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From: rob@maths.anu.edu.au (Robbert Hofman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: DooM for NetBSD, will it become a reality?
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 16:09:31 +1000
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References: <MICHAELV.94Sep18152042@mindbender.headcandy.com> <35ig7r$kcn@agate.berkeley.edu> <35il87$ck5@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <hastyCwG9nq.5AF@netcom.com>
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In article <hastyCwG9nq.5AF@netcom.com>, hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty
Jr) wrote:
> >>Didn't anyone read the "Hardware for DOOM" message I posted here? I've
> >>been trying to organise this for awhile, and even have a number of
> >>pieces of equipment already lined up.. I did find it curious that no one
> >>responded..
> >
> >I have:
> >
> >486DX/33 w/16MB, case, PS, 1.44MB
> >ATI Graphics Ultra Pro w/2MB
> >420MB IDE w/controller
> >Keyboard
> >MS or Logitech mouse
> >MediaVision PAS 16 (not supported by NetBSD)
> >Well? What does anyone think?
>
> You got to play Doom with a GUS 8)
>
> I also offered one of my spare systems so lets wait and see
> what happens next and this is the second time that I am offering
> my system . The first time ID didn't want my system because of
> of the FreeBSD people had offered a system.
>
>
>
This is an extract of what I got from ID Software:
If you wouldn't mind terribly, please post on whatever newsgroup
the *BSD'ers haunt:
Please don't send letters plugging a *BSD version.
In January or so, I offered to port the game to any high-end UNIX
platform loaned to me. As examples, I gave Sparc, RS/6k, HPPA,
etc. Note the abundance of nifty RISC systems and complete lack
of x86 platforms in that offer.
I did a Linux port for grins. It had nothing to do with that post.
Linux is what I run at home, so it was convenient, and I had fun.
We may be setting up a *BSD ftp site soon. If so, we may do a *BSD
port. Please note the use of "may" in both sentences. Please just
do whatever *BSD'ers normally do without DOOM in the meantime, and
understand that numbers have nothing to do with it. Were numbers
the thing, DOS having over an order of magnitude more installed
bases than any UNIX platform, would be the only version available.
This isn't about sales or numbers.
Thanks.
=-ddt->
This message bought to you by the letter D and the hint
"1-800-DONTMASSMAILUS"