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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 optimi

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.

skrebbel 11mo 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 11mo 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!
thatjoeoverthr 11mo 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 11mo ago
  You're welcome!
  - jhgb 11mo 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.
xtracto 11mo 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!!
- hhhAndrew 11mo ago
  +1 DJGPP/Allegro key life experience on my parents Windows machine, thankyou!