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From: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu (David Simmons)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: X-DOOM and SGI
Date: 2 Aug 1994 18:45:03 GMT
Organization: MSU Electrical Engineering
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Message-ID: <31m47f$ruj@Tut.MsState.Edu>
References: <19940802.195929.527981.NETNEWS@VM.BIU.AC.IL>
Reply-To: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: atreides.ee.msstate.edu
In article <19940802.195929.527981.NETNEWS@VM.BIU.AC.IL>,
Vels <vels@spider.cs.biu.ac.il> wrote:
>2) It seems like it wasn't written ESPECIALLY for SGI because it runs
>on regular X-Terminals which is VERY strange for an SGI program.
>I think it uses standart Xlib to redraw screens. So why not compile it
>on Sparc ? I think that would be GREAT !
Hmmm... why doesn't ID compile it on a Sun? Hmmm.... Why don't they
compile it on a Linux machine while they're at it? Why hasn't ID
thought of this before? ;)
The fact is they are working on that. David Taylor is probably working
on the hardware-dependant features of the other platforms, such as
sound.
David
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