Re: Doom Conversion (was Dragons Lair

[mjensen2@wpo.uwsuper.edu (MATTHEW L. JENSEN)]

In article <3c7s73$rh5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> fw060@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason Thomas) writes:

>Anyway, there is still one question, COULD Doom be done on the ][gs?
>I know it would take a 10Mhz (maybe 14Mhz) chip, and a HD (what
>serious ][gs user is out there that does NOT have a hard drive?)
>and 2, maybe 4 meg of Ram. And don't forget a graphics card!
>could this setup be powerful enough for Doom?
>and who would convert the Engine? I do not know how Burger Bill
>got the rights to release a ][gs Wolfenstein, but there must be a way
>to obtain rights for Doom.

I believe it could be done.  We have a 66 mhz 486dx2 at home, and Doom 
really runs much faster than it needs to.  I believe that it would run quite 
playably at 33 mhz.  A 14mhz IIgs could probably produce that kind of speed, 
so it would probably possible to have a playable Doom-GS.

The other hardware stuff probably wouldn't be a problem, either.  I 
considered myself to be an average "serious" IIgs user when I had a ROM 03 
with 5 MB RAM and 80 MB hard drive.  (Actually, I ran it at stock 3mhz until 
I was forced to [sigh] sell it for college money.  I never used anything 
faster, so the speed never bothered me.  I guess I was probably a little 
less powerful than most power users in that respect) 

About licensing, etc: I don't know much about Doom and/or its technologies, 
so this may be really ignorant, but couldn't a Doom clone be done for the 
IIgs if licensing were the only problem?

The only problem that my (admittedly simple) mind sees with a Doom-GS is 
that it wouldn't be fun to play (for *me*) because Doom as it exists today 
is not much fun for me.  I could be selling the game short, though,
because I stopped playing it after about 1/2 hour.  From what I've seen 
though, there's not much more to it than the initial "Gee-whiz, that looks 
real nifty."

Anyway, that's all I know!

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