bananaboy

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by bananaboy 4mo ago
Wow this is amazing work!
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by bananaboy 4mo ago
It was based off the q1 engine but heavily modified and took stuff from q2 as well, notably coloured lighting and radiosity lightmaps.
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by bananaboy 4mo ago
I've been using p4 daily for about 21 years at various game studios (with a small break of around 5 years in the middle, where I used it only sporadically) and I think I can count the number of times I've used "reconcile offl
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by bananaboy 4mo ago
Harry was written by an Australia, John Passfield, on his own and published by apogee (I forget but apogee might have provided some art support). John is still making games today!
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by bananaboy 4mo ago
Yes, I played it at the time on both a 286 and a 386. You might be right, although you're describing an algorithm more like what Duke3d used rather than raycasting in that case. I was talking purely about raycasting. So it sounds like
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by bananaboy 4mo ago
A grid of squares makes sense for the target hardware at the time though (286 or better CPU)
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if 7-zip can extract the files from the installer if the installer is not a custom thing.
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
CGA is even more nuanced than just two palettes. You can choose from three palettes, and each can be set to low intensity or high intensity, so you can effectively choose from six. On top of that, the background colour for each palette (col
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
Exactly! Armchair enthusiasts and gamers and such will talk about some game release and its "new engine" but throwing away the entire codebase is rarely a sensible choice financially speaking.
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
Very true!
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
You might be thinking of unchained VGA modes but in unchained modes you want to draw columns because that means you only have to switch which memory plane is active four times instead of every four pixels, ie select plane 0, draw column 0,
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
It does render columns though. Maybe we are talking about different things but the algorithm is essentially: for x = 0 to 319 draw_vertical_line(x, height). The detail there though is whether you cast a ray for each column or do what this d
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
The 286 didnt have an integrated floating point unit so you would have been using a software floating point library that came with your compiler. That would have been very slow indeed!
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
That looks really nice!
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
Exactly. There is a lot of ignorance in this thread. As if the only two roles are engine programmer and gameplay programmer where gameplay is just scripting. Nope. We have engineering teams dedicated to: UI, physics, rendering, streaming, a
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
It barely resembles id tech 3 at this point (I am an engine and pipeline programmer at Sledgehammer Games). There are very very few remnants of it in the codebase. I occasionally do some spelunking to see what’s left and these days it’s jus
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
It’s more nuanced than that. Programmers generally will be paid decently. Gameplay programmers aren’t really the bottom of the pecking order. That dubious honour usually falls to UI engineers. Other folks involved in development who often d
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
If you’re working for one of the big studios making blockbusters the bonuses can still be pretty good.
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What it takes to preserve floppy disks(spectrum.ieee.org)
16 points by bananaboy 5mo ago|0 comments
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
Absolutely! Maybe also Jonathan Kreisberg for guitar.. oh and on piano how could I forget Benny Green! I kind of feel he's not as big as he should be. Another pianist who I really love and took a few lessons with in NYC is Bruce Barth,
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
Depending on your definition, in jazz, I would say there are a few who might become/already are legends: Branford and Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Pat Metheny, John Scofield. May
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
Yeah I know what you mean! I’m so thankful we can still go see Ron Carter and Herbie Hancock.
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
Oh crap I completely missed that! Boo!
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
Sonny Rollins was probably the last great player from the bebop age though who was there at its birth, and probably the last master who played with Charlie Parker too! Ron Carter and Herbie Hancock are still going strong of course, and stil
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
I don't think he's right about this AI slop comment (and I am anti AI slop!). The tom's hardware article might have used AI but it doesn't say that microcode updates fixed it, just that the microcode updates mitigated it
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
Some of these games are absolutely not DOS games though and no amount of semantics can change that. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City requires Windows 98 and DX9 or newer, for example, and it is available here. edit: I see Vice City has been remo
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
Ahah I was just thinking about that tiny web server the other day and even submitted it here, but it didn't get any traction. Back then (and even now) I thought it was very impressive!
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
Yeah I agree too. I never understood the love for the win7 aesthetic!
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by bananaboy 5mo ago
Personally I never think of them being 64kb apart since you can’t access it linearly (without vesa at least and all the stuff I do for VGA is pre-vesa). I think of it as stacked planes.
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VGA memory access is complicated(os2museum.com)
3 points by bananaboy 5mo ago|0 comments

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