On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Ian Collier wrote: > I gather that a recent release of Quake came out first on Linux, but not > having the first idea what that even is :o) I couldn't substantiate that.
Wrong - Quake3Arena Test came out first on MacOS, then Linux, then Windows. But the reason for this was that MacOS has a more standardized hardware base, so things were more likely to work without massive trouble. Windows was left last because it has the largest user base (probably by a factor of at least 10), and they wanted to fix cross-platform bugs before exposing their product to mass market. Not that I'm saying that Linux is an negligible market - people are releasing games such as Myth II - but in terms of games it has much less significance than Windows or even MacOS. Andrew -- -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- My other -- http://mnemotech.ucam.org -- .sig is a -- Part 3 Materials Science, Cambridge -- PDF file --
