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Article #93865Re: HACX shareware has been released!
From: fel... Felix Harris
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:00
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Unable to sleep on the sofa, nice sofa too but..., spam <sp...@bu.edu>
decided to say this:
>Milez wrote:
>> quake2 is gonna be a new engine...and i suspect that a person may need
>no, quake 2 will use the quake engine, it will just be a much more
>feature-rich version of the engine :) but the rendering engine is
>basically the same (as i said, with numerous advancements
Hexen2, Quake2, Duke Nukem 4ever all use the Quake2 engine, NOT quake
engine.
>also hexen2's cpu requirements were mostly because of level design i
>believe (not 100% sure so dont quote me on that)
>
>> p200 for an acceptable game...it has much more colour and grfx
>> improvements and that means slower fps
And it runs fine on a P133 for me.
>yea, but the engine is also being optimized, for example, quake2 wont
>do calculations for entities that arent in your potential visible area
>
>> so to all out there who love quake...get ready for a another slamming
>> when quake2 comes out..
>
>im really anticipating quake 2, but im not gonna get my hopes too
>high... but i do need that new pc :) the p60 finally went this summer,
>that can be a good thing tho, a good excuse to get a new p233mmx :)
>
>-da spaminator
>
>---
>my granny what a big gun you have :O
>the better to frag you with my dear :>
--
Felix Harris aka Iceman Iceblue
fel...@netcomuk.co.uk
Life is just a beta version of death,but
Death is an alpha version of Shit Creek!
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From: fel...@netcomuk.co.uk (Felix Harris) Subject: Re: HACX shareware has been released! Date: 1997/10/12 Message-ID: <34406af8.338882@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 279649469 References: <61759d$htu$1@ultra.sonic.net> <343AEB23.F6957256@interaccess.com> <61j6d5$r0p@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> <343dc731.174662@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk> <61koo2$kgu$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <34478cf5.19538796@news.erols.com> <01bcd5fa$bdb30e60$42a04bd1@hp-pavilion> <34410E06.143B@nospam.v-wave.com> <343FDBE4.44BC@bu.edu> X-Complaints-To: ab...@corp.netcom.net.uk X-Trace: taliesin.netcom.net.uk 876637003 8075 (None) 194.42.228.228 Organization: None. (via NETCOM Internet Ltd. USENET service). Newsgroups: alt.binaries.doom,alt.binaries.games.quake,alt.games.apogee,alt.games.descent,alt.games.doom,alt.games.doom.ii,alt.games.duke3d,rec.games.computer.quake.misc,alt.games.upcoming-3d,rec.games.computer.doom.misc,rec.games.computer.doom.playing,rec.games.comp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit