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k...@upx.net (KAZ Vorpal) writes:

>Aaron Sommer (aaron_...@herringn.com) wrote:

>>)> Why- that Marathon is as good as Doom or Darkforces, or that it's
>>)> being ported?  Apparently, Bungie is asking for developers for Windows
>>)> 95 in the latest MacUser, and were quoted at a recent show that they
>>)> were porting Marathon to Win95.  All of these are rumours however, but
>>)> they were posted on the Mac gaming action forum, and the ad in Macuser
>>)> was confirmed by several posters.

>>)Okay, sure. but why would Bungie advertise for W95 developers on a Mac
>>)mag? Smells like another fishy rumor to me...

>	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.

Sure, there's more people, but there's also more game companies to 
compete with. Plus, even more importantly, Bungie will have to give a TON 
of tech support. They barely have to give any with the Mac.

Jesse Shrieve
J...@Field.Com