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Article #9Re: Is there a VGA version of doom?
From: ji... Chainsaw Jim
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 18:54
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 18:54
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hui...@cs.sfu.ca (Huishan Zhou) writes: > > Title says all, I wonder if there is or will be a VGA version of >doom. I don't know much about programming, but I figure it wouldn't be >that hard to do this, am I right? Afraid not. According to Id, there isn't enough of an installed base of VGA equipted computers to make a VGA version profitable. Until there are, Doom will be strictly an ANSI text based game. However, I did hear a rumer that someone is trying to hack Doom to work in CGA mode. We can only hope! -- ============================================================================== ji...@point.cs.uwm.edu DOOM: Forget Disney World ... I'm goin' to Hell!
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!fauern!news.th-darmstadt.de!terra.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de!zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de!news.dfn.de!scsing.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!point.cs.uwm.edu!jimu From: ji...@point.cs.uwm.edu (Chainsaw Jim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Is there a VGA version of doom? Date: 27 Apr 1994 18:54:04 GMT Organization: Ash Termination Chambers, Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <2pmcccINNmpk@uwm.edu> References: <1994Apr27.032715.6984@cs.sfu.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit