Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D
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Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D
Fabien Sanglard
3 people recommended it in 3 threads, 2018–2019.
What people on Hacker News said
recommend if you want to study the details of an early 3d game engine, or details about the 386 that made it so hard to do games with
It's been a fascinating read of why games had to be made the way they were back then due to the hardware of the day.
All kinds of tricks to squeeze performance out of a machine designed for word processing and spreadsheets.
Both are a fascinating read about hardware of the early 90's and how id Software took advantage of it to produce the results they did.
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- Ask HN: Fun Tech Book Recommendations? 2019 · 1 recommendation
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