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- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2, VERY cool!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.120454.21450@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 12:04:54 GMT
- Article-I.D.: actrix.1992Aug19.120454.21450
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- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <roeschmf.714115669@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> roeschmf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Martin F. Roesch) writes:
- > mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole) writes:
- >
- > > 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.
- >
- > > Mike
- >
- > Mike,
- > Apparently you don't think much about the way U7 was implemented. It uses
- > a proprietary memory manager that doesn't get along with ANYTHING except
- > plain vanilla DOS. Try running U7 with QEMM386 running. Now try it with
- > 386MAX running. Now try it with DOS 5.0 Himem and EMM386 running. Notice a
- > pattern yet? Try it under Windoze. Try it under DR DOS 6.0s mem manager.
- > If you pay attention, it won't work with any of them! Game companies should
- > stick to making games, not reinventing the memory manager.
- > As to your assertion that OS/2 won't run games that tax the hardware, how
- > about Falcon 3.0D? It runs under OS/2 just dandy, because it uses an already
- > established standard for memory management. As a matter of fact many games
- > not only run well under OS/2, they run better than they do under DOS!
- >
- > Marty
- > roeschmf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
-
- Another point.....
-
- Since OS/2 allows *each* DOS program up to 512 *megabytes* of DPMI memory, it
- could be the *ULTIMATE* games machine! Especially with the MMPM/2 multi-media
- extensions (now shipping from an IBM near you).
-
- Steve
-
- --
- Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand | If you don't vote for MMP on
- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz | September 19, 1992, then you
- withers_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz | must like things the way they
- **** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! **** | are.....can I live with YOU?
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