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Re: Marathon for Win95

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From: has... Russell Haskins
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 00:00
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In <fieldDF...@netcom.com> fi...@netcom.com writes: 
>
>Mark Jurisevic <bi...@flinders.edu.au> writes:
>
>>I heard a rumour that Marathon was being ported for Windows 95. Can
>>anyone confirm this? I've read many articles on this game and it
>>gets very favourable reviews. It seems as playable as Doom and 
>>Darkforces and would probably be better than a lot of the 
>>other 3D games coming out at the moment. 
>
>Marathon is better than Doom and Dark Forces, hands down, except in
one 
>field: it's modem capabilities. It's SLOW over modem, but excellent
over 
>network. On a network game, you can have eight players, and you 
>communicate by talking into a microphone instead of typing.
>
>As for whether or not it'll be ported to Windows95, or any other PC 
>system, it's unlikely. Bungie, the makers of Marathon have said
they'll 
>never port it, but then... they posted an ad for a programmer with 
>Windows, assembly and some other programming skills, so you never
know..
>


    Ya and it was said Dark Forces would never run on a Mac. There's
always a possibility!
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From: has...@ix.netcom.com (Russell Haskins )
Subject: Re: Marathon for Win95
Date: 1995/09/30
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