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Re: Cool jobs at a cool company.

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From: Quentin Christensen
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 00:00
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Warren Marshall wrote:
> 
> > >I am also tired of people boasting..Get to the real world.It takes REAL PPL
> > >AND REAL EFFORT to build something REAL. Be REAL AND JUST THINK WHO PLAYS
> > >X86 BASED games??????President Nixon???I still doubt it...
> 
> Who plays X86 games?   I've heard of a few that were somewhat popular...  What
> were they called again?  Oh yeah...  Doom2, Quake1, Quake2, Unreal, Diablo,
> Forsaken, etc...
> 
> --
> 
> Warren Marshall
> "Taskmaster"
> 
> Level designer for Wheel of Time
> www.wheeloftime.com

aaah, but yeah, it takes real effort to make a decent game on a 8086,
maybe that was what he meant?  (of course the way windows programmers
are popping up all over the place thinking they're experts, cos they can
make a dialog box with delphi, it does seem to take some people real
effort to code for a real platform: DOS (windows doesn't count, it's a
MENU - get it ppl - A MENU, I can explain the difference if you wish...

Quentin.

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From: Quentin Christensen <ogo1@mynx.wow.aust.com>
Subject: Re: Cool jobs at a cool company.
Date: 1998/09/06
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