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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.

>  Mike

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>  mikem@travis.csd.harris.com  Mike McCole  305-973-5466
>  2101 W. Cypress Creek Road  Ft. Lauderdale FL 33309 MS 143
>  All opinions expressed are mine, not Harris Corporations.

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