>   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
 JS> What makes you think we don't?   We take a lot of 
 JS> suggestions, but ultimately
 JS> it's a "3D Realms" game.   There also comes a point in 
 JS> every game when you go
 JS> "No More, this is it.  Time to move on to something else".
  Okay then... got any upcoming games you'd like some user-input on?  Prey 
may be a good example.
 JS> You shouldn't *NEED* a string.  That's the whole point 
 JS> here.  What you do with
 JS> init string variables is almost pointless.  It doesn't make a whole lot 
of
 JS> difference.  That's the way the code was written.  It 
 JS> was written to work with
 JS> ATZ, and on the Sportsters here at Apogee, it works fine.
  But on mine, it doesn't.  Until I just recently figured out an effective 
init, I was getting jittery play, and half the time I couldn't even connect.  
With "ATZ."
  Maybe it's because mine is from 1995.  No doubt, things have changed 
somewhat since then.
 > "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.
 JS> From the time we ship it, depending on where you are in 
 JS> the US, it's about 3-5
 JS> working days from the day WE SHIP IT.   Outside of the US takes longer,
 JS> especially in some countries where our shipments get inspected in 
customs.
  Okay, so about a week.  Thanks.
 JS> As for the cheesy box, we don't ship those anymore, we 
 JS> just use CD specific
 JS> padded envelopes.
  Good... though what happened when I got Duke 3D was pretty interesting.  It 
was May of last year - and yet here comes a generic 3D Realms box, with a 
Ruins screenshot on the side.  Despite the fact that, for a long time, Ruins 
had been renamed Powerslave and sent off to Playmates to continue.
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