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From: vx@teleport.com (V-X)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Time for DOOM to be Freeware?
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 20:15:50 +1000
Organization: Fragile Liquid
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References: <9407280929.AA13970@sun> <CtoCrF.3Ju@cup.hp.com> <31c7jt$bph@nwfocus.wa.com> <vx.633.0076E319@teleport.com> <djwalton.775858732@chorizo>
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In article <djwalton.775858732@chorizo> djwalton@chorizo.engr.ucdavis.edu (David J Walton) writes:
>vx@teleport.com (V-X) writes:
>>In article <31c7jt$bph@nwfocus.wa.com> brianf@halcyon.halcyon.com (brianf) writes:
>>>C) Jeezus it is not like they are on a 386 with a copy
>>>of GW-BASIC that came with DOS 4.1
>>I was there. I saw it. They used QBASIC, and they had to buy one of those
>>QUE "By Example" books to help them along. They sent me to Computer City to
>>buy it. I'm not kidding. Really. I got a free mousepad while I was there.
>>Ask anybody.
>Sorry, but you must be mistaken. Doom is a compiled program. It must
>have been QuickBASIC.
Yours is? Man, I got gypped--I always have to run mine in QBasic.
_______________________________________________________________________________
V-X lives in Portland, OR which is full of sunny happy places, the sunniest of
which is Teleport, the organization that provides him with Internet access. V-X
has nothing to do with Teleport, outside of a check he sends four times a year.
You'll probably blame them anyway, though. Don't do it, man, just don't do it.