Re: WOLFENSTEIN Questions

[Liam Busey <liam1@ix.netcom.com>]

Martin Wilson wrote:
> 
>> For maximum enjoy of this software you should have an excellerated >> IIgs with at least 4mb of RAM and a hard drive. Wolf 3-D will not run >> on a stock machine.
> 
> Why does it need 4MEG?
 
Because the docs say so. ;)

> The original PC version needed less than a 1MEG, in fact the
> SNES cartridge version is 1MEG for the whole cart, the
> console itself only has a couple hundred K of its own
> storage.

That's probably because the original Wolf3D was designed to run on top
of an old version of dos. Wolf3D IIgs run on top of the latest GSOS
(system 6.0.1) which undoubtably requires more memory than dos. The SNES
has no OS.

Liam Busey