home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- On Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:46:15 -0600, osiris@cs.utexas.edu wrote:
-
-
- >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.
-
-
-