Re: Any plans of porting DOOM to Mac?

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From: hags... Paul A Hagstrom
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 05:58

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In article <jong.3....@wonderware.com> jo...@wonderware.com (Jonathan Gwynne) writes:

>Seems to me like there was a little PC flaming in there for you to gripe too 
>loud abut Mac flaming...  Anyway, I suspect that the reason that Doom won't be 
>ported to the Mac is the same reason it wasn't written for Windows...  Also, 
>for all of Apple's marketing brilliance, the Mac is still a tiny fraction of 
>the PC market (around 15% last I heard) and so it seems to also be a question 
>of demand...  I'd like to see an OS/2 version of Doom but I'm not holding my 
>breath.

Yeah, reaction I guess.. sorry about that.  As for the OS/2 version, the DOS
version of DOOM can be run under OS/2 (I've done so myself).  Check the
README.EXE file for instructions and parameters for setting it up on the OS/2
desktop..

 -Paul Hagstrom
  hags...@mit.edu

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