For any C++ programmer, the integrated development environment or IDE is the tool they spend most of their time using. And while commercial tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio are popular with commercial development houses, the problem is that they are frequently limited to a single platform. …read more »
Hands up who remembers Doom? Good. Remember the splash it made when it came out – the most realistic 3D of its day, high performance even right down to 286s, Doom became, for several years, the de facto standard of what a PC was – if it could run Doom, it was a PC.
Few end users noticed the “DOS extender” screen at the beginning of Doom, however. But those in the industry did, and other games companies began to take note – behind the scenes at iD software, they were using a pretty nifty set of development tools. That tool set was Open Watcom. …read more »
