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Article #288Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: joe... Ajaipal Tanwar
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 20:26
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 20:26
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In article <39pe45$d...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>, GM Enierga <gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote: >j-h...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (James Hogan) writes: >>Nearly everyone who's run Armada or the WC3 demo on a 486 has had no >>complaints about the speed. Origin's target audience is not just people >>with Pentiums. >...but perhaps a year from now: >do you think Origin's games will support the 486, when a year ago its games >still ran "satisfactorily" on a 386? Why should they support the 486 a year from now? By then, the P5 and it's like should drop below $2000 and be readily available. Why not take advantage of all that processing power, especially when your goal is to create worlds? If you can't run their games with your setup, don't buy them. They will still make plenty money, and when you do get an adequate system, you can get it too. -- Hungry Dragon | Ajaipal S. Tanwar, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht -==(UDIC)==- | University of Texas at Austin - joe...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu "Now pretty please with sugar on top, clean the f**kin car"
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!fauern!news.th-darmstadt.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!swiss.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!dumbo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: joe...@dumbo.cc.utexas.edu (Ajaipal Tanwar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever! Date: 9 Nov 1994 14:26:06 -0600 Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas Lines: 22 Message-ID: <39rb8u$leo@dumbo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <38ep3g$5gj@adam.cc.sunysb.edu> <Pine.A32.3.90.941026020500.699 <39i260$e4l@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <39pe45$dqk@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: dumbo.cc.utexas.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit