Comments on: Burgertime 7/12/2015 aka DooM 3DO port

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 24 May 2016 01:39:30 +0000

In reply to Rugxulo. In the video, Rebecca said that when she contacted iD on behalf of the publisher she was sent 2 CD-ROMs one was the pc source, and the other was the Jaguar port. I would imagine that at least for testing they would crosscompile from the next as it had a 68000 cpu as well

By: Rugxulo

Rugxulo — Mon, 23 May 2016 23:43:10 +0000

I don’t know if the Jag port was truly the “reference”, but I think it was Carmack’s favorite. (Disclaimer: I never played it although I still have a Jaguar.) Better graphics, ran consistently at 30fps (although he later said he would like to have had more time to improve that even further). No music except between levels. Supposed to be a very good port. The compiler was lost, though, but (IIRC) I think they did donate the sources of that port to one latter-day developer (many years later), Carl Forhan.

By: rasz_pl

rasz_pl — Sat, 21 May 2016 18:24:17 +0000

Rebecca was also responsible for a trainwrecks of SNES and Apple 2gs Wolfenstein 3D ports aka why Carmack had to drop everything in the middle of Doom development and learn 816 assembly quick.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/snes/wolfenstein-3d_/trivia
http://apple2history.org/spotlight/the-long-strange-saga-of-wolfenstein-3d-on-the-apple-iigs/