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by kalleboo 732 days ago
Wasn't that even worse before? Games like Warcraft and Doom played across Intel x86, Motorola 680x0 and PowerPC
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nottorp 731 days ago
Did Warcraft 1 and Doom have cross platform multiplayer back then?
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kalleboo 731 days ago
I don't know about WC1/Doom1 but WC2/Doom 2 on the Mac also supported IPX to play against PCs in addition to the native AppleTalk support they had. The only time I ever saw IPX on a Mac.
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hnthrowaway0328 732 days ago
Fun time. Developers essentially have to dig very low into the stack and deal with multiple architectures. The way to build great programmers.
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mobiuscog 732 days ago
They didn't have to deal with agile/scrum though. Clearly not real programmers ;)
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