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Article #1740Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-)
From: jma... Joseph T. Malloy
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <DBpq5...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> rjva...@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Rob Vanden Heuvel) writes: >> Yep this is the point everyone seems to have missed. MS have included a >> facility for games in Win95. When developers start writing games for >> Win95 we should see a great improvement over games written for DOS. >> Can't see games being written specificaly for OS/2............!! > >What you may have missed is that we have yet to be introduced to ANY game >for Win95 which performs better than under plain old DOS. Even Microsoft's >own attempt at a game (called "Hover") was a dog. "Hover" is likely a demonstration of what can be done with Windows 95; it has good graphics and sound, though nothing (I assume) to rival the best games out there. If there's one thing it is not, however, it is a canine!
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From: jma...@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy) Subject: Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-) Date: 1995/07/16 Message-ID: <3ub3vj$l92@itsmail1.hamilton.edu> X-Deja-AN: 106329556 organization: Hamilton College newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit