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Heh, no. WinG was a disaster. It took years before game developers trusted Windows again. From http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2013/01/04/the-disnesy-disaster/ htt
by pdw 11y ago
Heh, no. WinG was a disaster. It took years before game developers trusted Windows again. From http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2013/01/04/the-disnesy-disaster/ http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2013/01/04/the-disnesy-disaster...
"Disney had done a deal with Compaq Computers to ship the Lion King Game pre-installed on a million Compaq Computers destined as Christmas presents for children everywhere across the country. The NEW Presario line had a NEW Cirrus video chip and NEW Cirrus video driver never before tested with WinG."
- ryandrake 11y agoI'm no fan of 90's-era Microsoft, but, come on, that wasn't fair. Disney (not MS) did a deal with Compaq (not MS) to ship a game (not written by MS) on a PC with a Cirrus (not MS) graphics card whose driver (not written by MS) was apparently never tested. And somehow, this was Microsoft's fault?
- pdw 11y agoI didn't say that it was Microsoft's fault. But the message that game devs got was that you couldn't trust even big names such as Compaq to ship working drivers, and hence you couldn't trust Windows as a platform.