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Article #262Re: Any plans of porting DOOM to Mac?
From: umwi... Kerry Gordon Peter Willi...
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 22:08
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 22:08
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In <jong.3....@wonderware.com> jo...@wonderware.com (Jonathan Gwynne) writes: >In article <HAGSTROM.9...@al-burro.mit.edu> hags...@athena.mit.edu (Paul A Hagstrom) writes: >>Subject: Re: Any plans of porting DOOM to Mac? >>From: hags...@athena.mit.edu (Paul A Hagstrom) >>Date: 6 Jan 1994 16:11:57 GMT >>wo...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Der Walvater) writes: >>> *Mac flame deleted* >> * PC flame deleted * >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 ** ^^^^^^^^^^^ Mac flame ** >of demand... I'd like to see an OS/2 version of Doom but I'm not holding my >breath. What with the PC and Mac flame and counter flame? Perhaps we should set up a newsgroup "alt.Hack.Mac.Bash.IBM" so us mac guys can unleash a full salvo of facts, figures, here-say, etc against the rest of the world while you poor PC guys reformat your hard drives, restart after a crash, realize that the $80 program you bought doesn't run without a $160 soundcard, quit from Windoze to run your HD compactor, etc. etc. (This should cause an uproar!!) Kerry. I wish IBM! --I wish I Bought a Mac! ^ ^ ^
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