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From: cooper@s2.s1.elec.uq.oz.au (Robert Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: DOOM for X
Date: 13 Mar 1994 03:21:49 GMT
Organization: University of Queensland
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ddt@daisy.cc.utexas.edu (David Taylor) writes:
>The good news: I've been contacted by SGI, DEC, and Sun on ports to
>their OS's. The SGI Indy arrived today. Neat machine. An AXP and
>SS10 may be on their way.
Lucky bastard :) Doom is becoming incredibly huge....can't
wait to see the Cray port...is there a Y-MP on it's way too
I heard ther a neat machine as well :)
>The bad news: I hope y'all don't mind if I restrict the ports to
>keyboard input. I'm kinda wondering about the rudeness of yanking the
>mouse into the window for mouse control. Would rather not muck with
>it. Real men use keyboards only anyway.. (I'm an incurable vi loser).
>The sound may also be sorta medium OK. My Linux sound code doesn't
>sound super hot because Linux as w/ other UNIXes isn't too pleased with
>real-time sound scheduling, mixing, modelling, etc. The effect is a
>few sound effects like item-up which sound as though there's a
>Katherine Hepburn filter on the output.
I'm sure that'll be fine. Any idea on when you'll let it loose
on the un-washed hords of Doom fanatics?
>Kind of crunched for time at work, now. The jag ports beckon.
> =-ddt->
Rob....
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Robert Cooper Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
cooper@elec.uq.oz.au Dept. Computer and Elec. Engineering,
University of Queensland
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