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From: "Michael Hough" <mhough@stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: a better idea than 'Black Magic'
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 02:35:55 -0800
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[an enthusiastic and only slightly naive request deleted]

>Hey there,
>
>
>This is a joke right?  First off, I don't ever recall reading that Ridge
>Racer was written using the
>Yaroze library in any magazine.  Yes, it does fit into main memory and you
>can pop in a Audio CD
>and play music while playing the game ( something you can't do with the
>Yaroze libs).  Yes, it
>would be cool to get the source but come on..it's like Sega releasing the
>source for Daytona USA,
>it's never going to happen.  As for Wolfenstein ( not Doom ), Abuse, and
>Descent these are all
>computer games.  I don't ever recall any console company releasing their
>source code ever.
>Also I don't think any Japanese game company would release their source
>code...........
>
>Latah...
>
>
>George@SCEE


Actually, the Doom source is out there--I've found these at
videogamedesign.com (though I personally haven't verified that they contain
what they say they do, id's claimed to have released the code, and this was
the first place I could find it; the readme file is very convincingly
doomish).

(linux, ~350k)
http://videogamedesign.com/code/games/doomsrc.zip
(and a dos port thereof, same caveat, ~450k)
http://videogamedesign.com/code/games/dosdoom046-src.zip

And why not release it?  It's a generation old, just as (presumably) Ridge
Racer is.  Even Netscape is releasing source nowadays.

And console game companies (in the days before Yaroze) haven't had anybody
but other professionals to release source to.  Now, perhaps, it's
different--though I sense conservative movements seeking the absence of
change.  There might also be, for id, a greater coolness-to-effort return
releasing Doom to the entire world, than a console company releasing to us.
Hmm.

food, thinking:

mike