Hello All..
Can we let this drop?  This doesn't have anything to do with Apogee/3D 
ealms.
This is better suited for the GAMING conference.
20 Dec 97 14:22, ROGER FINGAS wrote to JACK FARNSWORTH:
 JF>> Roger!
 JF>> In a message to Joe Siegler you wrote:
 RF>> one such person.  .  I wish that one day, these
 RF>> Microsoft-bashers would come to grips with the fact that Windows
 RF>> is here to stay, and that game companies have to make money by
 RF>> writing for the OS most of the public uses!
 JF>> Actually, although I do like Win95 (when it's not crashing or
 JF>> making me look at an hourglass for ten minutes at a stretch), I
 JF>> also have to make a DOS vs Windows observation.  If you agree
 JF>> that having more RAM available (not used by other programs) will
 JF>> help a game run more smoothly, then why would you want to buy
 JF>> more RAM, then kill that benefit by running your game-of-choice
 JF>> under a memory hog like Windows?  Simply by running it under Win
 JF>> instead of DOS you've effectively killed off several megs of
 JF>> available RAM (about 4meg with Win95).  Think how much smoother
 JF>> your game would run under an OS that takes a few hundred K
 JF>> instead of 4 megs.  Not to mention an OS that'll just let the
 JF>> game run instead of one that stops and checks all of its
 JF>> resources every fifteen seconds or so.
 >         I know about the techincal benefits of DOS gaming.  Take
 > Quake, for example: you can run it in windows, but the game's swap
 > space is cut tremendously.  On one system I've run the game on, the
 > game has 29 MB of swap
 > space in DOS.  In Win 95, it's only 9 MB, unless you specifically add
 > a command for more!
 JF>> Sorry, this is getting WAY too off-topic.  I just
 JF>> wanted to point out that there are some good reasons
 JF>> for preferring a DOS-based game to a Win-based one
 JF>> without being a Windows basher!
 >         I can see why, but to put it bluntly, DOS is dead...
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Joe Siegler
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