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Re: VGA, Retraces, and DMA

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From: Jeremy Corley
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 20:33
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ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud) writes:

>From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
>>
>>[I'm glad somebody agrees with me about Wolfenstein 3-D. I
>>have come to the conclusion that it's a computer junkie's game:  if
>>you aren't knowledgable enough to realize that the graphics are
>>impressive then you probably won't enjoy playing.]
>>
>>--
>>James Hague   
>>exuhag@exu.ericsson.se

>Wolfenstein 3D is one of the best examples of the fact that while some people
>have remarkable skill at writing code and doing graphics, the skill of writing
>a game is something else that they don't always have.

>A wonderful bit of programming, wrapped around a very simple game--lifted from
>the original.

> - Ron Sharp.

	I hole-heartedly agree.  I have an internship at a place that writes video
games and we review _lots_ of games to keep up to date. We coders we quite impressed
with this game.

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