Doom and Quake Originally Written for the NeXT Platform

According to Romero, the original development environment for both Doom and Quake was NeXTSTEP; in fact, the first four years of id Software’s efforts were on NeXT. He fondly remembers the days of simultaneously building for three different architectures, and side-by-side map editing across the LAN with cofounder John Carmack.

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