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wo...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Der Walvater) writes:

>Perhaps when MACs get a larger installed base, and a real joystick port 
>instead of a makshift ADB port solution, REAL and AFFORDABLE wavetable 
>synthesis, and 16 bit sound on an affordable machine, then ID would 
>probably support it.

I really doubt sound is a big issue; after all, you can play DOOM on a PC
without a soundcard.  (And with a PC, there are so many soundcards you have
to try to support!)  And even if the Mac does lack what you would call "Real
and Affordable wavetable synthesis," (which I don't believe), its out-of-the-
factory sound configuration is _certainly_ adequate to reproduce the awful
out-of-the-factory sound of DOOM on a PC.

On top of that, there is a perfectly good play mode on PC DOOM for either
keyboard only or mouse+keyboard.  Why is the joystick an issue?  It sounds
to me like you were more interested in flaming the Mac generally than being
helpful.

I'd be interested in seeing a DOOM port to the Mac as well.. what is the
official standpoint on this?  (There's something vaguely DOOM-like, or
Wolf3D-like called "Pathways into Darkness", but from what I gather it looks
pretty primitive when compared to DOOM)

 -Paul Hagstrom
  hags...@mit.edu

(PS- sorry about the funny followup.. I didn't have the original message to
 respond to for some reason.  If you didn't notice, wonderful).