Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!dmsperth.per.dms.CSIRO.AU!uniwa!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty 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 Lines: 28 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 -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X