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From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: DOOM for X
Date: 08 Feb 1994 22:46:37 GMT
Organization: Jordan Hubbard
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In-reply-to: mark@valent.demon.co.uk's message of Tue, 8 Feb 1994 18:42:31 +0000

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!

				Jordan
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