Comment by djdelorie

3 months ago

Back then, DJGPP was a much bigger group, and most of the Quake kudos go to Charles Sandmann, author of cwsdpmi, who worked directly with Id to help them optimize their code for our environment.

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thatjoeoverthr  3 months ago

Thank you for this work. It was my first C compiler in 1998. Y'all helped me on the mailing list and you even replied to my e-mails! I was 11 and this was insane to me.

  • djdelorie  3 months ago

    You're welcome!

    • jhgb  3 months ago

      I too need to thank you for the very first C compiler I ever had access to in 1999, after 10 years of having a book on C in my possession that I couldn't use until then.

skrebbel  3 months ago

Omg I’m totally starstruck now!

Purely out of curiosity, was that all a volunteer open source effort or was the entire DJGPP group acting as a consulting organization?

  • djdelorie  3 months ago

    The DJGPP project and its contributors were 100% volunteer. I'm sure some of the contributors took advantage of their involvement to obtain consulting gigs on the side (I did ;) but DJGPP itself didn't involve any. The Quake work was a swap; we helped them with optimizing, and they helped us with near pointers. Win-win!

xtracto  3 months ago

Just passing by to thank you. As many others have mentioned, DJGPP was pivotal for my life. I compiled my first C/Allegro games in DJGPP back in the mid/late 90s.

And here you are!!