Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/05/27/03:33:55
On Sat, 24 May 1997, jon wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 1997 22:44:55 -0600, Jawed Karim <jawed AT tc DOT umn DOT edu>
> wrote:
>
> <...>
>
> >hmm Quake source is really all over the place by now...
>
> You mean there really is something to all this "download quakesrc.c"
> stuff I see in the newsgroups? If so, how in the world would that have
> happened?
>
The Quake source was not sent to crack.com for OpenGL porting and someone
intercepted it; crack.com is responsible for id ports to other OS's (e.g.
the Doom for UNIX port was done by them too). The Quake source has
Makefiles for Linux/X11, Linux/SVGAlib, DOS, and Linux/Alpha (which only
goes to show that the assembly-language parts aren't TOO hard to port to a
totally different processor). The official story is that some party
hacked into crack.com's web server and put the Quake source up for
download on their main page..
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