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In <Pine.CVX.3.91.95042...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>, John Michael Martz <jma...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu> writes:
>On 19 Apr 1995, JORDAN SPENSER AARON wrote:


First of all, let me say that I am writing this message from teh
game developer's conference in San Jose (I'm writing from my hotel
on a laptop).  

Microsoft is indeed making major inroads here.  I saw Pitfall Harry
running on Win95 and it was BETTER than the Sega version.  I was
floored at how well it ran.  Microsoft did do a better job here in getting
the word out on what it did.  IBM did a great job too but Microsoft simply
threw a lot more money at it and it shows.  I liked the food at the
hospitality suite better too! :)  Though IBM has incredible desserts!

IBM is showing off DIVE here as well though both DIVE and WinG simply
make the respective OS allow DOS like hardware access.

But right now, OS/2 has the lead in the high end gaming area.

Number of multithreaded games for Windows (commercial): 0
Number coming soon (next 6 months): 0

Number of multithreaded commercial games for OS/2: 3
Galactic Civilizations
MicroLearn game pack
Simcity classic

Number coming in the next 6 months: 3
Entrepreneur
Avarice
MicroLearn gamepack 2

Sure, there are games being ported to each platform (such as DOOM which
now runs at least as well as the DOS version on OS/2 and Win95) but they
are (sorry to say) single threaded games.  Besides porting an existing game
is not exactly a big deal.  They are just part of the continuing marketing
wars between IBM and Microsoft.

By the time Windows95 ships, OS/2 will already have out on the market
at least 3 original high end games written exclusively for an advanced
OS: GalCiv, Entrepreneur, and Avarice which fill in 3 of the major
niches (Strategy, Simulation, and Adventure).

Like it or not, OS/2 is presently the premiere high end gaming platform. And
I say this right from the convention where all the developers come:
Game Developer's Conference.


Brad

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Brad Wardell
Project Manager
Stardock Systems Inc.