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lazarus@ug.cs.dal.ca (Chuck Turner) writes:

>Hi people.

>I've had nine responses to my questionnaire so far (thanks).  Something 
s
>puzzling me, however.  Of those nine responses, seven people have Window
 3.1
>on their system, yet of those seven, six people have said they would pre
er
>a game that didn't use Windows.  I'm curious about this, as Windows seem

>to me to be an extremely powerful application that is perfectly suited t

>our project.  My partner and I were going to use *a* windowing system an
way,
>it was just a matter of deciding if we would use one of the shareware
>packages, or shell out the money for Borland C++ 3.1.

>If you folks could post or mail reasons against using Windows for a game
>environment, please let me know.  As I said, we're most amazed by this
>trend.  

>Thanks for your help.

>					- Chuck 

>PS:  Our other option, besides Windows 3.1 is TCXL55 by Inovative Data
>     Concepts.

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al.ca
AAAH!@

The answer to this is actually simple.  I'm not sure who originated the
quote, but it's one of my favorites: "Roaches crawl under doors; programs
crawl under Windows."

It is technically possible to write a fine game under windows-- if screen
refresh isn't a big deal, and if the graphics are static and very slow. 
Witness "Castle of the Winds"-- primitive, but a fine effort nonetheless. 
Lookit-- I'm running a '486 with an s3 card and I find windows
mind-bogglingly slow.  BC++3.1 won't help much; their text windowing
system is text-only, and the graphics version (objectWindows) is simply a
Windows 3.1 shell-- you'd be running Windows anyway.

...although BC++3.1 would let you run the new Windowing version of
yakIcons (plug plug)(sorry about that).

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