JS>> What makes you think that?
 >   You ARE tech support, aren't you?  :-)
 JS> Yes, plus a lot more.
  Then please please PLEASE take in new ideas, or at least try to incorporate 
a few of them into your planned games.  After all, most game companies are 
successful because they implement what the PLAYERS want, not what the execs 
think will sell.
 >   And I don't know about that "no new ideas" thing... I understand the
 > Plutonium Pak was created because of popular demand.  Maybe if I get
 > enough people to write you guys, it'll happen.
 JS> It wasn't.  That was always planned from the beginning.
  Sure it was.  :-)  And I imagine you were planning to do Duke 3D even 
before a certain 3D game came out December 10th, 1993.
 >   Not even that bug fix?  I mean, it's not that serious, but....
 JS> v1.5 is it.  No more.
    Okay...
 >   Oh, and something of Shadow Warrior... do you think it will perform
 > better for "fake IPX" software for BBSes, like SERIPX?  Even if it's
 > just an improvement in the normal IPX code itself?
 JS> Shadow Warrior will have the same multi-player 
 JS> capabilities as Duke Nukem 3D,
 JS> so however Duke performed, SW will perform the same way.   Same thing 
or
 JS> sound.
  No network code improvements?  Hmm.  Well, could you guys at least make 
sure it works more capably for USR Sportsters?  I've had tremendous fun 
trying to get a working init string for it.
 > full version of Duke 3D and didn't get it until a month or so later.
 JS> Keep in mind, if you order the day or week the 
 JS> shareware comes out, you'll be
 JS> waiting a few months, since we don't start shipping the 
 JS> full version for about
 JS> 3 months or so until after the first sharware is released.
  Yes... when I ordered Duke 3D in March or April, I knew I would have to 
wait - I was visiting the 3D Realms Web site on a semi-regular basis, trying 
to keep track of when it would be done.  I also knew that I would probably 
get my copy late, since I wasn't one of those 
"good-grief-gotta-get-my-Duke-now" addicts.
  What I meant was, how long from when you send my copy on its way (when it's 
finished, of course) to when it arrives in that cheesy black 3D Realms box, 
in my mailbox.
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