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From: fnunez AT cs DOT uct DOT ac DOT za (Fabian Nunez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: QUAKE and DJGPP
Date: 15 Apr 1996 07:17:04 GMT
Organization: University of Cape Town
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In <3170CE61 DOT 68C0 AT chat DOT carleton DOT ca> Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT chat DOT carleton DOT ca> writes:

>I read that ID Software's sequel to DOOM, Quake, was written using DJGPP! I am 
>somewhat incredulous and ask if this is indeed to be taken at face value.

>-- 
>   .*.  "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not
>-()  <  circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a
>   `*'  straight line."     ------------------------------------------------
>        -- B. Mandelbrot   | Paul Derbyshire (PGD) ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca
>______________________ ____|                       pderbysh AT chat DOT carleton DOT ca
> A quiet kind of guy  | I'm on the Web at: http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh

It's true. If you don't believe it, download Quake (I would recommend this
anyway :) and use a binary editor to look at the first few dozen bytes in
ASCII mode. You'll see a copyright sign referring to stub.exe and djasm. If
you do the same to any of your DJGPP files, you'll see exactly the same
header. Look then at any Watcom executable (DOOM, Dark Forces, Duke Nukem 3D,
etc) and you'll see something completely different. Therefore we have two
options:

(1) Watcom have ditched DOS4GW in favour of Charles's/DJ's DPMI loader stub
(2) The Quake demo was written using DJGPP v2.

I think (1) is even less plausible than (2) :)

Cheers
Fabian
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Fabian Nunez, Bsc(hons) student, University of Cape Town                     
email:fnunez AT cs DOT uct DOT ac DOT za   web:http//www.cs.uct.ac.za/~fnunez
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