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DOOM 3DO Source Released On Github
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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FTA:
Firstly, this was the product of ten intense weeks of work due to the fact that I was misled about the state of the port when I was offered the project. I was told that there was a version in existance with new levels, weapons and features and it only needed "polishing" and optimization to hit the market. After numerous requests for this version, I found out that there was no such thing and that Art Data Interactive was under the false impression that all anyone needed to do to port a game from one platform to another was just to compile the code and adding weapons was as simple as dropping in the art.
I'm starting to think that as a developer the automatic assumption should be that you are being hired for a death march unless there is strong evidence to the contrary.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Someone cared enough to post the source, with a writeup about their experience with it, someone cared enough to submit it, someone cared enough to approve it, at the very least I cared enough to read it and even browse the source a bit. At least one more of the over 7 billion people on the planet will probably care, as well.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Yea, cause that is totally how unions work.
Reply modeled after real world examples, including Teachers Unions.
If you don't think any group with power over workers prevents "troublesome" workers from finding work, you are simply naive.
nice anti-workers rhetoric
What could be more pro-worker than protecting workers from predation? Being anti-union is inherantly being for the workers, not the overseers.
I forgot to add the third aspect of "after union" - you make 20% less pay and your union leader lives in a mansion.
are you just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire?
A) Never be ashamed at having a strong opinion.
B) Not even close to a millionaire, temporary or otherwise. I work for a living thank you very much.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
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.