[SunRescue] [OT]: NeXTStep on SPARC/PA RISC

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Apr 17 14:53:32 CDT 2001


On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:37:26PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> That looks like what you want.  As an interesting bit of trivia, my
> understanding is that Quake was originally written on NS running on
> PA-Risc, and then only when it was near done, it was ported to DOS.  The
> original editors for the game were all for NS, that I remeber.  I'd love
> to get NextStep on risc machine. 

It was actually NS on black (NeXT) hardware, and you're thinking of
DOOM.. Quake (at least most of it) was written on Win32, although I think
a lot of the level design was done on black hardware.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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