From: frenchc AT cadvision DOT com (Calvin French)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Quake and DJGPP
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 06:57:58 GMT
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"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? :(

- Calvin -