seen the 2.1 beta so I don't know if the DOS session settings have changed any.  



William Segura
wcs...@usl.edu
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