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In article <Pine.SV4.3.91.951003170546.20990C-100000@curly>, Alexei
Vyacheslavovich Novikov <ano...@emory.edu> wrote:

> On 3 Oct 1995, KAZ Vorpal wrote:
> 
> >       It would be incredibly foolish of them to -not- port it. Why be 
> > stuck on a platform with only a tiny percentage of the market share? 
> > Especially when the Mac share was dropping even before Windows 95 came 
> > out, and now that the sole, lame argument: "you can install it even if 
> > you're an idiot" no longer applies solely to the Mac, it'll shrink even 
> > faster.
> 
> 
>         I just downloaded Marathon demo and played it and also looked
> Marathon specs. Guess there won't be a big loss if Marathon won't be
> ported to Windows 95. They call Marathon engine superior to DOOM's? The
> ONLY improvement over DOOM is Dark Forces-like sector structure allowing
> to place one sector over another. And that's it! Other stuff is
> limitations. No more than 8 points per polygon! Is that a joke? You're
> DOOMed to lurk in narrow corridors. So the game looks.  You can't crouch.
> No horisontal sector movement. Serious limit on level size/enemies number. 
> 
>         I have nothing against Marathon, but excuse me, I can't get down
> to this primitivism after Dark Forces. But I guess many people aren't so 
> sensitive about this.
> 
> Alex.

Didn't look too closely, then. You can combine polygons to make very large
Arena areas, and set up polygons so that two  polys occupy the same place
at the same time (effect referred to as "5-D Space"). it's very cool, and
very confusing on the Motion Sensor...

No crouching, but the only game I've seen so far with that is Dark Forces-
marathon 2 (to be released in 2 weeks [snicker]) will have jumping. Dunno
what you mean about horizontal sector movement... Only limits on level
size is that you have to use 256 or fewer polygons- a limitation that will
be elminated in mara2. No real limits on # of enemies, tho. 

The real strengths of marathon are the net play, up to 8-way network
carnage, and the higher resolution.