Re: Will Quake-2 work on NT?

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From: PhiberOptik
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 00:00

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John Carmack's official word is there will be no port of Quake to utilize
the DirectX's Direct3D support due to highly cluttered code and a poor 3D
interface. id is going with 3Dfx for their 3D support for sure. More to
come as I hear more.......

Jon Platt <sad...@cisdk67.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<33b6245a...@news.demon.co.uk>...
> reu...@texas.net (Reuben King) wrote:
> 
> >I do hope so...
> >
> >NT rocks and the only reason I have 95 still on my machine is to play 
> >Quake..
> Yes it will, but if they do a direct 3d version you won't be able top
> run that
> 
> 
> --
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> 
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Subject: Re: Will Quake-2 work on NT?
Date: 1997/07/09
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