On: Quake related work logs (1996)

[hnthrowaway0315]

Everyone serious about gamedev at his age would be well versed in assembly language and such. It's unthinkable nowadays but normal for graphics programmers in 80s and early-mid 90s.

You can do it too if you follow his steps. I mean by programming Apple ][ and then IBM PC in assembly.

[soks86 → hnthrowaway0315]

Quake 3, I do believe, had it's own shader language so the designers could have more control over visual effects.

https://icculus.org/gtkradiant/documentation/Q3AShader_Manua...

The dude was definitely doing stuff no one else had ever done. Then again I have a 90's game dev book that covers ASM as well as manufacturing then programming your own sound card using the parallel port so... you're not wrong.

[hnthrowaway0315 → soks86]

Yeah I agree. He is definitely doing new stuffs no one is doing. I don't really think it's realistic for any programmer to set a such high objective.