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On Mon, 27 May 1996 09:05:28 GMT, jkemp@cts.com (James E. Kemp) wrote:

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>>Did you do this in the properties screen for each game, or from the
>>dos screen (shutdown and restart in MS DOS mode?)
>
>The "Properties Screen." The system still shuts down and reset the
>enviroments and drivers, this is the only down fall. It's seems as
>though I'm using a boot disk for each game, I'm just not inserting
>anything in the floppy drive. 

True enough.
>
>>I admit, I don't have a lot of fancy DOS games, so I haven't tested
>>everything.  But there's lots of flexibility in the settings Windows
>>allows you.
>
>I agree. I'm thinking about just adding the settings to my original
>config and autoexec files and put up with knowing that i have two sets
>of drivers loaded. I tried it once and didn't see a big difference in
>the speed. I removed them because I didn't like the ideal of read mode
>and protected mode drivers being loaded. The read mode drivers seem to
>slow Win95 from booting faster also.

And it ain't exactly at warp speed to begin with. :-)
>
>>I can run the same game, Jetfighter II, in Windows and in DOS.
>>WIndows gives me 600K of free memory, DOS only 530K.
>
>Jetfighter II? Is that written by Jane Combat Similations?

No.  It's by Velocity Development out of Palatine, IL.  I got it for
free when I purchased Netroom, a memory manager for Windows 3.1.

I don't play the DOS games very often, but my kids love them.



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