From: quacci AT vera DOT com (jon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Quake and DJGPP
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 01:21:37 GMT
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997 06:57:58 GMT, frenchc AT cadvision DOT com (Calvin
French) wrote:

>"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT NO DOT SPAM DOT cs DOT com> wrote:
>
>>DJ Delorie wrote:
>>> 
>>> Actually, the initial reason they decided on DJGPP was because they
>>> were going to use DJGPP instead of quakec, and they wanted a compiler
>>> they could distribute with the game itself.  In the end, they wrote
>>> quakec instead.
>
>>Trust DJ to deflate all of our wild speculations.  Turns out the reason
>>was strictly prosaic.  ;)
>
>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 hear around here that they'll be programming for windows95 and UNIX
sorts of systems in the future. But Then why not a DOS version too...
I still think you can get more out of the DOS environment (by virtue
of the depth of knowledge on how to work around it, and to get right
at the core of processor and memory directly without invasionary OS
overhead/overseeing) than presently can be gotten from any of the Big
GUI systems. Maybe not for long, however.

I'll say it again- although never intended, DOS is now a game
platform, and I think it will live for some time in that capacity. 

BTW, I can't see why Id would go back to Watcom for whatever auxillary
needs they have for a compiler- DJGPP obviously does good enough (!),
and you can have all the source code, and no complications like with
DOS4G, etc. I'd think they'll use their own compilers before they go
back to Watcom.