From:	mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Quake and Allegro
Date:	23 May 1997 19:02:08 GMT
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Nathan Thompson (apothegm AT softcom DOT net) wrote:
: >> > id software did not use allegro. All of there code is their own i think
: You know, this begs the question: /Could/ Allegro have been used to
: make a Quake-alike game?  I haven't heard of any Quake clones coming
: out under the GPL, but are Allegro's graphic routines (the 3D routines
: in particular) fast enough to handle a Quake environment?  I'd like to
: think they are...

Michael Abrash said he was impressed; there's a link on the Allegro
homepage to some rendering system he wrote using it IIRC.

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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford

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