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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

#2495
From: rsro... Robert Rodgers
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <799036...@markbz.demon.co.uk>,
Ma...@markbz.demon.co.uk (Mark Rogers) wrote:
>In article <cptstern.3...@Cyberquest.com>
>           cpts...@Cyberquest.com "Capt Stern" writes:
>> 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

MOM CD runs fine, with sound, here.  You might submit a bug.

>With the lastest beta's you can boot into REAL Dos 6.22 totally compatible
>as it IS dos 6.22 etc (or whatever version you had installed). 
>If you press F4 when it says 'starting windows 95'... you get your old

You have *always* been able to do this.  The best thing to do, though,
is to add the following to your Win95-boot MSDOS.SYS (you'll need to
attrib -r -a -s -h msdos.sys and then re-attrib it):

Under [options]
BootMulti=1
BootMenu=1
BootMenuDelay=5
BootMenuDefault=1

>F4 won't work in the middle beta's unless you edit the msdos.sys 
>(described in the Beta notes) but it works fine in the newest beta's.

This works a lot better than hitting F4 at just the right time.
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From: rsro...@wam.umd.edu (Robert Rodgers)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/28
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