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From: brennan AT mack DOT rt66 DOT com (Brennan "Mr. Wacko" Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: QUAKE and DJGPP
Date: 16 Apr 1996 13:45:45 -0600
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In article <199604160309 DOT XAA20709 AT delorie DOT com>,
DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> By the way what was the specific features to ID ?
>
>Near pointers.  Charles worked with them the most, implementing
>special support in cwsdpmi for this as well as core support in djgpp
>for new memory region handling.

Thank goodness for iD! I think I would die without nearptrs. ;) And
I don't mind them making 16MB/P5 systems standard gamer's equipment, either.

On an semi-unrelated note..
I think my evangelizing DJGPP in rec.games.programmer is having an effect.
The attitude used to be "buggy DOS port, uses nonstandard go32." Now it's
"faster code than Watcom, DPMI, 32-bit, etc." Quake is no doubt a large
factor in "legitimizing" DJGPP as well.


--brennan
p.s. And no annoying "DOS/4GW..." type startup message. That's my real
reason... ;)
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