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From: strife@u.washington.edu (Strife)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Algorithm for DOOM graphics !!!
Date: 2 Aug 1994 08:47:40 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
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Message-ID: <31l17c$p6b@news.u.washington.edu>
References: <1994May26.163916.6970@bbx.basis.com> <31ktra$ad9@search01.news.aol.com>
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I hope no one tells him risc is mainly just optimized cisc :)
Too bad he knows jack about programming it seems, or has never seen any
other games besides DOOM. These crappy PC's as you want us to believe
have many great games for them. Just goes to show, the hardware don't
mean jack if ya ain't got anything good to use on it.
Frank
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terryd1051@aol.com (TerryD1051) writes:
>In article <1994May26.163916.6970@bbx.basis.com>, scott@bbx.basis.com
>(Scott Amspoker) writes:
>I will tell you why they dont use polygon graphics (you probably know, but
>i will tell you anyway) because of these weak cisc PC's we are on, when
>this cisc stuff is finally over i.e. intel goes out of business or intel
>finally gets a new architecture (forget a cisc based p6 or p7) and goes
>risc for cost, power, and performance reasons. OR of course we get some of
>those PowerPC's running doom on a GUI like windows 4 or a PC formate for
>those who do not want a mac(where is a mac version of Doom?). ANy way- of
>course risc can pull of tons of pologons which will be far better than
>parrallaxed scrolling and will enable virtual reality upgradability,better
>res.,and none of that 2d sprite stuff. I am anxios to see how id pulls of
>Quake, how much they can squez out of cisc processing will be
>interresting, its been fun wasting your time (whoever read this) and i
>will write again the next time i spend the night at wills house. and it
>will be 5 times longer hahahahahaha you sour beverages!!! i will soon
>dominate the world, i will make way better games than doom, UP ALL YOUR
>BOTTOMAL AREAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!