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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!news.hal.COM!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: DooM for NetBSD, will it become a reality? Message-ID: <hastyCwDxFz.60u@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <3595ak$l2i@jetsam.ee.pdx.edu> <MICHAELV.94Sep15214739@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <35hgjs$t2n@fw.novatel.ca> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 16:21:35 GMT Lines: 36 In article <35hgjs$t2n@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes: >Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote: >: In article <3595ak$l2i@jetsam.ee.pdx.edu> mcura@ee.pdx.edu (Melissa L. Cura) writes: >: [...] >: What is the deal here? Why on earth, out of the many people that use NetBSD >: and FreeBSD, did no one cry out for our very own version of DooM?!? Am I >: [...] >: I agree. It's sad that all the lamerz whining "why don't you write >: stuff for linux?? it's the k00lest thing ever!" always make so much >: noise that people do stuff for them just to quiet them down. Just > >Ummmm.. One of the ID people posted quite a while back (actually, cross-posted >to the Linux and 386bsd groups) and said he wanted to do ports to various >machines and needed people to lend him hardware/software to do the port. He >then re-posted a while later saying that he'd gotten machines from SGI and DEC >and someone had sent him a Linux box. He said he hadn't heard a word from >the *BSD camps and was sorry but he wouldn't be doing a *BSD port. > >: Definitely. Let's get all the *BSDers together and do a mail blitz! > >Please don't bother the nice man. It would seem you've already had your >chance. IBM, QNX, and Microsoft all approached ID software and asked them if *they* could port DOOM. If I am not mistaken, all that was required was to to sign a NDA. QNX claims that it took them *less* than a day to get the first port going mostly because they started from the SGI port. Cheers, Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, netaudio, tcl/tk, MIME, midi,sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant Home: (415) 495-3046 e-mail hasty@netcom.com