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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

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