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There's a story in Masters of Doom where Carmack and Romero do just that. If I recall correctly, they would take company (Softdisk I believe) computers at night
by JohnDotAwesome 10y ago
There's a story in Masters of Doom where Carmack and Romero do just that. If I recall correctly, they would take company (Softdisk I believe) computers at night because they were more powerful than their home computers, and use them to develop their own games. I think they even worked on their own games on company time. I might be getting the details wrong on that one, but sounds like Carmack dgaf (or just doesn't think about how these things could potentially be wrong/misaligned).
- jfolkins 10y agoLOVE THIS BOOK! And you are correct, they indeed "borrowed" the machines.
- Mizza 10y agoCarmack is way more of a badass punk than his demeanor makes him out to be. When he was 14, he got sentenced to a year in juvie for stealing his school's Apple IIs. He broke in using thermite. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack#Early_life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack#Early_life
- cma 10y agoI believe they settled it by paying some royalties on Commander Keen. A lot of times Carmack just wants to get shit done. At Oculus he has worked on both the Minecraft code and the Netflix code both for VR clients, both (I believe, I know for sure for Minecraft at least from some talks) with MS and Netflix retaining full ownership of the code. Maybe they have some "off the record" agreements to avoid anti-trust--Minecraft still hasn't officially come to Vive.
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- Bamafan 10y agoThey also made a number of "free" games that were published by SoftDisk. This was all pre-modern software era though. If that happened today, it would end up very similarly to how the Occulus case ended up.