[ut2003io] UT2003 64-bit Edition Demo

[Arndt Schoenewald]

Hi Ryan!

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:21:16PM -0500, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
> It took a little more than a week, but yes, we showed UT2003 running as 
> a native 64-bit application on the Hammer during AMD's keynote.
> 
> The game was running on a 64-bit version of SuSE Linux 8.0. We do not 
> have a 64-bit Windows version at this moment, but we will by the time 
> Hammer is officially launched next year.
> 
> I am told that the demo has been moved to AMD's booth now that the 
> keynote is over, so if you happen to be in Vegas, you can play with it 
> yourself for the next day or so.
> 
> (As for "1 developer" ... I did most of the port, but got tons of help 
> from Daniel Vogel here at Epic, Joe Kain at Nvidia, and Elias Slater at 
> AMD. Oh, and Tim Sweeney kicked my ass into shape at least once.  :)  )

Cool stuff! Thanks for the info from "behind the scenes". I must say I
really envy you guys, being able to do cool things like this with such
bleeding egde equipment.

Keep up the good work!

Arndt

-- 
Arndt Schoenewald <abs at ut4l6622p129.mc.schoenewald.de>, Software Developer
Quelltext AG (http://www.quelltext-ag.de), Dortmund, Germany