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Article #271Re: Any plans of porting DOOM to Mac?
From: r... Remek Andrew Lipinski
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 06:24
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 06:24
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I think the biggest problem with porting to a MAC is the sheer lack of grunt power for the majority of machines out there. Possibly some of the high end Quaddras would keep up with the crunch demands of the game, but it would be questionnable to justify a port to such a low install base of fast machines (which are very expensive). As it is on PCs I haven't seen doom run well on anything below a 486, and having used a Quadra 950, which in my opinion runs at about the same speed as a 486DX2-66, I can't imagine how doom could be implemented for some of the low end MACs (unless the game is tailored to that platform, with maybe some tradeoffs in complexity). Remek.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!olivea!sgigate.sgi.com!sgiblab!munnari.oz.au!mlb.dmt.csiro.au!mlb.dmt.csiro.au!not-for-mail From: r...@mlb.dmt.csiro.au (Remek Andrew Lipinski) Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Subject: Re: Any plans of porting DOOM to Mac? Date: 7 Jan 1994 17:24:49 +1100 Organization: CSIRO Division Of Manufacturing Technology, Australia Lines: 13 Sender: ro...@mlb.dmt.csiro.au Distribution: world Message-ID: <2giv7h$dc@midgard.mlb.dmt.csiro.au> References: <HAGSTROM.94Jan6111155@al-burro.mit.edu> Reply-To: r...@mlb.dmt.csiro.au NNTP-Posting-Host: midgard.mlb.dmt.csiro.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit