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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 17:29:55 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peter AT mcs DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: Quake II???
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Thomas Harte wrote:
> 
> >Quake II???
> >
> >(Did id software decide to drop DJGPP? Ack!)
> 
>         Yes they did. They decided to go Win32 exclusive, so started using a
> Win32 compiler instead. All quite simple really. I don't think they have time or
> can be bothered with trying to get the MicroSoft DirectDraw & all that working
> in RSXDJNT or whatever. And it's not as though they're short of cash . . .
> 
>                 -Thomas

They're not using DirectShit.. They're an OpelGL and RenderGL advocate.
MicroScum has for once not convinced a major company that their product
is better, and as for why then win32, dos sucks on P6 family processors
and Linux isn't commercially a big enough a platform to be interresting.

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Peter Zijlstra
aka. The Mage / ZeMBLA - Main Coder
E-Mail: peter at mcs dot nl
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