Excerpts from Compu$erve discussion on new DOOM for Windows



 From what I've read on WinDoom, it will use the new WING api for windows.
 This is a high performance graphics API specifically targeted to make
 Windows/Chicago a more suitable games platform, with performance approaching 
 native DOS. I'm sure I read somewhere, that with a graphics co-processor or 
 accelerator running under windows, performance might even be better than the 
 dos version, since the DOS version would not take advantage of an accelerator 
 where the windows drivers would.
 


 Actually, I can talk about this with some authority. I've been writing 
 Windows video drivers for the past 4 years or so. I thought that WinG was
 primarily designed to let games access the frame buffer directly, so that 
 they can do things like Doom, which are not well supported under the GDI 
 programming model. (I need to read more about WinG, I may be mistaken about
 this.) 



 Do you suppose the present versions of Doom will be upgraded to these 
 new Windows version?

 I don't know. I'd think they'd do the Windows port to Doom: Hell On Earth,
 which is due out later this year. I think id is trying to stablize the 
 current version of DOOM, so that they can move on to other things. 



 Do you think it will run under NT?

 Who knows. MS has promised WinG for Windows 3.1 and for Chicago. I don't 
 know if they have an NT version in the works or not.



 WinDoom shown at the Game Developer's Conference was running only
 SLIGHTLY slower than the DOS version at 640 by 480 (stretched).  And it
 was running on Win 3.1 with WinG, not Chicago. Why do we need WinDoom?  
 No hassle with config.sys, sound drivers, video drivers, memory managers
 is a good place to start.  Personally I hate to get of Windows or reboot
 to play Doom all the time.



 After downloading the screen shot of Windoom, with Excel 4.0 in the
 background, I'm convinced that we NEED Windoom. At work, it is so
 counter-productive to have to quit windows each time we play some
 net-doom.  It would be much easier to just click on the icon.  And for
 years I've been saying that "Alt-Tab" is the greatest "boss" key 
 ever programmed!

 Now if I could find a way to get some *work* done at work....