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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (424)3/25/1998 12:21:00 AM
From: Sleeperz  Read Replies (2) of 633
 
Well thats more of a Hardware lock than having to rework the Sw.

>>>Well, not quite. Japanese PSX CDs won't work on American machines without being hacked, and vice versa. Same for Europe. So you have to produce several different CDs. <<<

But all the best games require a Voodoo card to run the best.
For the price of a Voodoo you can buy a N64 or a PSX.

>>>You can write an English-language game for a middle of the road Pentium with CDROM drive and have access to a market of 75 million machines.<<<

Where are the many sources of PC authoring Help. If you don't run
in the same circle as ID, Apogee, etc where is there help. Then
again those guys will probably sue your ass if you hacked Quake or
Quake II and reverse engineered it.

>>>And their support for game programmers is far better than Microsoft's support. Albeit also needed more too, since there are so many sources of PC authoring help.<<<
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