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NeXT was their existing workflow, they built the content on tools running on NeXT and then targeted DOS.
by fulafel 4y ago
NeXT was their existing workflow, they built the content on tools running on NeXT and then targeted DOS.
- bluedino 4y agoSure, but NeXT was basically dead by that time and there wasn't any way they could develop a modern (at the time) game on it (say Quake III). And even though they ran the level editor, I doubt whatever the top of the line NeXT machine was at the time could even run Quake 1 at a decent framerate.
- fulafel 4y agoYep, NeXT was long in the tooth, but they could have moved the content tools and cross build env to another other *ix platform. (And even for running the game .. Q3 was OpenGL, and PC gaming GPUs had yet to overtake the workstation 3D hardware).
- bluedino 4y agoIf they weren't terrible they might have. You've probably read this before: https://rmitz.org/carmack.on.operating.systems.html https://rmitz.org/carmack.on.operating.systems.html