Bill Gates - DirectX 1995 demonstration Doom video

[HeXploiT]

This is a must see video of Bill Gates toting a shotgun in Doom and talking about directx and windows 95. Someone was really digging deep in the archives.

 

[Jules]

Good stuff, Thanks

 

[Zenoth]

Ah the memories, thanks.

 

[Sam25]

Doom has to totally be one of my favorite games till date! Great video

 

[zerocool84]

Don't interrupt me lol

 

[bunnyfubbles]

lol, his hand was nowhere near the trigger

that's a really awesome slogan they had back then... Microsoft: Who do you want to execute today?

 

[nova2]

ah ;-) i remember watching this years ago, it was on the BOOT magazine CD.

 

[wrangler]

Funny? I don't remember Doom being a DirectX game. ??

 

[PingSpike]

Doom and its sequel were both DOS games. There were windows ports later though.

 

[Maximilian]

"These games are getting really realistic"

Hehe...

 

[Barfo]

Whoever was playing at the start of the demos was terrible.
Nice blast from the past though.

 

[HeXploiT]

Originally posted by: nova2
ah ;-) i remember watching this years ago, it was on the BOOT magazine CD.

I have the last boot magazine before it became maximum pc. Still have a bunch of those disks as well.

 

[JasonCoder]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Doom and its sequel were both DOS games. There were windows ports later though.

Shoot even Quake was a DOS game that later was ported to Win9x by id. Didn't use DirectX though, AFAIK. Double shoot, nothing by id uses DirectX does it? Carmack is an OpenGL purist isn't he? Even Doom3 sound was OpenAL.

 

[HeXploiT]

Originally posted by: JasonCoder

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Doom and its sequel were both DOS games. There were windows ports later though.

Shoot even Quake was a DOS game that later was ported to Win9x by id. Didn't use DirectX though, AFAIK. Double shoot, nothing by id uses DirectX does it? Carmack is an OpenGL purist isn't he? Even Doom3 sound was OpenAL.

I believe doom95 and it's predecessors supported d3d(dx). If I remember correctly many games in those days gave you the choice of glide, openGl and d3d.
I won't swear by it but I think this was the case.

 

[Barfo]

Originally posted by: HeXploiT

Originally posted by: JasonCoder

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Doom and its sequel were both DOS games. There were windows ports later though.

Shoot even Quake was a DOS game that later was ported to Win9x by id. Didn't use DirectX though, AFAIK. Double shoot, nothing by id uses DirectX does it? Carmack is an OpenGL purist isn't he? Even Doom3 sound was OpenAL.

I believe doom95 and it's predecessors supported d3d(dx). If I remember correctly many games in those days gave you the choice of glide, openGl and d3d.
I won't swear by it but I think this was the case.

The glide days were after doom.

 

[HeXploiT]

Originally posted by: barfo

Originally posted by: HeXploiT

Originally posted by: JasonCoder

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Doom and its sequel were both DOS games. There were windows ports later though.

Shoot even Quake was a DOS game that later was ported to Win9x by id. Didn't use DirectX though, AFAIK. Double shoot, nothing by id uses DirectX does it? Carmack is an OpenGL purist isn't he? Even Doom3 sound was OpenAL.

I believe doom95 and it's predecessors supported d3d(dx). If I remember correctly many games in those days gave you the choice of glide, openGl and d3d.
I won't swear by it but I think this was the case.

The glide days were after doom.

Yeah. The first 3dfx card was 1996 and 3dfx was founded in 94.

 

[PingSpike]

Doom wasn't even a 3D game. And yeah, all iD games are OpenGL. They'll use directX for input though I believe.

 

[BladeVenom]

Bil Gates
We think the PC really is the entertainment platform of the future.

They should have remembered that before they came out the XBox.

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

Originally posted by: BladeVenom

Bil Gates
We think the PC really is the entertainment platform of the future.

They should have remembered that before they came out the XBox.

Agreed.

 

[coloumb]

Hrm..must've been after this video [demonstration of Windows Crashing]:

Windows 95 Demo BSOD

 

[Zenoth]

Originally posted by: coloumb
Hrm..must've been after this video [demonstration of Windows Crashing]:

Windows 95 Demo BSOD

I wonder (and I wouldn't know, so I'm asking), did they (Microsoft, or Bill Gates himself) ever previewed any other Windows versions live to some crow of journalists or industry/companies/market analysts after that Windows 95 BSOD? I mean I know it's Microsoft and all that goes with it, it's funny and all, at least in appearance, but I bet that guy pissed in his pants and was already seeing himself living in a tent and asking for charity in a matter of days.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: wrangler
Funny? I don't remember Doom being a DirectX game. ??

Doom95 used DirectInput probably, but nothing as far as the rendering engine was any different from the DOS version AFAIK.

 

[Pelu]

lol... this is so old

 

[Pelu]

by the way, the windows 95 crash was awesome... OOWW!!!

 

[JasonCoder]

Originally posted by: Zenoth

Originally posted by: coloumb
Hrm..must've been after this video [demonstration of Windows Crashing]:

Windows 95 Demo BSOD

I wonder (and I wouldn't know, so I'm asking), did they (Microsoft, or Bill Gates himself) ever previewed any other Windows versions live to some crow of journalists or industry/companies/market analysts after that Windows 95 BSOD? I mean I know it's Microsoft and all that goes with it, it's funny and all, at least in appearance, but I bet that guy pissed in his pants and was already seeing himself living in a tent and asking for charity in a matter of days.

If anything msft has gotten more transparent. I've been to major demos with early alpha builds of windows. People on the msft campus dogfood everything from windows to the simplest dev tool.