From:	Jeff Weeks <pweeks AT execulink DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Commercial Games
Date:	17 Apr 1997 00:06:03 GMT
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Alan Wilson wrote:
> 
> At 08:16 AM 4/16/97 GMT, you wrote:
> >Can anyone tell me of any commercial games that were compiled using
> >DJGPP? The only one I know of is Quake.
> >
> >The reason I asking is that I think the best ad campaign for DJGPP
> >would be a high quality commercial game. Does Quake have a DJGPP spiel
> >in the credits? It could encourage programmers to swap to THE compiler,
> >DJGPP.

The fact that it comes with cwsdpmi.exe is good proff that it's a DJGPP
program, if that helps.

> On the same line of thinking, why was Quake compiled with DJGPP anyway????

Why not!?!  DJGPP is fast and free.  It's perfect for games.  ID
origionally used Watcom C, which is expensive and about the same speed
of DJGPP (anybody have any real speed comparisons?).  Perhaps they
thought they'd just try out DJGPP and see what it's like... since it's
obviosly a worthy competitor against Watcom.

Jeff

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