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DOOM 3DO Source Released On Github

Posted by timothy on from the you-are-doomed dept.

New submitter burgerbecky writes The port that was as hellish as the game world itself, DOOM for the 3DO's source code has been released on github. The original programmer outlined the corners cut and why.

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  1. Re:HP-UX by Guy+Harris · · Score: 4, Informative

    I had some opportunity to work with HP-UX (built GnuMake on it for a in-company build/QA system), it was always an interesting and very different beast. Is it still around in any form?

    Yes.

  2. Re:Can't blame him/her by haruchai · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're correct - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

    S/he was born William Salvador Heineman

    --
    Pain is merely failure leaving the body
  3. Re:My hat is off to you, sir! by burgerbecky · · Score: 5, Informative

    The ARM linker for the 3DO will link each and every function in the source file if only one function in a file was used. It was common practice in the 80s and 90s to write library code with each function in its own source file to get around the problem of accidental code bloat. Look to the early GNU stdlib implementation and you'll notice they did the same thing. Modern linkers with Link Time Code Generation don't suffer from this issue since they will remove every piece of dead or unused code wherever it is, which is why Burgerlib 5 is in a lot fewer source files than Burgerlib 1, 2 or 3.