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- From: skylawn@apple.com (Christopher Russo)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.misc,comp.sys.mac.games
- Subject: Re: Humor me and answer this general question, please!
- Message-ID: <34123@goofy.apple.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:06:39 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.173122.23496@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec17.173122.23496@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- David White, David.White@launchpad.unc.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.173122.23496@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- David White, David.White@launchpad.unc.edu writes:
- >So could someone kindly give me a list of some of the
- best shareware games
- >for Macs, and where I can get them? I'm sure there's
- plenty of them, if
- >there's as many available as there are for the IBM, but
- which ones really
- >stand out? (Like WOLF-3D would for the IBM, etc.) Or is
- there a site
- >that has lots of really good stuff with file descriptions.
-
- <sigh>
- Regrettably, mac hardware is too slow to render a game as
- smooth as Wolf-3d. I guess it could be done on some of the
- quadras, but for your average mac... no go.
-
- However, there are some games that do fairly well anyway.
- Maelstrom and Solarian are the only two I can think of
- right
- offhand.
-
- Chris Russo
-