Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 08:41:04 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Why did ID choose DJGPP for Quake? In-Reply-To: <94622644001@out.newmail.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote: > Could anyone please tell me the reason's why ID, who earlier used > Watcom/DOS4GW for DOOM etc switched to DJGPP. I know that > DJGPP is better than Watcom but were there any other reason's > (like financial - no royalties etc, better DPMI support etc) for > making there choice. All of the above. id Software initially wanted to make Quake extensible with C code, and DJGPP was the only free protected-mode compiler (they eventually switched to a scripting language, so this reason is not obvious today). And the DJGPP support simply blew Watcom out of the water, even in those days, when Watcom was still in active development. If you want more details, search the DJGPP mail archives for related items. This issue comes up from time to time, and people who have first-hand knowledge (I'm not one of them) sometimes reply.