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- From: mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2, VERY cool!
- Message-ID: <9262@travis.csd.harris.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 23:45:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.205648.23544@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- ->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.
- ->
- ->
-
- Fred,
- Ultima VII and Civilization are representative of the state of the art
- for PC based games. They are also the two top selling PC games right
- now. I am not slamming OS/2, the market has already done that. Any
- application that expects to have comlete control of sytem resources is
- going to be problematic for OS/2 or any true multitasking operating
- system on a PC. My comments about OS/2 as an operating system for a machine
- that primarily runs games stand. I suggest you look up my post that Ed
- replied to and view them in that context.
-
- Mike
-
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