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Article #781Re: Splitting the Group
From: checker
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:01
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:01
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>|> If going to the trouble of creating a group for x86/MSDOS/VGA nitty-gritty >|> games programmers, why not go whole-hog? Why limit it to VGA? >|> How about a news group for VGA, Sound Blasters, reading joystick ports, and >|> all the other low level things required to write a game for clones? Okay, how about alt.games.ibm-pc.programming? Someone else suggested comp.graphics.ibm-pc, but that only focuses on graphics, so it may be a bad idea for the same reason vga-programming was. Of course, there are a lot of folks who don't care about games but still want to do VGA programming. Where would they fit in? Chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!yale!yale.edu!cmcl2!acf5!checker From: checker@acf5.NYU.EDU (checker) Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer Subject: Re: Splitting the Group Message-ID: <1890@acf5.NYU.EDU> Date: 19 Aug 92 02:01:49 GMT References: <714144149.21073@zooid.guild.org> <1992Aug18.181850.18569@news.uit.no> Organization: New York University Lines: 14