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Started by lki... Lawell Kiing
Tue, 25 Oct 1994 03:48
Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
Author: lki... Lawell Kiing
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 03:48
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 03:48
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>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$j...@ren.cs.ucsb.edu> >Date: 24 Oct 1994 18:48:09 -0700 > >In <Cy6wC...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> ceba...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Casey Barton) writes: > >> People have been saying this about Origin since they released Wing >>Commander. > >> "What?! You *need* a 386 for it to be playable? That's ridiculous! >>They're abandoning a substantial part of the market. They don't understand >>economics - they're going to go bankrupt for sure!" > >> Then a funny thing happened. People went and bought 386 computers. > >They could put the game on milk boxes for all I care, as long as it plays >well. Unfortunately Origin has been so caught up in the Nintendo-esque >uninteractive gaming that their recent games, well, suck... > >Doom isn't popular cuz it comes on CD, I don't STILL have Monkey Island >and Tie Fighter on my drives cuz they require Pentium-90's. They are >fun. Origin needs some honest people to continously test their new >games instead of brown-nosing insiders. Ultima 8 was a fiasco, and >Wing Commander Armada isn't all that great (plays sad as a standalone, >only 2 player network?!?). > >-- >parik rao pr...@cs.ucsb.edu, r...@rns.com DOOM doesn't come on just CD. Both DOOM and DOOM II are available on both 3.5 disks and CD-ROM. I thought DOOM was very popular. Regards, Lawell Kiing (Toronto email: lki...@vnet.ibm.com)
Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
Author: va... Vadim Strizhevsky
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 06:04
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 06:04
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In article <19941024....@almaden.ibm.com>, Lawell Kiing <lki...@VNET.IBM.COM> wrote: >>Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever! >>From: pr...@ren.cs.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao) >>Reply-To: pr...@cs.ucsb.edu >>Organization: U.C. Santa Barbara >>Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim >>Message-ID: <38ho4p$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/
Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
Author: fw... .
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 13:37
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 13:37
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Vadim Strizhevsky (va...@news.cs.columbia.edu) wrote: : 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. No, he was just talking about general system requirements vs game quality. I played Monkey Island 1 on my 286 with monochrome, and it's STILL the best adventure game I've ever played, period. Frank Wang fw...@sbcs.sunysb.edu
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