Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: rsro... Robert Rodgers
Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 00:00

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In article <3o5bbl$d...@redstone.interpath.net>,
jump...@fortunat.pdial.interpath.net wrote:
>In <9uNflO9R...@wam.umd.edu>, rsro...@wam.umd.edu (Robert Rodgers) writes:
>>In article <3o2gss$o...@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>,
>>dmcc...@sitvxa.stevens-tech.edu (Daniel McCarty) wrote:
>>>	Then, after your finished playing a game, it reloads win95.
>>>	Quite a pain.  Would've been nicer if they could've done it like
>>>	OS/2's virtual "dos" sessions, but I guess they ran into some
>>>	limitations...
>>
>>Possibly, like wanting to run games like Doom with sound.
>
>  This is a poor example.  An informed person would know that the reason that
>the sound in Doom doesn't work under OS/2 is because of a bug in the sound code.

No, the reason that Doom doesn't run under OS/2 with sound
is because OS/2 doesn't support Doom with sound.  Pinning
the finger on a "bug" that prevents it from running under an
environment for which it wasn't designed is like saying that
Doom doesn't run under Softwindows because of a "bug."

>This problem also surfaces under some DOS environments. 

Only on PS/2s, another IBM product.

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From: rsro...@wam.umd.edu (Robert Rodgers)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/05/02
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