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Article #5577Re: Epic MegaGames and Windows 95
From: tms... HP Lovecraft
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 00:00
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> I'll say one thing, it's going to be one hell of a miserable future :-) Say what you want.. it is the future.. whether it's a good one or a bad one is yet to be decided. OS/2 has Galactic Civ - a great game. Win95 already has three native games, and many, many more coming.. I just played a demo of The Dig! and Rebel Assault 2 and noticed that Lucas Arts announced they will support the Win95 platform with 95 versions of these games. With developers lining up behind it, whether it sucks or not, people will buy it. If ID suddenly announced they were developing Quake only to Run on the Atari ST, you would see lots of people trying to find Atari ST units.. gaming support matters, quality of the environment will always be up for debate, and the user who has never used computers with no real preference buying from Dell, Micron, Gateway or Compaq will get Win95 - leading developers to work with it. Way back in the old days, when (I believe Swan or Northgate?) shipped GEM Desktop with their units, we saw development on that crappy environment - most notably Ventura Publisher. Crap or not, the sell and support of manufactures carries the development field... As I've said though: Perfect games will wait until someone comes up with OpenGL (NT) on either Win95 or OS/2... Chris. TMS...@Delphi.Com; TMS...@KSU.KSU.EDU "I hope that was a good nighty night." - Tori Amos
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