From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 24 08:24:52 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA19494 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 08:24:52 -0800 Received: from mail4.netcom.com (root@mail4.netcom.com [192.100.81.134]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA19488; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 08:24:51 -0800 From: patl@asimov.lashley.slip.netcom.com Received: from lashley.slip.netcom.com by mail4.netcom.com (8.6.9/Netcom) id IAA29291; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 08:23:29 -0800 Received: by lashley.slip.netcom.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA04972; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 08:26:36 -0800 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 08:26:36 -0800 Message-Id: <9502241626.AA04972@lashley.slip.netcom.com> To: mdavis@io.cts.com, vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br, ache@astral.msk.su Subject: Re: An apology.. Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com Reply-To: lashley@netcom.com X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk |> >Morgan Davis said: |> >> |> >> If this isn't testament to the fact that we need a Doom interface for |> >> FreeBSD to take out frustrations ... :-) |> >> |> >> |> >Well, I'll asked IDSofware about the promised FreeBSD doom port, the |> >answer was: NO, NEVER |> |> Why? Especially about NEVER... Perhaps they were talking about an -official- port. I know that the Sun port was an unofficial collaboration between one of the Id engineers and a couple of Sun engineers; so perhaps something similar can be done for FreeBSD. (BTW, the Sun port has two flavors - standard MIT X11 SHM [shared memory extension] and Sun DGA [Direct Graphic Access]. The DGA version on an SS20 is the fastest Doom implementation in existance. Even faster than the SGI version. Since Doom regulates the playing speed against a real- time clock, this translates into a full 30 frames per second, even in four player networked nightmare deathmatch scenarios in complex settings. And you still have some CPU left over for that job running in the other window. You know, the one you are getting paid for...) -Pat My opinions are my own. For a small royalty, they can be yours as well... Pat Lashley, Senior Software Engineer, Henry Davis Consulting 1098 Lynn, Sunnyvale, CA 94087 || 408/720-9039 || lashley@netcom.com