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To: Eric Yang who wrote (6631)	12/5/1997 11:57:00 PM
From: soup	Respond to of 213173

Interview With Gamemeisters Carmack & Hook (Doom, Quake). >Will there be a Mac version of Quake 2? Carmack: Quake 2 is not going to be on MacOS 8, because I'm taking my idealist stand and saying Quake 2 will be available on Rhapsody. Give up the crusty old Mac stuff! I'm going to personally port the stuff to Rhapsody and make it a high-quality implementation for people that want to take a step into the future of Apple. I have no respect for the MacOS, none at all. There's a chance that if Apple doesn't curl up and die and Rhapsody turns out to be everything that it looks like it's going to be, then next year we might jump ship and develop on Rhapsody and port to Windows. There's a lot of good reasons to not have your target platform be your development platform. It keeps you from accidentally doing things that aren't robust and portable. And that was one thing during Doom and Quake, we developed exclusively on NextStep because cross-compiles were ported to DOS. Apple didn't come to you and say "Please put Quake 2 on Rhapsody"? Carmack: I have some issues with Steve Jobs. When he was running Next, I tried so hard to get any publicity I could for Next but, from what I hear third-hand, Steve Jobs just was not interested in any of that. And it's defensible in a workstation company, although it still would have been good free PR that they could have used. But I'm getting the vibe that he's squashing some things that are important at Apple, and he has no justification for doing that in a consumer operating system company. I've never met him--I'd like to some time, but I don't think he's exactly on my side.< ------------------------------- >Hook: Look, this is my view of the people who work at Microsoft. You have a choice. If you're good enough, you have a choice of where you work. You have to realize that what you're doing is bad for the industry. And what you're doing is only good for your personal ego and your personal power trip and your stock options. If you're doing stuff that you don't even agree with and you do it for the money--we have a word for that. Whore.< bootnet.com Hey Steve, Forget Iacocca for CEO. Get these guys.