John Carmack Archive - Slashdot Archive

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John Carmack Archive - Slashdot Archive
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July6,2008
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1 Posts 13
1.1 Linux-WhereCarmackGoesNext-Nov1999 . . . . . . . . 13
1.1.1 Re:MoreOpenSourcethanwegivehimcredit . . . 13
1.1.2 Re:Offtherailsatlast! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.2 SGIStepsoutoftheVisualWorkstationMarket-Nov1999 . 14
1.2.1 Re:ChangingMarket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.3 Review:ToyStory2-Nov1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.3.1 Re:Toobad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.4 Games-AnotherSoftwareSpy-Nov1999 . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.4.1 Thestraightanswer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.4.2 Morecomments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.5 Games-Quake1GPL’ed-Dec1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.5.1 Macglquakeshouldbeprettyeasynow . . . . . . . 17
1.5.2 Re:Justspeculation... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1.5.3 Re:Levelmaps*are*GPL’d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1.5.4 Re:Justthoughtthiswasimportanttosay . . . . . . 18
1.6 Games-QuakeGPLReleaseCausingCheating-Dec1999 . 19
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1.6.1 Somemoredepth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.7 Games-ESRonQuake3Troubles-Dec1999 . . . . . . . . 21
1.7.1 Re:hownetrekreallyworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.8 Developers - Tim Sweeney On Programming Languages -
Jan2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.8.1 Re:Whosays,,, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.9 Games-JohnCarmackEnforcingtheGPLonQuakeSource
-Feb2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.9.1 Re:SecureQuake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.10 Games-Dave’Zoid’KirschLeavingidSoftware-Feb2000 23
1.10.1 Re:WhatthehellisIDdoing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.11 Bsd-Squid,FreeBSDRocktheHouseatCachingBake-Off
-Feb2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.11.1 Re:Verytrue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.12 TeraWillBuyCrayResearch-Mar2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.12.1 Supercomputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.13 Games-NewAtariJaguarGameRunning$1,225oneBay-
Mar2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
1.13.1 Ah,theJaguar... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
1.13.2 Re:Ah,theJaguar... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1.13.3 Re:Wayofftopic,butI’mcurioussinceit’s”you” . . 28
1.13.4 Re:Fanatics,zealotry,anddeadplatforms . . . . . . 28
1.14 Features-NVidiaandLinuxTroubles-Mar2000 . . . . . . 29
1.14.1 Nvidia’sdriverswillhavestrongpoints . . . . . . . . 29
1.15 TheDual1GHzPentiumIIIMyth-Apr2000 . . . . . . . . . 30
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1.15.1 Re:Wow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
1.16 Apple-AppleAnnouncesDarwin1.0-Apr2000 . . . . . . . 31
1.16.1 Timetocontribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
1.17 TheEndOfTheRoadForMagneticHardDrives? -Apr2000 33
1.17.1 Re:Performanceissues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
1.18 Games-HasbroAndGame-DesignLawsuits-Apr2000 . . 33
1.18.1 Re:Realitycheck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
1.19 Apple - Mac OS Mach/BSD Kernel Inseparable: No ’lite’
vers-May2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
1.19.1 Re:Remember... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
1.19.2 Re:Idon’tgetit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
1.20 Yro-Copyrant-Jun2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
1.20.1 Re:AboutQuake3’sserialnumbers.... . . . . . . . . . 35
1.21 Developers-ProgrammingOpenGLArticles-Jun2000 . . 35
1.21.1 Re:It’sTooLateForOpenGL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
1.21.2 Re:It’sTooLateForOpenGL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
1.22 Science-InventorBuildingRocketInBackyard-Jun2000 . 37
1.22.1 Aerodynamicallyunstable! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
1.22.2 Re:Whatkindofunstable? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
1.22.3 Re:Whatkindofunstable? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
1.23 Games-JohnCarmackontheX-boxAdvisoryBoard? -Jul
2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
1.23.1 Substantiated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
1.24 Games-NewDoomDetails-Aug2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
1.24.1 Re:Thatwasn’tthecarmackweknow.. . . . . . . . . 42
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1.24.2 Re:Thatwasn’tthecarmackweknow.. . . . . . . . . 44
1.25 Games-JohnCarmackonConsolesvs. PersonalComput-
ers-Aug2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
1.25.1 Linuxgamingmarket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
1.26 Tom’sHardwareLinuxNVidiaBenchmarks-Aug2000 . . . 46
1.26.1 Pageflippingshouldnotbesupported. . . . . . . . 46
1.27 Games-CarmackAboutQ3AonDreamcast-Aug2000 . . 47
1.27.1 Re:ThePS2IsScrewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
1.27.2 Re:Vectorquantizationcompression? . . . . . . . . 48
1.28 Games-SalonontheXBox-Aug2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
1.28.1 Developersallwantaroyalty. NOT. . . . . . . . . . . 48
1.29 Games - VoodooExtreme Interview With John Carmack -
Sep2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
1.29.1 Re:Portals? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
1.30 TheGoodOldDaysof3Dfx-Sep2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
1.30.1 Re:nope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
1.30.2 Re:3DfxvsnVidiavsTheWorld . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
1.30.3 Re:nope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
1.31 Science-CheapLaunchEndsintheDrink-Oct2000 . . . 53
1.31.1 It’sharderthanitsounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
1.32 Games-idonLinux: ”disappointing”and”supportnight-
mar-Dec2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
1.32.1 TheOfficialPosition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
1.33 Games - Linux Gaming: Looking Back and Looking For-
ward-Jan2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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1.33.1 Re:I’vere-installedmyWindowspartition . . . . . . 55
1.34 Features-PrideBeforeTheFall-Jan2001 . . . . . . . . . . 56
1.34.1 Howmuchdoyouvaluethesemethods? . . . . . . . 56
1.35 ABriefHistoryofNVIDIAandSEGA-Feb2001 . . . . . . . 56
1.35.1 Quadraticsurfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
1.35.2 Re:Quadraticsurfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
1.35.3 Re:Quadraticsurfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
1.35.4 Re:Quadraticsurfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
1.36 GeForce3Demoed-RunningDOOM3-Feb2001 . . . . . 58
1.36.1 Re:ShadesofGrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
1.36.2 Re:Competitiveclockspeed???? DidImisssomethin 59
1.36.3 Re:Aquestion,John? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
1.37 Games - Yamauchi Puts the Game Industry In Its Place -
Feb2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
1.37.1 Re:Longoverdue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
1.38 Games-CarmackonD3onLinux,and3DCards-Feb2001 60
1.38.1 Re:QuestiontoJCaboutthevideo . . . . . . . . . . 60
1.39 Science - Telemetry Made Simple: Rocket Phone Home -
Mar2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
1.39.1 Re:Thesignificanceofthis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
1.40 Science-USMilitaryMayResurrectX-33-Apr2001 . . . . 61
1.40.1 Re:AtleasttheJapanesearekeepingDC-Xalive... . . 61
1.40.2 Re:Theclipperwasajoke! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
1.41 RocketsofDoomFromCarmackAndFriends-Apr2001 . . 62
1.41.1 Re:Iwasatthemeeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
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1.41.2 Re:VTOLproblems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
1.41.3 Re:VTOLproblems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
1.41.4 Thanks,slashddot! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
1.42 OntheSubjectofXimianandEazel-May2001 . . . . . . . 64
1.42.1 Re:IfyouwantfinancialinformationabouttheFSF . 64
1.43 Hardware-x86vsPPCLinuxbenchmarks-Jun2001 . . . . 64
1.43.1 Idothiseveryyear... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
1.44 Science-GettingIntoSpace,OneWayOrAnother-Jun2001 65
1.44.1 Re:faa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
1.45 Games-FiveYearsofQuake-Jun2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
1.45.1 Re:WhataboutMarathon? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
1.45.2 History,etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
1.46 Slashback: Shooters-Jun2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
1.46.1 MannedrocketshipsandtheX-Prize . . . . . . . . . 67
1.47 Science-YAPSLP:YetAnotherPrivateSpaceLaunchPlan-
Jun2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
1.47.1 Re:Liquid-fueldrocketsarenochild’splaything . . . 67
1.48 Science-JapanTestsReusableRocket-Jul2001 . . . . . . . 68
1.48.1 Re:carmack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
1.48.2 Re:Justuseaparachute! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
1.49 AnotherSpaceTouristInTraining-Jul2001 . . . . . . . . . 69
1.49.1 Re:TANJ!Itmakesmeangry! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
1.50 Games-ATI&NvidiaDukeItOutInNewGamingWar-Aug
2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
1.50.1 Performancebenefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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1.51 Science-CanadianTeamPlansBalloon-AidedX-PrizeEn-
try-Aug2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
1.51.1 Re:QuestionforCarmack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
1.52 Games-3DFirst-PersonGames,SoFar-Aug2001 . . . . . 72
1.52.1 Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
1.52.2 Re:Doomexpandability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
1.53 Ask-WhatisHappeningwithOpenGL?-Aug2001 . . . . . 73
1.53.1 Thepresentandthefuture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
1.53.2 Re:Idon’tthinkit’sreallybeenestablished... . . . . . 75
1.54 Science-PrivateRocketplaneTestASuccess-Oct2001 . . 75
1.54.1 Re:RocketRacing! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
1.55 Yro-SafewebTurnsOffFreeService-Nov2001 . . . . . . . 76
1.55.1 Re:CIAInvestors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
1.56 Games - Quake 2 Source Code Released Under The GPL -
Dec2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
1.56.1 Thanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
1.57 SGISetsSightsOnTurnaround-Dec2001 . . . . . . . . . . 77
1.57.1 Re:BaliandOdyssey... *sigh* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
1.58 Games-TheRiseAndFallofIonStorm-Jan2002 . . . . . 77
1.58.1 Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
1.58.2 Re:Definitionsofterms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
1.58.3 Re:Definitionsofterms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
1.59 Games-Carmack: LordoftheGames-Feb2002 . . . . . . 80
1.59.1 Afewcorrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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1.60 Science - Maverick Rocketeers Pursue Space Access - May
2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
1.60.1 I’llcommentlater... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
1.60.2 Re:Itwon’tbecheap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
1.60.3 Re:I’llcommentlater... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
1.60.4 Re:RocketGuy! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
1.60.5 Re:Straightfromthehorse’smouth . . . . . . . . . . 84
1.61 Games-CarmackonDoom3VideoCards-May2002 . . . 85
1.61.1 Misrepresented. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
1.61.2 Highendhardwarereasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
1.62 Ask-ImprovAnimationasanArtForm? -Jun2002 . . . . . 87
1.62.1 RealtimeandofflinerenderingAREconverging . . . 87
1.63 Interviews-Ask’RocketGuy’BrianWalker-Jul2002 . . . . 88
1.63.1 Re:ExoticFuels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
1.64 Games-TheTechnologyBehindID’sGames-Aug2002 . . 89
1.64.1 Re:Softdisk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
1.64.2 Originality,creativity,etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
1.65 Games-CarmackExpoundsonDoomIII-Aug2002 . . . . 91
1.65.1 Re:Rendering-twogenerationsfromdone? . . . . . 91
1.65.2 Re:”Non-high-end-comp-owninggeeksrejoice!”? . 92
1.65.3 Re:differentbackendsuselessthen? . . . . . . . . . 92
1.66 Science - Amateur Rocket Launch a Failure; NASA Debuts
Shuttle-cam-Sep2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
1.66.1 Re:amateurrocketetryisirresponsible . . . . . . . . 93
1.66.2 Re:Fuelandfunds? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
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1.66.3 Re:Fuelandfunds? (correction) . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
1.67 Games-Doom3AlphaLeaked-Nov2002 . . . . . . . . . . 93
1.67.1 Damnit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
1.68 Developers-CarmackonNV30vsR300-Jan2003 . . . . . 94
1.68.1 Re:Onceagain... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
1.69 Science-CarmackNeedsRocketFuel-Feb2003 . . . . . . 94
1.69.1 Notexactlygeneralinterestnews,but... . . . . . . . 94
1.69.2 Re:Carmackisfragbait. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
1.70 Science-TheRutanSpaceShipOneRevealed-Apr2003 . . 97
1.70.1 Re:BurtRutanvs. JohnCarmack? . . . . . . . . . . . 97
1.71 NewTrailerforTheHulk-Apr2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
1.71.1 Re:Physics?!? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
1.72 Hardware-FuturemarkRepliestoNvidia’sClaims-May2003 98
1.72.1 Driverstrategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
1.73 Science-SolarPoweredHeliosPlaneDestroyedinTestFlight
-Jun2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
1.73.1 Re:Athoughtortwo... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
1.74 On-lineDocumentaryonMachinima-Jul2003 . . . . . . . 100
1.74.1 InTheWatingLine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
1.75 Science - 11-Pound Model Plane Vs. The Atlantic, Again -
Aug2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
1.75.1 Re:NoneedforGPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
1.76 Science-EuropeanShuttleProgramUpdate-Aug2003 . . 102
1.76.1 Re:stopmakingspaceplanes,dammit . . . . . . . . 102
1.77 Science-XPrizeandJohnCarmack-Aug2003 . . . . . . . 102
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