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Re: Doom
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Sat, 19 November 2005 12:02
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Shraka wrote on Tue, 08 November 2005 16:36 | Err, as far as I knew Carmack INVTENTED the virtual memory system that Doom used. Without which, Doom would have had to use Wolf 3D style graphics.
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Doom allocates a single block of memory from the operating system and then manages that memory itself using what they call "zone memory allocation". Nothing particularly tricky about it. Basically a doubly linked list of memory blocks. It isn't virtual and it isn't the reason for the graphical improvements over Wolf 3D.
The zone allocation can still be found in the Quake 3 source code, however it isn't the primary memory manager as it is in Doom.
Shraka wrote on Tue, 08 November 2005 00:27 | John Carmack is an awesome programer, and his work with open source gaming is legendary, making him okay in my book...
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Agree with you on this point.
RWDboy wrote on Tue, 08 November 2005 12:29 | I have to disagree with you regarding Carmack being an 'awesome programmer' - he's got a good vision for where he wants the technology to go and has pushed the hardware manufacturers quite hard to achieve those goals. All the 'awesome' programming done at iD was done by Michael Abrash.
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WTF? Michael Abrash is an amazing programmer, but so is John Carmack. Have a read of "Ramblings in Realtime" by Michael Abrash. It seems the man himself disagrees with you. Here's just one quote:
Michael Abrash wrote | "John [Carmack] had done not only DOOM, but also the engines for Wolf 3D and several earlier games, and had actually done several different versions of each engine in the course of development (once doing four engines in four weeks)"
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Shraka | Fri, 28 October 2005 23:49 |
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RWDboy | Tue, 01 November 2005 14:35 |
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RWDboy | Tue, 01 November 2005 14:38 |
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Yian | Tue, 01 November 2005 15:00 |
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EldarO | Tue, 01 November 2005 14:43 |
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RWDboy | Wed, 02 November 2005 01:30 |
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RWDboy | Wed, 02 November 2005 02:26 |
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Shraka | Wed, 02 November 2005 06:34 |
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RWDboy | Wed, 02 November 2005 14:24 |
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Shraka | Mon, 07 November 2005 02:25 |
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Shraka | Mon, 07 November 2005 02:17 |
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RWDboy | Mon, 07 November 2005 04:03 |
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Shraka | Mon, 07 November 2005 06:49 |
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Shraka | Mon, 07 November 2005 06:50 |
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RWDboy | Mon, 07 November 2005 13:01 |
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Shraka | Mon, 07 November 2005 13:27 |
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RWDboy | Tue, 08 November 2005 01:29 |
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Shraka | Tue, 08 November 2005 05:36 |
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AlexT | Sat, 19 November 2005 12:02 |
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Shraka | Sun, 20 November 2005 02:39 |
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AlexT | Sun, 20 November 2005 04:59 |
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Shraka | Sun, 20 November 2005 05:58 |
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RWDboy | Tue, 08 November 2005 12:42 |
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BlackSupra | Tue, 08 November 2005 12:47 |
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Phrostbyte | Tue, 08 November 2005 12:59 |
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Shraka | Wed, 09 November 2005 14:41 |
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Phrostbyte | Wed, 09 November 2005 21:41 |
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Shraka | Thu, 10 November 2005 03:06 |
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mynameisrodney | Thu, 10 November 2005 03:52 |
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Shraka | Thu, 10 November 2005 04:05 |
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Phrostbyte | Thu, 10 November 2005 04:51 |
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