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That's rather cool, even if John is very tight-lipped about his current endeavours. :)

Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

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Great article, thank you for thinking of us! A few comments.

 

JC (jesus christ with demons?!)

[...[When we released our source code to the builder[...]

 

Lets set aside the obvious conotation to the elicit, "Builder". Haha... this made me think of TDM in so many ways. From the time I was young and built a treehouse with my friends and painted "Tree House Builders" on the side of it like we were going to get any business!?!

 

JC

Wolfenstein was a 286 game that used extended memory, the old EMS/XMS different ways that we were extending past there. And one of the important decisions for Doom was, could we make it a 386-only game? And it was probably the first significant game title to use a 386 DOS extender and be written in 32-bit protected mode. That was something where I could have written the same thing still within the context of 286, and maybe a 286 person could have played it in a small window chugging along at 10 frames per second.

 

This reminds me of our first desktop computer. My uncle was a CS major at IU and was really keen to it and got his nephew(s) (just me at the time) A z80 processor with ... wait for it ... a math co-processor! Yeah baby!! Wow... we could run stuff SO fast!?! Haha compared to these days. Its so ...unreal, literally. I did all my school papers, previously, in Wordstar on an Osbourne 1 and later got an "upgrade" to an Osbourne Vixen. Man, those where the days. Monocromatic screen, whether green or orange, and dual... that's right, DUAL 5 1/4" floppys. Those where the days. Mbasic on a suitcase.

 

JC

The 360 and PS3 are far from tapped out in terms of what a developer could do with them, but the whole world’s gonna move over towards next-gen and high-end PCs and all these other things. Part of me still frets a little bit about that, where just as you fully understand a previous generation, you have to put it away to kind of surf forward on the tidal wave of technology that’s always moving. That’s something that we’ve struggled with in every generation. And now I at least know enough to recognize that some of my internal feelings or fondness for technology that I understand or have done various things with usually has to be put aside. Because data has shown over the decades that that’s usually not as important as you think it is.

 

Clearly, that's the dollar signs talking there.

 

Great article, thanks again! :)

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