11 Oct
2016
11 Oct
'16
10:41 a.m.
On Oct 11, 2016, at 09:24, Josh Dersch <derschjo at
gmail.com> wrote:
Yep. In '93 (IIRC), I bought the last of the new NeXT magneto-optical cartridge that
Canon had and was selling them via Usenet. One of the buyers was some guy named John
Carmack from some company called Id Software. He paid by check and, trying to decide
whether to wait for the check to clear, I asked some co-workers also from Dallas if they
had heard of him or the company (they hadn't).
As far as Doom, not long after I became a Sun employee in Mountain View in '94-95, we
played Doom Arena, a networked, multiplayer version of Doom. It saturated the network, so
could only be played after business hours. It ran on SPARCstations under Solaris.
alan
On 10/11/16 9:06 AM, Charles Anthony wrote:
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 8:44 AM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com>
wrote:
As I understand it, the SGIs were the development platform for DOOM, and
the PC version is the 'port'.
That's incorrect -- DOOM was developed
on NeXT hardware.
DOS PC: Doom
Last comment from me...
I played SGI Doom the other day for the first time. There are always new
discoveries, I did not even know this port existed.
- Josh
-- Charles