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hah! i forgot all about quake c. in 1997 i had a windows nt 4.0 machine (might have been a beta) on my desk and a next turbo mono slab. visual studio wasn't te
by a-dub 1y ago
hah! i forgot all about quake c.
in 1997 i had a windows nt 4.0 machine (might have been a beta) on my desk and a next turbo mono slab. visual studio wasn't terrible for development (and was a great place to get good at c++ and multithreaded), and they managed to bring all the directx stuff over. it was like windows 95, but serious and stable.
it replaced a slackware machine and a sgi indy. the indy was cool because it played a little song when you started it up and it had a novel ui with lots of cool color gradients, but otherwise it was kinda buggy. (the "objectserver" would frequently crash inexplicably. what objects did it serve? i have no idea.)
- geocar 1y agoobjectserver (cadmin) was part of the account management system suite. The desktop would use it to mount disks, route speakers/audio, create/manage users, connect things over the network, and all sorts of other stuff. It would crash because the code was garbage.
- a-dub 1y agoahh man you just reminded me. the cd-roms on those machines didn't have the silly audio cable that pcs of the time did, rather they were just connected via scsi. playing audio cds would rip the redbook cd audio stream in real-time and transfer it over the scsi bus where the host would reconstruct the pcm and write it to the dac. i liked the aesthetics of those machines and the tactile feel of the keyboard.
- ErroneousBosh 1y ago> the indy was cool because it played a little song when you started it up I've half an idea that the "guitar" like sound it played it on was done with Karplus-Strong synthesis on-the-fly, as it was playing out.