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 <P>Another likely change in Quake 2 is a shift from interpreted Quake-C code for game logic to compiled DLLs. Part of the incentive here is performance&mdash;interpretation isn&rsquo;t cheap&mdash;and part is debugging, because the standard debugger can be used with DLLs. The drawback, of course, is portability; Quake-C program files are completely portable to any platform Quake runs on, with no modification or recompilation, but DLLs compiled for Win32 require a real porting effort to run anywhere else. Our thinking here is that there are almost no non-console platforms other than the PC that matter that much anymore, and for those few that do (notably the Mac and Linux), the DLLs can be ported along with the core engine code. It just doesn&rsquo;t make sense for easy portability to tiny markets to impose a significant development and performance cost on the one huge market. Consoles will always require serious porting effort anyway, so going to Win32-specific DLLs for the PC version won&rsquo;t make much difference in the ease of doing console ports.</P>
 <P>Finally, Internet support will improve in Quake 2. Some of the QuakeWorld latency improvements will doubtless be added, but more important, there will be a new interface, especially for monitoring and joining net games, in the form of an HTML page. John has always been interested in moving as much code as possible out of the game core, and letting the browser take care of most of the UI makes it possible to eliminate menuing and such from the Quake 2 engine. Think of being able to browse hundreds of Quake servers from a single Web page (much as you can today with QSpy, but with the advantage of a standard, familiar interface and easy extensibility), and I think you&rsquo;ll see why John considers this the game interface of the future.</P>
 <P>By the way, Quake 2 is currently being developed as a native Win32 app only; no DOS version is planned.</P>
-<H3><A NAME="Heading21"></A><FONT COLOR="#000077">Looking Forward</FONT></H3>
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 <P>In my address to the Computer Game Developer&rsquo;s Conference in 1996, I said that it wasn&rsquo;t a bad time to start up a game company aimed at hardware-only rasterization, and trying to make a game that leapfrogged the competition. It looks like I was probably a year early, because hardware took longer to ship than I expected, although there was a good living to be made writing games that hardware vendors could bundle with their boards. Now, though, it clearly is time. By Christmas 1997, there will be several million fast accelerators out there, and by Christmas 1998, there will be tens of millions. At the same time, vastly more people are getting access to the Internet, and it&rsquo;s from the convergence of these two trends that I think the technology for the next generation of breakthrough real-time games will emerge.
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 <P>John is already working on id&rsquo;s next graphics engine, code-named Trinity and targeted around Christmas of 1998. Trinity is not only a hardware-only engine, its baseline system is a Pentium Pro 200-plus with MMX, 32 MB, and an accelerator capable of at least 50 megapixels and 300 K triangles per second with alpha blending and z-buffering. The goals of Trinity are quite different from those of Quake. Quake&rsquo;s primary technical goals were to do high-quality, well-lit, complex indoor scenes with 6 degrees of freedom, and to support client-server Internet play. That was a good start, but only that. Trinity&rsquo;s goals are to have much less-constrained, better-connected worlds than Quake. Imagine seeing through open landscape from one server to the next, and seeing the action on adjacent servers in detail, in real time, and you&rsquo;ll have an idea of where things are heading in the near future.</P>
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