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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Please don't port doom to FreeBSD Message-ID: <hastyCwrJqG.I9A@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <mark.1157.2E807D03@novell.business.uwo.ca> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 00:51:51 GMT Lines: 40 In article <mark.1157.2E807D03@novell.business.uwo.ca> mark@novell.business.uwo.ca writes: >I run FreeBSD at the school, and Linux at home. I bought pull out IDE drive >brackets for $20.00 I have a cheap 40meg drive that runs dos stuff like doom. >For next to nothing, you can boot dos and run the dos version of the game. I already do something similar to that: I select dos or unix by booting of my 1.2gb disk drive or my IDE drive. Guess what? I hate booting DOS!! >If you actually ran the unix version, you would want to go back to dos(speed, >sound support, size of the screen - doom is a very small window under X) Actually, if we had someone from the FreeBSD team working on the port we could at least fix the sound support problem. as for the very small window, is not a terribly difficult problem to switch to a lower resolution... For speed, we could make a pentium compiled distribution and/or let doom talk straight to the vga frame buffer . Of course, all this is hypothetical, given that ddt will probably not port DOOM or let someone with a NDA port DOOM to FreeBSD. Well the moral of this story is if all like DOOM so much we are going to have to build our own. The question is: How bad do we want a DOOM like engine. Yes, I know about "wt"... Actually, "wt" is not a bad start.. Oh well... Hmmm.. Now I was looking around for "Dive", Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment. Lets see :) 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