Re: Descent vs. Quake

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From: tdi... Thomas Dietz
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 15:42

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In <vertigoD...@netcom.com> ver...@netcom.com (Don Durrance) 
writes: 

>One more thing about the 3DO and Jaguar... they're *slow*. I've seen 
>DOOM on the jaguar.. and, well, it's *slow*. Ick. Well, I just had to 
>say that. 

Well if it's code right it should be slow. Those game boxes have 
hardware dedicated to rendering and the like.  From what I have read 
here, Doom for the Jag was a port.  Ports usually dont live up to their 
predecessors.

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