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- From: andyp@admiral.uucp (Andy Patrizio)
- Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipsets
- Reply-To: andyp@admiral.uucp (Andy Patrizio)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:10:12 GMT
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- ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:
-
- > '(Paul Prescod) writes:
- > '>We'll have OS/2 games when AGA games become plentiful. OS/2 is brand
- > '>new so it doesn't have many yet, but it won't be long before there are
- > '>hundreds of OS/2 games.
- >
- > While I would love to see native OS2 games, I think it will be a long
- > time before we see any. Discounting public domain games, look at how few
- > Windows games there are, and Win3.x has sold 15+ million copies. OS2 will
- > be around 2 million at yearend, thats just not enough market for game
- > software companies. Christ, they are bailing out of the Amiga market and
- > thats around 3-4 million machines.
- > 360 gives me some hope though, in there update to Harpoon v1.32 they
- > have a whole section devoted to running it under OS2. Hopefully they migh
- > create an OS2 version of Harpoon II someday. I doubt it, but you can alwa
- > dream. How many other game companies have devoted an entire section of a
- > manual to OS2?
- >
- > Greg Greene
- > ggg@kepler.unh.edu
-
- Um, slight correction. Windoze has an installed base around 12 million,
- but not everyone uses it. It comes pre-installed on systems going out the
- door. That doesn't mean people want to use it.
-
- Second, there is a program called Mirrors that takes Windows apps (while
- still in development stages, of course) and converts them to OS/2.
- Therefore, concurrent development is possible, and will probably increase
- in the future.
-
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- andyp%admiral.uucp@yale.edu (Andy Patrizio) <yale!admiral!andyp>
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