[geeks] [rescue] Video card request

Dan Duncan dand at pcisys.net
Mon Nov 28 11:35:13 CST 2005


On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> And people wonder why I have lost interest in PC games.  I want to
> *play* them, not take on a full-time job keeping track of what I need to
> to to make them work!

This is why I loved OS/2 so much back when I played a lot of games.  Rather
than trial-and-error playing with memory managers, device drivers, multiple
config.sys files, etc, I could just launch a DOS session with the device drivers
loaded AND the full 640k of conventional memory free and play any game I wanted.  I
got DOS games to work in OS/2 that I could never get running in DOS.  The
funniest part was to show people Wing Commander and X-wing running at the same
time in DOS windows and watch their heads explode.

-DanD

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