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Quote:>    Christopher> Gee, even though the README says "no bug reports,"
>    Christopher> does anyone think iD can be convinced to fix this?
>From the way it is worded in the README, I'd say it is best to keep
>you mouth shut and hope one of the developers reads this newsgroup!

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MPP OS Development  Richardson, TX

I just tried it today on my 486/40 and performance was quite
acceptable.  The graphics for the -2, -3 and -4 options were hosed
though, unless this is supposed to be new Underwater Doom.

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wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men
shouting and killing and reveling in joy.  Then the liberated Old Ones would
teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and
all the Earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.

: If you read the README.linux file carefully, you will note that Dave
: is already aware of the problem.  His description of the magnification
: option(s) (-1, -2, -3, etc. on the command line) concludes with
: something to the effect of "this turns out to be a bad idea on Linux".

Are you sure?  I construed that line to mean that Linux took a
performance hit, rather than meaning the modes didn't work at all.

If they didn't work, and he knew it, why'd he leave them in?  Why mention
them in the README?

Logic indicates ...

-- Chris

       "... but I want to use all eight comm ports SIMULTANEOUSLY!"
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Quote:> That's four messages so far that report that pixel doubling is trashed.

> Gee, even though the README says "no bug reports," does anyone think iD
> can be convinced to fix this?

> -- Chris

                        Enjoy life to its fullest!

: I just tried it today on my 486/40 and performance was quite
: acceptable.  The graphics for the -2, -3 and -4 options were hosed
: though, unless this is supposed to be new Underwater Doom.

That's four messages so far that report that pixel doubling is trashed.

Gee, even though the README says "no bug reports," does anyone think iD
can be convinced to fix this?

-- Chris

       "... but I want to use all eight comm ports SIMULTANEOUSLY!"
   PGP 2.6 public key available by finger for the clinically paranoid.

: : This was just updated and linux doom is out. If you don't have
: : a Pentium though I wouldn't bother wasting the ftp time. Even
: : in the smallest window size it ran like a dog on our 486/66
: : with 16M of RAM. T

: I just tried it today on my 486/40 and performance was quite
: acceptable.  

It is even fine on a 386/40 with 8MB, if the image details are
set to LOW in the OPTIONS menu. As the screen resolution I used
a homemade 320x200 with the SVGA XFree server on an ISA ET4000.

I suggest "wasting" the ftp time, even if you don't have a
pentium ;-)

Ciao,

Andreas

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Thanks, Steve
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Quote:>Does anyone else have the problem that the status window with the
>guy's head and health doesn't show up? I just get the whole window
>filled with the dungeon view and have no idea how much health is left.

>Thanks, Steve

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: Yep, runs great, But setting detail-level to low makes the picture
: squeeze to half width. I'm using a cirrus 5428 card for VL-bus and the
: SVGA-server (Xfree 2.1). Has anyone else experienced this?

   Yes.  I've seen it on both the Linux and SGI versions.  Anyone know
why this happens?  Sort of annoying if you want to speed up your machine
by lowering the detail, since it doesn't really work.

                                                Bill

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Bill McKinnon                        Senior Information Technology Assistant

: Steve: hit ESC, go to Options, select Screen Size and decrease it one notch.

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:                               God fights on the side of the heaviest artillery.

Hitting plus and minus during play has the same effect.

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