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Article #98661Re: HACX shareware has been released!
From: fel... Felix Harris
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:00
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Unable to sleep on the sofa, nice sofa too but...,
jba...@lemur.Stanford.EDU (Joel Baxter) decided to say this:
>In article <34412193...@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk>,
>Felix Harris <fel...@netcomuk.co.uk> wrote:
>>Unable to sleep on the sofa, nice sofa too but..., Mungojerrie
>><ea...@wpi.edu> decided to say this:
>>
>>>On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Felix Harris wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hexen2, Quake2, Duke Nukem 4ever all use the Quake2 engine, NOT quake
>>>> engine.
>>>
>
> [ snip ]
>
>>>H2 Uses a Modified Quake Engine.
>>>
>>
>>H2 Uses a Modified Quake 2 Engine
>
>
>Dude... when you make some statement about a simple fact, and someone
>corrects you, you might want to check to see if maybe they are right before
>you just say the same thing again. Or at least back up your assertion. And
>it's just weird/rude to snip out the portion of their post where they
>disagree with you, when quoting them (I have restored it above).
>
>Anyway, the Raven Software web site says that Hexen2 uses the Quake engine.
>Perhaps they should know? Also, note that the Quake 2 engine is _not_ even
>finished at this moment, and Hexen2 has probably been in development for
>around half a year; using the Quake 2 engine for Hexen2 would have been an
>impressive trick. Finally, no way is id going to let any company release a
>game using the Quake 2 engine before id does.
About 15-20 different magazines say that it uses the Q2 engine. And
mostly the Q2 engine is finished, there working on levels and models.
--
Felix Harris aka Iceman Iceblue
fel...@netcomuk.co.uk
Life is just a beta version of death,but
Death is an alpha version of Shit Creek!
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From: fel...@netcomuk.co.uk (Felix Harris) Subject: Re: HACX shareware has been released! Date: 1997/10/13 Message-ID: <3441bc8e.609113@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 280114863 References: <61759d$htu$1@ultra.sonic.net> <34406af8.338882@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk> <Pine.OSF.3.95q.971012032231.12196B-100000@reno.WPI.EDU> <34412193.20950859@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk> <61rog1$shm$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> X-Complaints-To: ab...@corp.netcom.net.uk X-Trace: taliesin.netcom.net.uk 876723420 8437 (None) 194.42.228.27 Organization: None. (via NETCOM Internet Ltd. USENET service). Newsgroups: alt.binaries.doom,alt.binaries.games.quake,alt.games.apogee,alt.games.descent,alt.games.doom,alt.games.doom.ii,alt.games.duke3d,rec.games.computer.quake.misc,alt.games.upcoming-3d,rec.games.computer.doom.misc,rec.games.computer.doom.playing,rec.games.comp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit