[comp.windows.ms] Balance of Power and Windows 3.0

jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) (08/30/90)

I was wondering if anybody had tried running Balance of Power under
Windows 3.0, in any of the windows modes.  (I know it was written for
1.X, so I wouldn't be surprised if it dies in standard mode.)  Does
it work at all, and is it as slow as it is with the included run-time
version of Windows 1.X?
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gyugyi@portia.Stanford.EDU (Paul Gyugyi) (08/31/90)

I'm running Balance of Power 1990 edition under Win 3.0 with no
problems.  The 1990 edition did away with hard disk protection,
and uses a manual-lookup instead.  The game ran really slow at first
because I was running at 800x600 resolution.  Resizing the window to
close to 640x480 made it run much much faster.  I guess it was stretching
all the bit maps or something.
But it works fine.
Paul Gyugyi
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