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Re:Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of ... by WalterBright on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:17AM (#12113972)
People were amazed at it running on the PC, and running very well.
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Re:Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of ... by coldtea on Monday July 18, 2016 @06:37AM (#12114231)
Yes, but the appeareance of Doom on PC is not because PC was a "tinkerer's platform" as the argument in the parent post goes.

The tinkering part leading to the creation of Doom was done on NeXT.

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Re:Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of ... by WalterBright on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:03AM (#12114335)
Doom ran under a 32 bit DOS extender, which was created by tinkerers, not Microsoft.
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Re:Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of ... by WalterBright on Monday July 18, 2016 @06:11AM (#12114149)
BTW, I would also build the software on a better machine that had memory protection, get it all working correctly, then port it to DOS. That would greatly cut down on the debugging time.
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