Quake 3 Arena in managed C++
Greg Dolley has posted in his blog about his port of Quake 3 Arena to managed C++. Although he did “only” port it to managed C++ (and not C#) is it freaking awesome and a lot of work:
Furthermore, changing the settings to compile everything as C++, then fixing 3,000 compile errors, is also not, I repeat not, a .NET port. That is a native C++ port of Quake III to a different compiler. Lastly, taking the former C++ build I just mentioned, turning on the “/clr” Visual Studio option, fixing 28,000 compile errors with 4,000 warnings, patching all managed to native calls such that the first run doesn’t “blue-screen” your machine, and finally doing everything else necessary to be able to view the EXE with its supporting DLL’s under ILDASM (the .NET CLR disassembler), now THAT is a .NET port!
Published on Jan 24th, 2008 —
Tags: Games, Managed C++, Quake 3 Arena 
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