When did the game industry make the jump to higher level languages? I figured it was around the time of the 16-bit era, when consoles were equipped with m68k's and could actually handle the power. More specifically, what were the first console games to be written in C?
What were the first video games written in C?
Cameron White
Gavin Miller
It's hard to tell exactly what the first game written in C was. Although the m68K did have C capabilities, just shoddy ones. Sonic Spinball, for instance, was written in C.
Jonathan Perry
>I figured it was around the time of the 16-bit era
This guy has source for some of the commercial games he worked on for the genesis and its all assembly
Nicholas Thompson
The thing about C is that you usually need Assembly to take advantage of processor-specific speed hacks.
Brandon Parker
>Although the m68K did have C capabilities
wtf am i reading?
Alexander Sullivan
Michael Walker
PC games, probably in the late 80s
Console games, probably in the mid 90s
Liam Peterson
What? I used to program TI calculators with m68k processors. I used C.
Robert Powell
Did you have enable C capability in order to do so? Unlock the achievement as it were?
Jose Taylor
....no...
Hudson Brown
Apparently you are a magician.
Brandon Perez
What the hell are you talking about? As long as something has a C compiler, you can program in C for that thing.
Jaxson Davis
I really have no idea why you think a C compiler targeting an m68k is outlandish: en.wikipedia.org
Eli Martin
Assembler mainly. 68k is very assembler friendly.
Luis Morris
I was making fun of the jackass that said 68k has C capabilities, then you dumbasses for not catching it.
Samuel Wilson
You know what the fuck I meant. It's been a long night.
Nathaniel Howard
>>I was making fun of the jackass that said 68k has C capabilities,
But thats true.
Are you not aware that there have existed microprocessors for which C is completely inappropriate?
William Garcia
>I've moved the goalpost
>Do I still look foolish?
Joseph Adams
Will you both stop talking shit, my thread is about historical proof of C in game development. Not arguing about m68k C capabilities.
Jeremiah Collins
What are you even talking about? You're the one who's acting like pointing out that m68k processors are regularly programmed using C is outlandish.
Do you know who writes C code for z80s? Fucking nobody, that's who. The processor wasn't designed with C in mind and it shows. The user who said the m68k has "C capabilities" plainly mean that the processor was designed with compiled code in mind and has mature C tooling targeting it.
Dominic Rogers
Your thread is shit, and you should feel like shit for making it.
Connor Brooks
you're just sore because you've made a fool of yourself in OPs thread and want somebody to blame but yourself.
Lucas Bell
First video games written in C? C's lineage is intrinsically tied to Unix, so the various text mode console games that grew up around unix are likely candidates.
High level languages? Games in basic and pascal with assembler routines were very common in the 8 bit era.
Ethan Gomez
Right, but I don't mean text based or MUD games, I'm talking real commercial games like StarFox and Donkey Kong Country that would be close to impossible to develop in assembly.
Dominic Sullivan
C was phased out after dreamcast and that Gen. Hydro thunder was done in c. Its a pretty crazy story how they would control states being it wasn't oop.
Zachary Reyes
You've never herd of star ocean then. Expansion chips and sony's dac was revolutionary. If you slapped enough memory to the sucker it could do anything because with the SNES the cartridge did most the work
Mason Wright
>close to impossible to develop in assembly
ha but they were :^)
Easton Davis
>"Sawyer wrote 99% of the code for RollerCoaster Tycoon in x86 assembly language, with the remaining one percent written in C.[2]"
Tyler Nelson
What nonsense is this?
AmigaOS was written in C, so were the UNICES that ran on 68k.
Charles Green
Consoles stuck to assembly for quite a while, but around the late 80s or early 90s they would've gone to C, or just C++, at least for IBM compatibles.
William Morales
>StarFox and Donkey Kong Country that would be close to impossible to develop in assembly.
Why? Elite was made in assembly (obviously) and its the same graphics as StarFox just hollow rather than filled meshes, and that Traverler's Tales guy on Youtube talks a lot about the assembly they used in Sonic 3d so there's Donkey Kong.