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Originally Posted by grond
Could also be complete fabrication. I don't know the reputation of the magazine but fans wanted to hear those things and a lot of Amiga-related magazines wrote what their audience wanted to read and probably figured it was a way of supporting the platform.
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Even if it was true,
A letter to ID Software
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[original letter to Id Software]
Hi. I would appreciate an answer to this letter from you or someone
who is able to do so... I noticed that you have recently released a
version of Doom for SGI, meaning that porting isn't a difficult task.
Perhaps a port of Doom for Amiga would also be a good idea ? I
realize that the Amiga lacks a chunky graphics mode and it is a
relatively limited market compared to IBM clones, but the game market
for Amiga is quite large. The lack of the chunky graphics mode has
been solved via fast conversion routines (which can be found in
ftp.wustl.edu:/pub/aminet or any other Aminet mirror) or as in the
case for Amiga CD32, the conversion routine is provided in hardware...
Many owners of Amiga 1200 have upgraded their systems with high
speed accelerators, bringing their machines performance similar to the
A4000, which has more than enough horse power to handle Doom.
[response from Id software]
From johnc@idcube.idsoftware.com Sun Sep 4 02:52 EST 1994
From: John Carmack <johnc@idcube.idsoftware.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 94 11:50:23 -0600
To: G.Sanderson@ais.gu.edu.au
Subject: amiga doom
The amiga is not powerfull enough to run DOOM. It takes the full
speed of a 68040 to play the game properly even if you have a chunky
pixel mode in hardware. Having to convert to bit planes would kill
it even on the fastest amiga hardware, not to mention the effect it
would have on the majority of the amiga base.
John Carmack
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3 years later the Doom source code was released, and 3
days after that it was ported to the Amiga. Requirements were any Amiga with a 68020+ CPU and 8MB RAM.