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Yann Nicolas (yn...@merhaba.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
> OK... So I was a little afraid of installing Windows 95 over my old
> DOS 6.2/Windows 3.11 because I am a big gamer and thought that most
> games (read Wing Commander III and other "heavy" games) would not
> work...

> Well think again... For a while I thought I *had* to run all my DOS programs
> in a window and realized that eventhough most normal games would still
> work (X-COM 2, Doom, etc...) other wouldn't (System Shock, Wing
> Commander III, etc...). A little bummed out, I read the (great) help file and
> finally realized that you can actually allocate all your computer
> resources to your DOS programs... After a normal installation of the
> game (any) in a DOS box, you can go to the Windows Explorer (Win95's
> file manager), select the .exe program of the game, chose properties
> and then chose to run it as a DOS program... Now, the "neat" feature
> is that you can assign a different config.sys and autoexec.bat to
> *each* program... That's great because you can finally easily optimize
> each settings...

> Of course, it took a little twitching for some games (WC3 was a little
> hard for me), but once it's done, it works flawlessly... 

> There ya go, my $0.02 gaming opinion of Windows 95...

> Opinions/comments/questions welcome... :)

> PS: OS/2 users will tell me that "OS/2 did that a long time ago", but
> I tried it and didn't like it...

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I assume you're talking about a Beta Version, since even MicroSoft aren't 
expecting the full version out until the end of the year (as far as I know).
If you are, I have two questions:
1. Is it compatible with the latest version of Stacker, since I'm buggered
if I'll decopmress my disk just to have a look.
2. Where did you get it from? Is it publicly available?

Steve