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Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!eehpx12!jr7877
From: jr7877@eehpx12 (Jason V Robertson)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: ID is losing control...
Date: 31 Aug 1994 21:19:39 GMT
Organization: UIUC Engineering Workstation Labs
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Message-ID: <342s5b$28o@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <CvDtB0.Auq@lehman.com> <341hj1$179@search01.news.aol.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: eehpx12.cen.uiuc.edu
In article <341hj1$179@search01.news.aol.com> grantusa@aol.com (GrantUSA) writes:
>In article <CvDtB0.Auq@lehman.com>, justinb@ministry (Justin Beech)
>writes:
>
>>What about this thought: ID is losing control of its destiny. Doom has
>become
>>_over_ sucessful, soon, the wad file format will become a "standard". A
>>standard that, like the IBM PC, started out being proprietary, then
>evolved
>>to become, basically, public.
>>
>>The wad file format is understood now: All that remains is for someone to
>>write a engine (public domain or not) that works with the growing library
>of
>>PWads out there. The Doom engine is good, ahead of its time, but with all
>>the attention on it now, and a huge reward for whomever makes and sells
>>the first "Doom-wad compatible engine", it is living on borrowed time.
>>[etc]
>
>You have a point, and you may be right. With 1000 pwads, there is an
>incentive for another engine that can use them. However, the pwad
>file format is not really anything special, and the amount of
>development and expertise needed to create a better 3d engine
>is far greater than the trivially simple format of the data. That is,
>if they can make the engine, they can easily make their own
>data format.
>
This would actually be _good_! Can you imagine how much more pitiful the
AT architecture would be if IBM controlled it as absolute master?!
Just imagine a Doom-like engine with drop-in video drivers so that you could
use the accelerated features of almost _all_ video cards as well as some
standard mode (so as to let it still work on normal vga). I bet on a fast
486-66 with a VLB/PCI medium/high end mach32/mach64/S3/P9000 etc.. they could
almost up the resolution to 640x480 and keep a reasonable frame rate.
--
Ph or finger jroberts@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu for PGP public key.
(Like I actually need one).