From tmorten@activision.com Thu Jan 11 15:50:57 EST 1996
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From: Tim Morten <tmorten@activision.com>
Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha,alt.games.mechwarrior2,alt.mechwarrior2
Subject: Re: MW2 for Win95 resolutions?
Date: 11 Jan 1996 13:11:01 -0700
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<I have a hard time believing, frankly, that Activision would 
make such a poor design decision as to strip out two of the 
game's three resolutions.  In fact, I half expect Tim to reply 
that this was done because of some restriction of Windows 95 - 
say, that the DirectDraw routines don't support it, or that 
Win95 forces the game to use a single resolution for both shell 
and simulation, or some other lame Win95 restriction.>

<g> You nailed it.  DDraw offers us only 320x200 and 640x480 
right now.  Microsoft says there working on higher resolutions, 
but we are bound by what they provide us.

Tim.