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- From: Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Commercial
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 09:45:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <19167@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > Pete Skelly writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <1993Jan03.031104.25917@microsoft.com>
- > Posted: 03 Jan 93 03:11:04 GMT
- >
- > Org. : Microsoft Corp.
- >
- > In article <19135@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca wrote:
- >
- > <comments about IBM add deleted>
- > >
- > >
- > > I agree. All they need to do (in my highly demented opinion, admittedly)
- > is
- > > show someone playing Wing Commander (obviously they would have to pay a
- > fee
- > > to Origin, so this would never happen) and then someone walks in and
- > wants
- > > something, so the player just hits ALT-HOME... then we see a cool OS/2
- > screen
- > > with pulse, chess playing and Wing is still going in the little window
- > (the
- > > 32-bit GRE would help here, and a SVGA driver...)
- >
- > If IBM did this kind of add, they would not be competing with Apple or MS,
- > but with Nintendo and Sega. I don't think they'd have a chance, as both
- > of these companies are Japanese, and would probably have less trouble
- > with the FTC.
-
-
- Hardly a fair competition considering the low quality of SNES and Sega games
- (low # of colours, unoriginality, etc)
-
- >
- > Then again, maybe IBM should sell game systems...
- > > Just seeing Wing being played full-screen to a national audience would
- > > probably make Nintendo sales plummet!
- >
- > Nintendo will probably have it on SNES is a few weeks anyway....And it will
- > probably be a lot more responsive as it will be running on dedicated game
- > hardware anyway.
-
-
- I've seen the ad for the SNES version and it looks pretty awful. And a
- crippled 16-bit 3Mhz CPU, even with sprite coprocessors, well, you'd have to
- be crazy to think it will play better than on a 386/33.
-
- And they'll never manage to port Wing II over...
-
- In any case, don't you think that OS/2's ability to multitask these kinds of
- games would convince people that it was a competant and useful OS?
-
- Probably not, unfortunately the sort of people who make business purchasing
- decisions are the kind of suits who say "I don't play games" as if they were
- pronouncing that they didn't molest people, when in fact they are revealing
- their total lack of creativity, insight and fun.
-
- Maybe that's IBM's strategy with the pool table commercials-- target the
- lucrative dull, stiff and boring market, just the way Microsoft captured the
- vast moron market with Windows.
-
-
-
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- mindlink.bc.ca | boat hadn't been after him at all. It was full of riotous,
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- aka THE JAGUAR!| of Communism in the Soviet Union."
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