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Fun fact, while Trower was the manager who got Windows moving, it was Gabe Newell who served as the lead developer of Windows versions 1, 2, and 3. Win95 was th
by BirAdam 6mo ago
Fun fact, while Trower was the manager who got Windows moving, it was Gabe Newell who served as the lead developer of Windows versions 1, 2, and 3. Win95 was the first version he wasn’t really involved with. By that time, he was working on porting Doom to Windows.
- blisscast 6mo agoHe's an awesome guy!
- nik282000 6mo agoIf you play any Valve games with commentary he prefaces them with an invitation to email him directly with comments or questions. He's said that he doesn't have time to answer every one but he tries to read them all. For a multi-yacht owning, industry driving billionaire, he does seem pretty cool.
- keepamovin 6mo agoI love this kind of lore. Thanks for enhancing
- NikolaNovak 6mo agoSorry, are we saying Valve Gabe Newell? That's blowing my mind from both timeline and area perspective.
- ndisn 6mo agoHe notably worked at Microsoft before founding Valve.
- bombcar 6mo agoI believe he’s confirmed that his time at Microsoft both gave him the money and the desire to make Valve and Steam.
- p_l 6mo agoThe desire to switch to games was, reputedly, seeing Doom outsell Windows 3.x with none of the marketing budget (with Windows having huge one). Then not getting enough support in trying to drum up better support for gaming at Microsoft, IIRC
- bombcar 6mo agoGabe and Carmack are probably above Amelio and below Jobs and Gates in impact on the world - but probably above them all in impact when measured on a “desired” axis - people sought out Doom in a way that even the iPhone wasn’t.
- mikestew 6mo agoYup, where do you think he got the money to start Valve? :-)
- Folcon 6mo agoYep, I still do love this little factoid
- atombender 6mo agoIt's a fact, though, not a factoid.
- Folcon 6mo agoHuh, valid correction, thank you, never realised that those weren't synonyms
- jnpnj 6mo agoYeah, I don't know why this never popped on my radar. I read Abrash books long ago, MS employees blog too, its history around the creation of UIs (xerox/apple and all that), the OS/2 era .. and I never saw his name (or maybe selective vision tricked me). Very fun fact
- anthk 6mo agoHalf Life 3.11 confirmed.