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Re: What's this for ?

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From: mwla... Mike W. Lasota
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:00
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I'm not a huge gamer. I got an AMD K6-2 400mhz chip, 64mb of mem
(upgrading 64 more soon I hope), Diamond Viper v330 AGP, Quantum
Fireball EX .. Runs Q2 w/o a problem. I'm not looking so religeously
at this Q3 craze... but is mine going to be "Stone age" for this, or
am I in the right track? Most my other friends got ripped off p166
Packard Bells, looks like I'll be playing alone in any case :) --Mike

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:59:15 +0100, "Hugo Buddelmeijer"
<hu...@comports.com> wrote:

>I think they can better wait a while till there are a lot off computers
>powerfull enough to run the game. If they release it quickly, only about 5%
>off the gamers can play it, so most off them won't and they will wait for
>the next game, probably not by ID, so they lose money.
>
>Actually I wish they wait, because on my P100 without voodoo, quake2 is only
>playable in 320x200, so quake3 at 1x1 or something. I even had difficulties
>running the Q3 movie....
>
>BlackShift
>
>Sabine Leske wrote in message <7886p3$6os$1...@goof.de.uu.net>...
>>What is this newsgroup good for ? Quake 3 doesn't exist !! (in the
>>momemt...)
>>
>>ID Soft: hurry up !!
>>
>>
>
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Subject: Re: What's this for ?
Date: 1999/01/30
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