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Article #6833Re: Marathon for Win95
From: has... Russell Haskins
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 00:00
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 Message-ID: <44itru$pjr@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 116801907 references: <43r2gj$1584@otho.cc.flinders.edu.au> <fieldDFA55y.Fwo@netcom.com> organization: Netcom x-netcom-date: Sat Sep 30 1:07:26 AM PDT 1995 newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,alt.games,alt.games.marathon,alt.games.doom MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit