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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!ecr.mu.oz.au!mlk
From: mlk@ecr.mu.oz.au (Michael_Leonard KOVACEK)
Subject: Re: why not quadra?
Message-ID: <9424822.24451@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Organization: D.E.C.R. University of Melbourne, Australia
References: <CvHLv3.21L@agora.rdrop.com> <3489cj$38p@search01.news.aol.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 12:25:43 GMT
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In article <3489cj$38p@search01.news.aol.com>, montressor@aol.com (Montressor) writes:
> In article <CvHLv3.21L@agora.rdrop.com>, edh@agora.rdrop.com (Ed Hurtley)
> writes:
>
> >> First off, the Macintosh (with 680X0 processor series) is (yes, even
> the
> >> Quadras) too slow for full-screen, 3D games (as doom is)... While it
> may
> >> support 16.8 Million colors (The "millions" is annoying) and 16-bit
> sound,
> >> making Doom support it would make it even slower than it already would
> be...
> >> If you refuse to use DOS, use Linux, or get an SGI...
>
> You might want to check out a new game for the Mac that should be arriving
> sometime in September. It's called "Marathon", and it's from Bungie
> Software. After you see it, I'd be interested in hearing your opinions on
> the ability of Macs to run full-screen 3D games.
>
> Mont
Not to be rude, but it sounds like perhaps you havn't seen a full screen
3D game on a mac either.... Otherwise, why can't a mac run a game like DOOM
just as well as a pc... A quadra has everything a 486 does... If you wrote
software for the custom mac setup from the ground up, rather than just porting
something writen for a PC it should be fine...
I am not a mac or PC person, but if you want to talk about the ability
to play games, there is no reason whatsoever that makes a PC superior to a mac
really... As long as you have enough memory on each machine and something
towards top of the range, they are both very comparible...
Michael