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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: DOOM for X
Message-ID: <hastyCKz1xM.AGC@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <760732951snz@valent.demon.co.uk> <JKH.94Feb8224637@whisker.hubbard.ie> <137351@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 19:24:52 GMT
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In article <137351@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert Sanders) writes:
>jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>
>>In article <760732951snz@valent.demon.co.uk> mark@valent.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) writes:
>>   Apparently id's Dave Taylor (working in his spare time) has it running
>>   under XFree86 2.0 (using the shared memory extensions).  It's very
>>   smooth on his 486 at 320x200, and he's working on the sound support.
>
>>Knowing what DOOM does to achieve shading and motion effects on a standard
>>VGA card, I have a REALLY HARD TIME believing that this could work under
>>X!  This seems like serious rumor material to me!
>
>Well, he posted on a Linux group asking for help with the VoxWare
>sound driver.  Needless to say, I mailed him within the minute :-)
>I got a reply from him, so I'd say Linux is about to get its
>killer app.
>

I want his killer app to run on my P66 and Freebsd...

In fact DOOM is just about the only game I play in DOS :-)

	Amancio
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