From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: "Are Allegro's routines fast enough to write Quake-like games?" - No.
Date: 25 May 1997 07:15:08 GMT
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jon (quacci AT vera DOT com) writes:
> On Sat, 24 May 1997 14:34:52 -0700, SpankE <dingfam AT imag DOT net> wrote:
> 
>>Carmack and Abrash both state that Quake was written in 100% ANSI C
>>aswell.
> 
> This is not the same thing as saying it was 100% C, just that what C
> they used was 100% ANSI. 

Ah, so the non-portable graphics stuff was in assembly or something?

> Anyway, they must have used at least some assembler for some things,
> I'd think.

Someone said 10,000 lines of assembler. Of course, assembler is very
spongy: it takes twenty just to print a few characters on the screen. :))

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