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- From: daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue)
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- Subject: Re: MacDoom???
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 18:34:17 GMT
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- On Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:46:15 -0600, osiris@cs.utexas.edu wrote:
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- >Not that I know why the original poster wanted to run MacDOOM on a PC,
- >but how about the following:
- >
- >You have either a Linux or NextStep system, and you can't (or don't
- >want to) run Windows or DOS. This could either be because you don't
- >have a partition for DOS, you don't want to reboot every time you want
- >to play DOOM, or your machine doesn't support it (i.e. the NextStep
- >black boxes). Or perhaps it's because you want to run DOOM in 640x480
- >mode which (as I recall) the Mac version supported and the DOS version
- >didn't. Perhaps that's different now...
-
- There's Doom for Linux, and it supports SVGA. The Win95 version of
- Doom supports SVGA, but it's not out yet.
-
- Regardless, running MacDoom via emulation, even for one as
- accomplished as Executor would be painfully slow, especially in the
- high-res mode.
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