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From: jbennett@umich.edu (Jeremy Ford Bennett)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: DooM on a Power PC
Date: 3 Sep 1994 04:16:09 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
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Message-ID: <348ta9$p5o@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
References: <1994Sep2.182134.27087@ac.dal.ca>
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In article <1994Sep2.182134.27087@ac.dal.ca>,
BUTTAFUOCCO <mtan@ac.dal.ca> wrote:
>Now I know that DooM can't currently run on a Mac. I'm just wondering how well
>it would run on a Mac with a Power PC chip (ie., a Powerbook 540c with the chip).
>I konw that they come with 12 megs of RAM in them so if it were allocated to
>the PC portion of it (in theory) it should run rather well. Should that work,
>I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not I could connect my Mac and IBM
>for Net DooM via a serial cable?
>
>Reply to MTAN@AC.DAL.CA or post a respone please.
>
I'm not sure what you mean here. If your question is: Is the PowerPC chip
capable of running a game like Doom? The answer is sure, to bad nobody has
done it yet.
If your question is can you run Doom on a PowerMac running SoftWindows, the
answer is no. SoftWindows only emulates a 286 (at 486sx speeds as Insignia
is so fond of saying but it is still the equivalent of a 286) I believe
that Doom requires a 386 or higher.
Minor point, I don't have my Mac spec sheets handy but if I remember the
Powerbook 540c is not a PowerMac it is a 68040.
When (if) Insignia releases the 486 compatible version of SoftWindows
I'll let you know if Doom will run on it. As an educated guess, though, I'd
say that it would not.
--
Jeremy
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