From: matrix AT ionsys DOT com (MCheu)
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Subject: Re: Quake and DJGPP
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 04:37:20 GMT
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On Sat, 19 Apr 1997 01:00:19 +0000, "John M. Aldrich"
<fighteer AT NO DOT SPAM DOT cs DOT com> wrote:

>Calvin French wrote:
>> 
>> Yeah, no kidding. Way to rain on a parade... Wait, no... Hmn. Well
>> that sort of sucks; still it was nice that a game like quake could be
>> made in djgpp. ID will prolly go over to Watcom for thier next game,
>> though eh? :(
>
>I don't see why - they already have a free development tool right there
>in their hands.  Hey, wouldn't it be neat if they decided to use Allegro
>for their next game as well?  ;)
>
>Well, we can hope anyway...

Well, this I can only think of one possible reason why:  Windows95.
With the MS pushing Win95 and their X-stuff, most of the newer games
coming out are for Win95.  Not to put down DJGPP, but since DJGPP is a
DOS-only compiler, and Watcom does support Win32 that would seem give
Watcom a slight Edge.
MCheu
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