Id Tech - Doom Engine

Doom Engine

Sometimes known as id Tech 1 (Not to be confused with the Quake engine, which can also be referred to as id Tech 1), is the game engine that powers the id Software games Doom and Doom II. It was created by John Carmack, with auxiliary functions written by Mike Abrash, John Romero, Dave Taylor and Paul Radek. Originally developed on NeXT computers, it was ported to MS-DOS for Doom's initial release and was later ported to several game consoles and operating systems.

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