Message-ID: <33F5C773.7FCD@no.spam.mcs.nl> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 17:29:55 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra Reply-To: peter AT mcs DOT nl Organization: Zembla MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJGPP mailing list Subject: Re: Quake II??? References: <5sha8f$hmf AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca> <33ec8f42 DOT 1656563 AT news DOT btinternet DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk 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. -- ----------------------------------- Peter Zijlstra aka. The Mage / ZeMBLA - Main Coder E-Mail: peter at mcs dot nl -----------------------------------