🚀 go-pugleaf

Peter Collins (coll...@kai.ee.cit.ac.nz) wrote:
> Somebody wrote:
> > Troy Benedict (tben...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:

> > :There will be NO beta version of Quake.  id is going to do all of
> > :the play-testing by themselves.  No outside help is wanted.

> >Then that kind of sucks since beta testing with only 8 or 9 guys is not going
> >to get rid of the bugs.

> Sure it can... If you do it properly on many platforms with lotsa 
> different tsrs loaded etc.

Haha, you are a funny man. count all the different sound cards (there are at
least 4 kinds of Sound Blaster Pros alone), the hundreds of different video 
cards, the thousands of different combinations of tsr's and memory 
configurations, and god knows how many other strange-ass variables. Windows
95 did the biggest beta test in history, it's still buggy from a lot of 
accounts. Heretic is buggy on my and other machines, as is about 10-20% of 
the software I buy from big name companies, who I assume beta-test a lot more
thouroghly than ID is planning to test theirs. Bad idea, bad idea, bad idea.

You know what they say; all IBM clones are compatible, some are just more
compatible than others.

Scott
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