🚀 go-pugleaf

Jonathan Badger (bad...@phylo.life.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: Tom Pearce <no...@nompear.demon.co.uk> writes:

: >I have read recently that IBM is writing an API so that Win9x programs
: >can easily be recompiled for OS/2 by the programmers [...]

<snip>
: No. You haven't been keeping up with the news in gaming magazines have
: you? Future games such as Wing Commander IV, Warhammer, and Falcon 4
: will be Win 95 native apps. DOS games (and indeed DOS itself) are in
: their final days. There is a LOT of reasons why Win'95 is a better
: gaming platform than DOS -- for one thing you don't have to worry if
: your video or sound card is suppported by the game -- if Windows
: supports it, the game supports it -- and you don't have to have eight or
: ten differnt config.syses either!  And with the WinG graphics library,
: it really isn't much slower than DOS.

Whoopss -

Win95 still uses your config.sys. They just hide it
behind that neat picture with the little blips at
the bottom (looks like a mini startrek).

If you don't believe me just go in there and move it.
I mean you really don't need it - Right.

If you do some stuff may not start and
a blank config.sys will be created.

The autoexec.bat must cantain that stupid
net start command or no net.

Of course since ms claims it isn't used ....

-Terry

Ps the dos underneat is still dos6 + upgrades ... Hmmmm
   (if it was a 32bit dos the command.com, and related files
	would have had to be updated ...)