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by imtringued11 hours ago |
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upvoteby flohofwoe11 hours ago|
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My point is that C's popularity quickly outgrew the popularity of UNIX, especially during most of the 1990s before Linux made UNIX accessible to us "PC peasants". Most 1990s PC games were written in C, and C was also the dominant high level language on 16/32 bitters like the Amiga or Atari ST.
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upvoteby pjmlp9 hours ago|
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Nope, they were mostly written in Assembly.

On the consoles it took until PlayStation for C to take off among game devs.

Additionally many Amiga games used Blitz BASIC and AMOS.

Anyone involved in the Demoscene early days would be 100% Assembly as well.

On PC, it required until Watcom with its great MS-DOS extender for devs to finally move away from Assembly in mass.

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upvoteby aleph_minus_one21 minutes ago|
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> Nope, they were mostly written in Assembly.

It depends: for the classic 8 bit home computers, games were mostly written in assembly. Later DOS games were commonly either written in Pascal or C, but quite a bit off Assembler code was often used for the more performance-critical code sections.

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upvoteby flohofwoe8 hours ago|
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> Nope, they were mostly written in Assembly.

I was there, Gandalf ;)

(and note how I specifically wrote "dominant high level language", not "dominant language", since assembly coding was indeed very relevant on those machines, for UI apps 100% assembly was quite rare though, and hybrid C/ASM seems to have been more common).

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upvoteby pjmlp5 hours ago|
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Dominant in which part of the planet?

In my part of the Iberian Penisula it was Turbo Pascal on PC and AMOS/Blitz Basic on Amiga.

With lots of inline Assembly anyway.

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upvoteby jstimpfle3 hours ago|
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If id Software is any indication, apparently they wrote their games in C since their inception in 1990 with Commander Keen.
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