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Article #31Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: va... Vadim Strizhevsky
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 06:04
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 06:04
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In article <19941024....@almaden.ibm.com>, Lawell Kiing <lki...@VNET.IBM.COM> wrote: >>Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever! >>From: pr...@ren.cs.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao) >>Reply-To: pr...@cs.ucsb.edu >>Organization: U.C. Santa Barbara >>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 >>Message-ID: <38ho4p$j...@ren.cs.ucsb.edu> >>Date: 24 Oct 1994 18:48:09 -0700 >> >>In <Cy6wC...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> ceba...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Casey Barton) writes: >> >>> People have been saying this about Origin since they released Wing >>>Commander. >> >>> "What?! You *need* a 386 for it to be playable? That's ridiculous! >>>They're abandoning a substantial part of the market. They don't understand >>>economics - they're going to go bankrupt for sure!" >> >>> Then a funny thing happened. People went and bought 386 computers. >> >>They could put the game on milk boxes for all I care, as long as it plays >>well. Unfortunately Origin has been so caught up in the Nintendo-esque >>uninteractive gaming that their recent games, well, suck... >> >>Doom isn't popular cuz it comes on CD, I don't STILL have Monkey Island >>and Tie Fighter on my drives cuz they require Pentium-90's. They are >>fun. Origin needs some honest people to continously test their new >>games instead of brown-nosing insiders. Ultima 8 was a fiasco, and >>Wing Commander Armada isn't all that great (plays sad as a standalone, >>only 2 player network?!?). >> >>-- >>parik rao pr...@cs.ucsb.edu, r...@rns.com > >DOOM doesn't come on just CD. Both DOOM and DOOM II are available >on both 3.5 disks and CD-ROM. I thought DOOM was very popular. > Quite true but it has nothing to do with Origin. Doom is made by id. Also Monkey Islan and Tie Fighter are Lucas Arts games. And I don't know about Tie Fighter, but Monkey island 1 and 2 I very happily played on my old 386sx. I think original poster confused these games with something else. Regards, Vadim.. >Regards, > >Lawell Kiing (Toronto email: lki...@vnet.ibm.com) -- ------------------------------------------- Vadim Strizhevsky -- va...@cs.columbia.edu http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vadim/
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!udel!news.mathworks.com!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.cs.columbia.edu!news.cs.columbia.edu!news-not-for-mail From: va...@news.cs.columbia.edu (Vadim Strizhevsky) 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: 25 Oct 1994 02:04:49 -0400 Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science Lines: 59 Message-ID: <38i761$p67@play.cs.columbia.edu> References: <19941024.205327.854@almaden.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: play.cs.columbia.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit