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- Subject: Re: os/2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.185203.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 02:52:03 GMT
- References: <1993Jan10.3211.18399@dosgate>
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- Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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- In article <1993Jan10.3211.18399@dosgate>, "joe kuroda" <joe.kuroda@canrem.com> writes:
- >
- >
- > In article <1993Jan7.135233.7528@apgea.army.mil>
- > rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
- > writes:
- >
- >>>Does anyone have a list of what games work, and work well, under os/2 2.0?
- >
- > RC4So far, the only games that I can't run under os/2 is ultima 7, Overkill,
- > 4and Sherlock holsm CD games.
- >
- > I needed to tweak games like Wolfenstein 3-D and Jill of Jungle,
- > though, they just got frozen or were extremely s-l-o-w.
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- No amount of tweaking will get Comanche or Ultima VII to work under OS/2.
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- Comanche needs to be in 386 protected mode, which is a no-no under OS/2.
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- And Ultima VII insists of using their own Voodoo memory manager. OS/2 will
- do its own memory management, to ensure stability.
-
- -- McD.eXodus.IST
-