From: locke AT mcs DOT net (Peter Johnson)
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Subject: Re: Quake and Allegro
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 03:04:29 GMT
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On 20 May 1997 05:53:19 GMT, ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul
Derbyshire) wrote:

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>I suspect Quake uses Allegro. The startup crap in the console mentions
>packfiles! I wonder if Shawn Hargreaves got anything as swapware?
No.  Quake does NOT use Allegro.  The 'packfiles' mentioned are unique
to Quake (for now :).  You can find sample source that uses the
packfiles (management utils, etc) in id's ftp directories.

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Peter Johnson
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