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Article #2490Re: Win95 and games: good news...
From: Dave Morris
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 00:00
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>> Well the DOS that is installed via WIN95 seemed pretty crippled. And not all >> games work with it. >> For example: MPS/Master of Magic & Master of Orion both failed to run with >> sound enabled. The "new" dos is missing even basic features such as DELTREE, >> XCOPY, etc. >> I ran build 445 WIN95 for about 4 days, and then re-installed WFW 3.11 & PC >> DOS 7.0. More compatible, and that is the issue not how cool the OS looks, or >> how cool it runs. Since an OS that runs really nice but won't run your >> software is just another way of describing the MAC & AMIGA's. >> > >Odd, I ran Masters of Magic just fine under Win 95. I just set everything to AUTO and >it runs just as fast as dos. I have the pre-release final beta that I >ordered from Microsoft. I believe it is build 347. I don't know what >you mean about dos "missing" basic features since I just used xcopy before and >use deltree a lot. Although I prefer Windows explorer now. > It is too bad that many people think they can write about a topic when they really have no idea what they are talking about or are doing with there PC's! Thanks to the guy that cleared up Masters of Magic! It is nice to see someone is paying attention to reality! /DM'-) I am a WINDOWS 95 user! And I am Proud of it! There I am out of the closet!
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From: Dave Morris <dmo...@globalx.net> Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news... Date: 1995/04/30 Message-ID: <3o0jdg$id8@news.globalx.net> X-Deja-AN: 101734895 references: <3mtquj$hq2@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <D77pB0.8BD@caprica.com> <3n0iv0$7p5@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91a.950420095147.20490A-100000@christa.unh.edu> <D7DAJD.2u7@caprica.com> <cptstern.386.0027087C@Cyberquest.com> <3nupd3$kfk@crow.cybercom.com> to: wul...@raven.cybercom.com organization: Global-X-Change mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc x-mailer: Mozilla 1.1b2 (Windows; I; 16bit) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit