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Article #4MANNERS Re: Is there a VGA version of doom?
From: lah...
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 05:53
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 05:53
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IJ>In article <rrwardCo...@netcom.com> rrw...@netcom.com (Richard Ward) IJ>writes: IJ>>> Title says all, I wonder if there is or will be a VGA version of IJ>>>doom. I don't know much about programming, but I figure it wouldn't be IJ>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ IJ>>>that hard to do this, am I right? IJ>>No kidding, you don't know much about programming. DOOM _IS_ in VGA! It IJ>>runns in 320x200x256 color mode, which is VGA. IJ>Maybe the writer meant higher resolution VGA. He would probably appreciate IJ>honest answer rather than a flame. Would you answer this question the same IJ>way if you met him face to face and he asked it? I don't understand what IJ>makes people think that communicating over the net requires a different answ IJ>than face to face, unless people are generally this snide. IJ>[I'm sure I'll get flamed for this one. I'm just sick of seeing these kinds IJ>of responses. It probably won't do any good, anyway.] IJ>___ IJ>JCS Honestly, guys. You were pretty tough on the poor guy. I would say though, that if he meant svga (640x480x256), it would likely be too much for most of our machines to handle (well, at least my 486sx25 w/4 mb's). Mad Dog Hoek +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | THE CASTLE bbs - Los Angeles, CA, USA - 50 Lines! +1 213.953.0040 | | 30 CD ROMs - 40+ Multi-Player Games Internet: in...@castlebbs.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 00:53:40 EST Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!psuvax1!news.ecn.bgu.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!news.claremont.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!castlebbs.com!lahoek From: lah...@castlebbs.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Organization: THE CASTLE bbs - Los Angeles - 213.953.0040 Message-ID: <027948XGMHDEVMDCTBEA@castlebbs.com> Subject: MANNERS Re: Is there a VGA version of doom? Lines: 39 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit