From: Tudor <tudor AT cam DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Quake and DJGPP
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 22:40:30 -0400
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> >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.
I don't want to bug in but, to me, the quake sources seem _very_
DJGPP-ish. They even compile (to a certain point, I do't have the
makefile for dos). I guess the main reason they chose DJGPP was
portability since, AFAIK, quake was not developed in dos (NextStep, SGI
?)
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