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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: b... Brad Grossman
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00
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...welp, here are my experiences with Win 95.  The good point and bad point 
with Win 95 and DOS games is that you pretty much run whatever you are going 
to run from a DOS full-screen prompt.  If things don't work right, there 
really isn't much you can change...unless you are willing to run it in MS-DOS 
mode which basically shelves Win 95 and basically puts you in DOS.  Nothing 
can run in the background of this.  Here are my limited experiences with a few 
games:

Descent:  Ran for a bit, OK.  Left the window, came back, few seconds later, 
full system crash.

Doom II:  Perfectly (on a P5-90)

WC 3: Perfectly....until you switch away....once you switch away, you can't 
come back.

X-com 2, Master of Orion: Perfectly...though sound my drop out after a few 
re-loads in X-com 2.

Mortal Kombat II:  Runs but the screen goes black with the exception of the 
strength bars.

As for Win 3.1 progs...it'll run 'em all...with the exception of those that 
access the HD directly, and those you can often use if you use the LOCK 
command.
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From: b...@primenet.com (Brad Grossman)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/19
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