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- From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander II under OS/2
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- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 16:31:37 GMT
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- In article <78240@ut-emx.uucp> ifam655@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jeff Lessem) writes:
- >I have heard that Wing Commander II should run fine under OS/2, but I am
- >having trouble. I can play for a while, until I die or complete a mission
- >and then OS/2 gives me an error. I don't remember they sysxxxx number, but
- >it means an illegal 386 instruction was issued. At first I beleived the
- >problem had to do with an error in WC2, as I had to make a copy of one of
- >the original disks because it had errors and would not install. Then I loaded
- >WC2 on a DOS machine and it worked fine.
- >BTW, while WC2 is running under OS/2 it is faster. The disk access is much
- >faster with HPFS than with FAT.
- >If anybody has any suggestions, could you please send them to me.
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- My son had a problem with WC II. In some cases, when getting out of
- autopilot, WC II would crash under OS/2.
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- Replacing the kernel with the newer one made that problem go away.
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- Luc B
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