Wolfenstein's original rendering engine as 450 line shader with no external data

Re:Wolfenstein's original rendering engine as 450 line shade... by nimbius on Monday February 26, 2018 @10:44AM (#16466041)

This game was responsible for two amazing moments in my childhood.

1. Realizing I wanted to be a computer programmer

2. My parents being confronted by school administrators because I was whistling Horst Wessel Lied, or as i called it "the cool Wolfenstein song." at school frequently.

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Re:Wolfenstein's original rendering engine as 450 line shade... by Mantipath on Monday February 26, 2018 @04:14PM (#16469021)

I'm trying to figure out how that second point worked. Is it that you were whistling too often and it would have been a problem even if you were going with, say, the Andy Griffith theme, or did you both whistle so well and have school administrators so educated that they identified that you were whistling Nazi propaganda?

It's not that characteristic a tune.

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Re:Wolfenstein's original rendering engine as 450 line shade... by boomlinde on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @05:15AM (#16472315)

It was the national anthem of Nazi Germany. If you have a even a passing interest in WWII, which I hope at least some teachers would, it should be familiar.

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Re:Wolfenstein's original rendering engine as 450 line shade... by se30b on Monday February 26, 2018 @12:18PM (#16466960)

That is really, really funny.

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