From: gulcu@masg1.epfl.ch (Ceki Gulcu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Some OS/2 2.0 Questions:
Date: 9 Apr 92 09:16:48 GMT
Reply-To: lbdsun6.epfl.ch
Organization: EPFL, Physics Department

In article <dano.702770542@srl06.cacs.usl.edu>, dano@usl.edu (Dan Stephenson) writes:
|> 1) I have several BIG MSDOS games, such as Wing Commander II and Falcon
|> 3.0.
|>    How well will these work under the MSDOS for OS/2 2.0?

 I've tried Wing Commander II under a beta version of OS/2 2.0 without
 problems.

|> 2) If I plan to get Stacker, willl it work with OS/2 2.0, or does OS/2
|> 2.0 come
|> with a hard disk compression utility.

 This question is becoming more and more popular. There is no way you could
 boot OS/2 on a stacker drive. That's for sure! You could (maybe) access
 a stacker drive using the VDMs (Virtual Dos Machines) under OS/2, but I have
 not tried this. Thus, DOS sessions and programs would see the drive but not
 OS/2 ones. Can anybody confirm this?

 
|> 3) CAN I run full-up VGA MSDOS (games) in an OS/2 2.0 MSDOS window? Of
|> course,
|>    some will surely be obscured,...but still,...

 No sweat!

|> 4) Will the OS/2 2.0 I get be absolutely, postively, in *every* single
|> facet be
|> 32-bit- ALL THE WAY??

 I do not know if each and every single OS/2 function is 32bits. However,
 the memory menagement is 32bits. Beleive me, thats a change!

|> 5) Windows applications will run _relly_ well on the OS/2 2.0 desktop??

 I haven't tried the GA yet! On an early beta Windows support was average.
 DOS support great!
 
|> 6) I just read the OS/2 FAQ, and the Applets for OS/2 2.0 do not
|> obviously conta
|> in a Word Processor.  An 'enhanced text editor' is mentioned, though.
|> But,
|> if Windows applications are supported 'seamlessly' , then I guess I can
|> keep usi
|> ng Write, right?
 
 Right!
 
|> 7) Is there a 800 help line for OS/2 (2.0) ??

 Donno. I mean there must be...
 
|> 8) If I eventually get a SoundBlaster Pro (etc) for my 386, will MSDOS
|> games
|> using it (under OS/2 2.0) use the sound card just fine?

 SoundBlaster is fine. SoundBlaster PRO caused occasional problems under the
 beta versions. This might be fixed in GA though...


|> [BTW, thanks again- I know a ot of these are MSDOS/Window and not OS/2
|> related-
|> but that's inportant to me right now]
|> 
|> 9) What in the hell is with all these fonts?  I gather it's
|> important--for somet
|> hing?  Scalable fonts? huh?

 I am afraid I do not understand your question.

|> 10) Can I have a bitmap (.bmp, like from Windows) as a 'wallpaper'?

 No sweat! You can have 'wallpapers' per folder.

|> 11) With this HPFS thing, I can files called:
|> my.term.paperduenextfriday.01
|>     or something like that? What limit is there?

 Yes. You can even have: "My term paper - due next friday. (5th of April 92)"
 as a file name.

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