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Re: Epic MegaGames and Windows 95

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From: tms... HP Lovecraft
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 00:00
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> I'll say one thing, it's going to be one hell of a miserable future :-)

Say what you want.. it is the future.. whether it's a good one or 
a bad one is yet to be decided.  OS/2 has Galactic Civ - a great
game.  Win95 already has three native games, and many, many
more coming.. I just played a demo of The Dig! and Rebel Assault 2
and noticed that Lucas Arts announced they will support the Win95
platform with 95 versions of these games.

With developers lining up behind it, whether it sucks or not, people
will buy it.  If ID suddenly announced they were developing Quake
only to Run on the Atari ST, you would see lots of people trying to
find Atari ST units..  gaming support matters, quality of the 
environment will always be up for debate, and the user who has never
used computers with no real preference buying from Dell, Micron, Gateway
or Compaq will get Win95 - leading developers to work with it.  

Way back in the old days, when (I believe Swan or Northgate?) shipped
GEM Desktop with their units, we saw development on that crappy 
environment - most notably Ventura Publisher.  Crap or not, the sell and
support of manufactures carries the development field...

As I've said though: Perfect games will wait until someone comes up
with OpenGL (NT) on either Win95 or OS/2... 

Chris.  TMS...@Delphi.Com; TMS...@KSU.KSU.EDU
"I hope that was a good nighty night." - Tori Amos
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Subject: Re: Epic MegaGames and Windows 95
Date: 1995/09/20
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