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Article #6671Re: Marathon for Win95
From: k... KAZ Vorpal
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 00:00
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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.
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From: k...@upx.net (KAZ Vorpal) Subject: Re: Marathon for Win95 Date: 1995/10/03 Message-ID: <44q7rm$68d@zippy.cais.net> X-Deja-AN: 116899300 references: <43r2gj$1584@otho.cc.flinders.edu.au> <aaron_sommer-2109951018100001@lum.herringn.com> <43sr0u$422@steel.interlog.com> <aaron_sommer-2109952308140001@lum.herringn.com> followup-to: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,alt.games,alt.games.marathon,alt.games.doom organization: UltraPlex 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