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Issue 277

Randal Linden on revisiting his astonishing SNES port of Doom and making it even better

When it comes to technical wizardry, Randal Linden is something of an expert. From Dragon's Lair on the Amiga to Doom on the SNES, Randal has become synonymous with 'impossible ports'.

The SNES version of Doom is arguably one of his most impressive achievements and it all started off when Sculptured Software was invited to Nintendo's Redmond office where he witnessed an early prototype of Star Fox. “It got a standing ovation from the crowd,” recalls Randal, “it was all high-end developers there.”

Sculptured Software was keen to create a 3D dirt bike game using the new Super FX chip but didn't have a suitable development system. After speaking to John Morgan, Randal was roped in as John knew he had a suitable development system. “I got pulled into the project and I had this development system that ran on the Amiga, believe it or not,” Randal tells us. “The development system is an assembler, linker and source-level debugger. And I came up with this idea that we called the Romulator.”

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