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- From: dmd39855@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel DuBois)
- Subject: Re: Civilization under Windows 3.1
- References: <1993Jan12.054046.3068@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 07:26:35 GMT
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- wanderer@athena.mit.edu (Hobbes) writes:
-
- >Whenever I run Civilization under Windows, it gets really slow on my
- >486/33... it gets slower than on a 386sx/16! Does anyone know how to fix
- >this,
-
- Dont run it under windows.
-
- Seriously, alot of DOS game have problems under MS Windows, like Lemmings.
- Even if you give it exclusive power in the window setup thingy, windows
- is still sucking CPU in the background a little. Windows sux anyway.
- Get OS/2 (having no idea whether this would help the problem, I laugh
- aloud, sharing my MS Windows bigotry with the net, and spitting in the
- face of diplomacy.)
-
- or if one of the newer versions fixes it? (Also, what is new about
- >the master edition? better graphics or anything? should I bother buying
- >that one?) Thanks!
-
- I hear the Masters Edition is pbbbblt. Civ with a nice mouse pad.
-
- -Dan
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