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- From: mrbill@leland.Stanford.EDU (William Bowen)
- Subject: Re: Maximum Overkill under OS/2 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.003652.7308@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <vpsoc.723960139@manning> <sal8.239.724186295@po.cwru.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 00:36:52 GMT
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- In article <sal8.239.724186295@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
- >In article <vpsoc.723960139@manning> vpsoc@cs.UAlberta.CA (Rob Eitzen) writes:
- >>From: vpsoc@cs.UAlberta.CA (Rob Eitzen)
- >>Subject: Maximum Overkill under OS/2 ?
- >>Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 04:02:19 GMT
- >>Has anyone tried (and been successful) in running Maximum Overkill (the
- >>helicopter simulator) under OS/2? There is some sort of himem error
- >>that I can't seem to fix.
- >>Does anyone know the settings to run this game?
- >>Thanks.
- >
- >Sure. It's called booting to plain dos or using someone else's computer.
- >
- >The dumb thing requires that it be able to put the processor in V86 mode
- >itself, and since OS/2 does that already for DOS sessions, it dies.
- >
- >I deleted it. I suggest you whine at the company for being so stupid as to
- >make a program that is completely incompatible with:
- >Windows 3.1
- >OS/2
- >QEMM
- >386Max
- >and EMM386.EXE which comes with dos!
- >
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >steve luzynski @ case western reserve university in cleveland, oh
- >sal8@po.cwru.edu | voice calls cheerlessly accepted at x2153.
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >happy people are deluding themselves that there is nothing wrong.
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >life is but a series of bitter dissapointments.
-
- Maximum Overkill does _not_ use v86 mode; in order to maximize performance,
- it uses protected mode. All of the above listed memory managers put the CPU
- in v86 mode, hence Maximum Overkill requires HIMEM.SYS or HIDOS.SYS to run.
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- Regards,
-
- Bill
- mrbill@leland.stanford.edu
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