



Taylor Blues", was named after him by Robert Prince. One of the musical themes in Doom II, "The Dave D. On Quake, he wrote the original sound engine, the DOS TCP/IP network library, and added VESA 2.0 support. He also considers himself to have been the "spackle coder" on Doom, for adding things such as the status bar, sound library integration, the automap, level transitions, cheat codes, and the network chat system. He created ports of both games to IRIX, AIX, Solaris and Linux, and helped program the Atari Jaguar ports of Doom and Wolfenstein 3D. Taylor worked for id Software between 19, and was during the time involved with the development of Doom and Quake. Prior to working for id, he was a member of The Kernel Group, which worked on Unix kernel debugging. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1993. Taylor is an American game programmer, best known as a former id Software employee and noted for his work promoting Linux gaming.
