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From: jr7877@eehpx12 (Jason V Robertson)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: DooM on a Power PC
Date: 3 Sep 1994 17:56:00 GMT
Organization: UIUC Engineering Workstation Labs
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Message-ID: <34adbg$qbn@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <1994Sep2.182134.27087@ac.dal.ca> <348ta9$p5o@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
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In article <348ta9$p5o@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> jbennett@umich.edu (Jeremy Ford Bennett) writes:
>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.
>
Yeah. My guess would be that Doom will never run under _any_ type of
emulation. It relies to heavily on direct hardware support. So you will
have to wait until it is ported.
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