Re: [NTLK] [OT] Marathon! Formerly Why isn't this in production!?

From: David Ensteness (denstene_at_mac.com)
Date: Sat Jan 25 2003 - 14:17:35 EST


Marathon won't lag on 68K Macs, I used to run it on a Quadra 800 with
24MB of RAM, no issues what so ever, heck at one point, I even ran it
off a SyQuest EZ Flyer 230MB drive [kinda like a Zip] and not even a
hard drive ... no lag ... Marathon rocked.

David

On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 02:03 PM, James Elliott wrote:

>
> I just had seven friends over a couple weeks ago and we played
> Marathon II from around 9:30 PM until 7:30 AM. Only four of us had
> played Marathon when it was new (it's still my favourite game), but
> even the people who were used to Quake and Unreal had a blast. One
> guy was on a 7100 and he wasn't lagging at all.
> I've also been thinking about making our house into a level, but
> players would beam in so close to each other that it probably
> wouldn't work too well.
> Also, I can't take screenshots during the game, so I could only take
> pictures of the carnage reports. Isn't there an app that lets you do
> that?

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