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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

#2490
From: Dave Morris
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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Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/30
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