From: Subash
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Bran Everseeking
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> to get windows 95 preloads at a "partner" rate ibm was required by MS to
>> not market WARP. what theyt laked was the balls to take on ms at that
>> time.
> One major factor that lead to Window's dominance rather than OS/2's is
> that much of the enthusiast community shunned OS/2 due to its utter
> incompatibility with dos4gw-based applications (and similar
> direct-hardware-access based software) and thus pretty much every
> major game of the mid-1990's. Windows 3.1 could just be shut down and
> the game run in DOS and Win95 had MUCH better support for DOS games
> than OS/2.
that more or less gels with my recollection. ;-) in the summer or a
little later of 1995 the then-leading english language pc magazine
here in india called pcquest gave away the complete OS/2 Warp free on
a CD. i do remember friends saying that things like doom and quake
which were the rage then wouldn't run on it... another reason why it
didn't make much of an impact then was that most of the PCs were
running pirated windows anyway, with the tacit encouragement from MS,
of course... :(
Oddly enough Doom COULD run under OS/2 Warp. It wouldn't run full
screen, but you could run it in a window.
I dunno about Quake, because I didn't have a copy.
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