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> I was doing the same as you. Gouraud shading, texture-mapping, phong-shading. Is your old code posted anywhere? I think many of us were working from the sam

> I was doing the same as you. Gouraud shading, texture-mapping, phong-shading. Is your old code posted anywhere? I think many of us were working from the same example projects/tutorials. I wouldn't be surprised if the code is incredibly similar. > I had to open your triangle renderer, and there it was - you'd inlined your x86. Being able to inline asm was amazing. The code: https://github.com/bhouston/3DMaskDemo1997/blob/master/src/NCCTRI.CPP#L451 https://github.com/bhouston/3DMaskDemo1997/blob/master/src/N... Being able to access C++ variables on the stack directly from assembler to read and to write to them was so nice. You get the speed benefits without adding significant complexity.

qingcharles 3y ago
I think all of my code is lost now. My artist friend says he has a hard drive which might have the binaries on it. I did find one of my commercial releases on the Internet the other day because it was on a magazine cover disk in 1994 which saved it from obscurity :)
thibaut_barrere 3y ago
I mixed TurboPascal (or C++) with Assembly for critical loops, and it changed everything :-) (high level for overall scripting, low level for rendering triangle loops). I would love to be able to properly decompile my old demos, but it would require a bit of work. For phong rendering, I remember I interpolated the full vector along each line (with an "integer" square root table stored in memory, taking 512k or something), it was fun times :-)