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Re:John Carmack's Quake Worklogs by hnthrowaway0315 on Saturday October 07, 2023 @08:13PM (#37806708)
Everyone serious about gamedev at his age would be well versed in assembly language and such. It's unthinkable nowadays but normal for graphics programmers in 80s and early-mid 90s.

You can do it too if you follow his steps. I mean by programming Apple ][ and then IBM PC in assembly.

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Re:John Carmack's Quake Worklogs by soks86 on Sunday October 08, 2023 @04:22AM (#37808751)
Quake 3, I do believe, had it's own shader language so the designers could have more control over visual effects.

https://icculus.org/gtkradiant/documentation/Q3AShader_Manua...

The dude was definitely doing stuff no one else had ever done. Then again I have a 90's game dev book that covers ASM as well as manufacturing then programming your own sound card using the parallel port so... you're not wrong.

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Re:John Carmack's Quake Worklogs by hnthrowaway0315 on Sunday October 08, 2023 @08:03AM (#37809736)
Yeah I agree. He is definitely doing new stuffs no one is doing. I don't really think it's realistic for any programmer to set a such high objective.
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