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Minor (very minor) quibble: You said "since Wolf3D"; but "since Commander Keen" would be more accurate. Keen was possible due to a stroke of genius, letting hi
by palish 15y ago
Minor (very minor) quibble: You said "since Wolf3D"; but "since Commander Keen" would be more accurate.
Keen was possible due to a stroke of genius, letting him trick the monitor itself into becoming part of his "adaptive tile refresh" system. I'm a little hazy on the details, but... it's just a cool, little-known fact that Carmack made the very first "Mario-style" side scroller for the PC -- a feat that no one else managed to pull off.
- 5hoom 15y agoMinor quibble accepted! It's easy to forget how crap PC graphics were at the time of Commander Keen. It was the first PC platform game I can remember that wasn't an obviously-CGA sprite flickerathon :)