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Re:Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser on Saturday July 18, 2026 @01:00PM (#48959867)
This is awesome! Great work! I love playing around with these older game engines that have source available, its really neat to explore how they work, and fiddle around with it.

If you haven’t already, Fabien’s write ups of the various ID engines are a joy to read: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/index.php

Shameless plug: I also like to play around with old game engines: https://github.com/bishopdynamics/Continuum

Show HN: Half-Life 1, without loading screens

Posted by bishopdynamics on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:44PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/bishopdynamics/Continuum

During the ~48hrs that I had access to Fable 5, I decided to have fun with the Xash3D-FWGS engine for Half-Life 1, starting with a "level streaming" system (pre-load the whole campaign, its only ~500MB anyay).After that was working, I succumbed to the call of feature creep and added a projected flashlight, and some ambient occlusion, and some hacky entity shadows.Finally, I redid the menu...

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Re:Can You Build a CPU? on Friday October 02, 2020 @03:28PM (#24666203)
If you're looking to get a much better understanding of /why/ things work, you should check out Ben Eater's videos on YT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyznrdDSSGM&list=PLowKtXNTBy...