BulletDust
Supreme [H]ardness
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I think ever since DOS, yes, Windows has always been the dominant platform for PC gaming. You know something I'm forgetting?
There was a platform called 68k, it was the dominant gaming platform in the day and the mere notion that an x86 based Windows office machine could be a gamer was quite laughable. It wasn't until the advent of Quake that the PC began to show promise as a gamer, and ironically enough that was running OGL as DX was a mess.
DOS never dominated gaming, 68k smashed it until real 3D accelerators came along and that wasn't until about 96/97 and still running OGL.
It was one of the most unlikely scenarios ever, but 68k was toppled in favour of the x86 platform and pushed the whole time by none other than Gabe Newell, the individual behind probably the most successful modern day push towards Linux gaming yet.
The present unpredictable and downright laughable decisions of Microsoft as late aren't in any way compatible to the Microsoft of the past. The decisions of Microsoft as late are based around pure desperation to find an alternate revenue base, and people don't like it.
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