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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2, VERY cool!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.205648.23544@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 20:56:48 GMT
- References: <165.2A8F4274@gisatl.fidonet.org> <9251@travis.csd.harris.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- Lines: 45
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- In <9251@travis.csd.harris.com> mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole) writes:
-
- >In article <165.2A8F4274@gisatl.fidonet.org> june@f308.n133.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ed June) writes:
- >-On <Aug 14 20:44>, Mike McCole of 1:133/411 wrote to All:
- >-
- >- MM- From: mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole)
- >- MM> Date: 11 Aug 92 01:55:15 GMT
- >- MM> Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division, Fort Lauderdale, FL
- >- MM> Message-ID: <9167@travis.csd.harris.com>
- >- MM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- >-
- >- MM> All good games run under dos, OS/2 will cause you untold
- >- MM> grief trying to run games, it can be done but you have to tweak
- >- MM> for every little wierdness your games come up with.
- >-
- >-Funny, as high speed connections to the bbs are doin' they're thing RELIABLY, I can play, at the same time, any dos game I care to.
- >-
- >-I love it!
- >-Oh, this on a 'low life' 20mHz '386 w/ 8mb memory...
- >-
- >-
- >-
- >---
- >-Ed June
- >-
- >-Fidonet: 1:133/308, Atlanta's OS/2 Users Group BBS, 404-471-1549
-
- >Ed,
-
- > Apparently you don't care to play DOS games that tax your hardware.
- > Try that with the DOS game Ultima VII and post your results.
-
- There are a a small handful of games which don't run correctly under
- OS/2. Of course, you give him one of those and then act like it is
- representative. Ultima VII and Civilization don't run correctly (or
- so I understand). However, the number of DOS games that fail to work
- under OS/2 is smaller than the number of Windows 3.0 programs that
- fail to run under Windows 3.1.
-
-
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