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Article #176Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: jlo... Jeff M Lodoen
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 20:44
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 20:44
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Jonathan Badger (bad...@phylo.life.uiuc.edu) wrote: : What I'm wondering is if this means Origin will stop making programs that : really aren't suitable for CD's like strategy games (anyone remember Origin's : version of the Steve Jackson wargame OGRE?). Yes, you certainly COULD put : a strategy game on a CD, but I don't think video clips and so forth would : really improve the experience. I think they stopped that a long time ago.. Autoduel, Ogre, Omega (the one with programmable tanks).. but these are oooold titles. Any others? jlo...@shell.portal.com
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!fauern!zib-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!terra.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de!zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!svc.portal.com!shell.portal.com!jlodoen From: jlo...@shell.portal.com (Jeff M Lodoen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever! Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim Date: 24 Oct 1994 20:44:49 GMT Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data) Lines: 12 Message-ID: <38h6c1$fno@news1.shell> References: <38ep3g$5gj@adam.cc.sunysb.edu> <avatarxCy605K.8n4@netcom.com> <Cy6G6p.34x@scu.edu.au> <38gq7o$589@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <badger.783022421@phylo> NNTP-Posting-Host: jobe.shell.portal.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit