Re: Hicolor DOOM shots anywhere?

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From: Mark S. Wyman
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1993 15:05

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gmontem@eis.calstate.edu (George A. Montemayor) writes:

>--

>Why would ID Software want to do that? You would need more disk space if
>you want a high color DOOM game. I don't want another game that takes an
>incredible amount of disk space. Imagine all of those FTP transfers going
>on with a big game.

Same was said a few years back when people started asking for 256 color
games instead of 16 color games.  256 color games will take TWICE as much
memory!  Personally, I can't wait for 16 million color games in the
future. :)

Mark

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