home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Excerpts from Compu$erve discussion on new DOOM for Windows
-
-
-
- From what I've read on WinDoom, it will use the new WING api for windows.
- This is a high performance graphics API specifically targeted to make
- Windows/Chicago a more suitable games platform, with performance approaching
- native DOS. I'm sure I read somewhere, that with a graphics co-processor or
- accelerator running under windows, performance might even be better than the
- dos version, since the DOS version would not take advantage of an accelerator
- where the windows drivers would.
-
-
-
- Actually, I can talk about this with some authority. I've been writing
- Windows video drivers for the past 4 years or so. I thought that WinG was
- primarily designed to let games access the frame buffer directly, so that
- they can do things like Doom, which are not well supported under the GDI
- programming model. (I need to read more about WinG, I may be mistaken about
- this.)
-
-
-
- Do you suppose the present versions of Doom will be upgraded to these
- new Windows version?
-
- I don't know. I'd think they'd do the Windows port to Doom: Hell On Earth,
- which is due out later this year. I think id is trying to stablize the
- current version of DOOM, so that they can move on to other things.
-
-
-
- Do you think it will run under NT?
-
- Who knows. MS has promised WinG for Windows 3.1 and for Chicago. I don't
- know if they have an NT version in the works or not.
-
-
-
- WinDoom shown at the Game Developer's Conference was running only
- SLIGHTLY slower than the DOS version at 640 by 480 (stretched). And it
- was running on Win 3.1 with WinG, not Chicago. Why do we need WinDoom?
- No hassle with config.sys, sound drivers, video drivers, memory managers
- is a good place to start. Personally I hate to get of Windows or reboot
- to play Doom all the time.
-
-
-
- After downloading the screen shot of Windoom, with Excel 4.0 in the
- background, I'm convinced that we NEED Windoom. At work, it is so
- counter-productive to have to quit windows each time we play some
- net-doom. It would be much easier to just click on the icon. And for
- years I've been saying that "Alt-Tab" is the greatest "boss" key
- ever programmed!
-
- Now if I could find a way to get some *work* done at work....
-