Posted by Kukuman on 1999-06-18
"woofcow" wrote: >hi. i am already a c++ programmer, but i have taught myself. i am reasonably >confident, but dont know enough about the different compilers to know which >one to buy. i want to develop 1st person games (doom, wolf3d etc) but i dont >know whether i should get a dos 32 bit compiler (eg watcom) or a windows one >(ms vc++). is it possible to do 1st persons etc in vc++? what were games >like quake and half life written in? any advice would be gratefully >accepted. Quake was written in C++ and compiled in DJGPP, a free C/C++ compiler based on gcc. Half-Life was based on the Quake2 engine(however not so much as SiN), and therefore was written in C++. Half-Life was compiled in Visual C++, most likely. It all depends on what you want to do. If you're only reasonably confident, I suggest you go with making DOS games, because you don't have to deal with the overhead of writing Windows applications. -- Kukuman - Sysop of The Mental House BBS (541) 779-1015 http://www.darktech.org/mhbbs/ "Are you SURE you want a monitor with your computer?"
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