this is way cool. i for one will be having a good look at this.

in 1997, the computer gaming company id software released a watershed first-person shooter game called quake ii, which went on to sell over one million copies and earn industry accolades as game of the year. later, in december 2001, id software generously made the quake ii 3-d engine available to the public under the gnu general public license ("gpl").

now, in july 2003, vertigo software, inc. is releasing quake ii .net, a port of the c-language based engine to visual c++ with a .net managed heads-up display. we did this to illustrate a point: one can easily port a large amount of c code to c++, and then run the whole application as a managed .net application using the microsoft common language runtime (clr) without noticeable performance delays. once running as a .net managed application, adding new features is easy and fun.

there's even a new quake radar included. this looks like a lot of fun. the whole q2 engine is exposed as a managed class. check it out.