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Re: Doom or Quake? Give me Doom! (longish)

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From: t... Tim Smith
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 08:28
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Piercarlo Grandi <p...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
>A somewhat realistic 3D presentation can be used for much more than
>games; for example as a substitute for Mosaic, as a WWW client. I am not
>joking -- I often delight in walking around WADs without monsters or
>after having killed them all, walking back, just to explore them. How
>much better if objects/actions in the WAD could be linkable to entities
>outside the WAD.

I briefly thought of seeing if I could make a WAD based on my apartment.
I was considering moving some furniture around, and wanted a preview.
Besides, I've always wondered what I'd do if I found a Baron of Hell
in my bathroom...

--Tim Smith
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Subject: Re: Doom or Quake?  Give me Doom! (longish)
Date: 8 Jan 1995 08:28:08 GMT
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