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- From: Soleil@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Brandon Hines)
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- Subject: Re: The big question: Marathon.
- Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 08:16:42 GMT
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- plonk@freenet2.scri.fsu.edu (Erich James Plondke) wrote:
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- >First, I would like to say that you are doing a great job, and your hard work
- >is showing.
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- >I own a mac, but I'm probably going to get a PC. The hardest part of the
- >transition, however , is the total lack of Marathon for the PC. Is there
- >any realistic possibility of games such as these being supported now or in
- >the near future? I know that it seems like a lofty goal, but that game would
- >make your project totally legitimate in most people's eyes.
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- I have been toying around with the Marathon Demo with the latest beta
- or Executor. I haven't been able to do much becuase I didn't know the
- keyboard command for movement, but it seemed to run without crashing.
- I only noticed two problems:
- Only works in low res mode. High res mode operates, but the
- graphis appear in strange colors.
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- I couldn't pass any dead bodies. I don't know if this is a
- probelm with Executor per say; I have never played it on a real
- Mac and have never read any docs, just install and play.
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- Brandon
- Soleil@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
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