Re: Non-DOS ports of Descent???

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From: mde... Martijn Dekker
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:15

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alle...@prairienet.org (Mark W. Allender) wrote: 

:Ethan Shayne (esh...@ibm.net) wrote:
:: If you want a Linux port of Descent, please write to
:: sup...@interplay.com or use their website (http://www.interplay.com)
:: to post a suggestion. I'm thinking the more requests they get, the
:: more likely they'll do it. And I'd really like to see it happen too.
:
:I don't think that this do will much good.  It has been stated by Parallax
:that a linux port is highly unlikely at this point.  The reason -- $$$.
:It really boils down to simple ecomonics in terms of expenditures versus
:returns.

Why not allow 3rd parties to port the shareware version? Thats how Id did
it: they let people from Sun make sundoom, people from SGI do sgidoom...
I would LOVE to see sundescent! (I like sundoom).


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