John Carmack to port Rage over to Android operating system

By Edwin Kee on 10/29/2010 10:24 PDT

The name John Carmack is often mentioned in whispers of reverence amongst gamers, especially since we’re talking about the co-founder of id Software as well as lead programmer of superb genre-defining games such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake. Well, John recently tweeted that he is looking to port Rage over to Android, which means it will no longer be an iPhone 4 exclusive. On the Apple handset, the graphics were nothing short of incredible (what else did you expect from John – to cut corners?), so it is nice to know Android handsets do have the processing muscle to handle such a graphically complex game as well.

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Android Android is mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license.

iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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