From: mdekker AT wins DOT uva DOT nl (Martijn Dekker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,rec.games.programmer
Subject: Re: The numer 1 compiler, DJGPP or MSVC  Here's a good rating comparision
Date: 17 Sep 1997 16:29:18 +0200
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In article <MPG DOT e89449bc54d5f4d98986d AT news DOT videotron DOT net> sumatose AT NOSPAM DOT usa DOT net writes:
++
++In group rec.games.programmer, Herman Schoenfeld says...
++> Brian Hook has stated several times that id are using MSVC. I don't know if
++> Carmack's gone on record, but they are using MSVC... There will be no DOS 
++> version of Quake 2.
++
++> ID used MSVC to design QUAKE as well. Released in DJGPP. I already stated that 
++> building code in MSVC is preferable, however, releasing is definatly not.
++
++WinQuake and GLQuake were BOTH SHIPPED AND RELEASE WITH MICROSOFT 
++VISUAL C++ 4.x. Quake DOS was built and release with gcc only.  
++(and designed on NeXT, so fuck you.) Hey : Read Abrash sometime, 
++and check the actual programs's executable, would ya?
++
++>> I tire of you.
++
++And we're all sick of you.  And curious about how many apps 
++you've actually shipped, also.
++


I seem to remember reading in Carmacks .plan that Quake was to be their
LAST dos program they (idsoftware) would make.

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