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- Would love to hear about the other Apogee and Epic games, like Epic Pinball, Tyrain, Halloween Harry, Jill of the Jungle, Duke Nukem...by bluedino
- Great write up. Reminds me of Cosmodoc, which is similar source but analyzes Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure instead of Commander Keen.by pan69
- Of related interest:
Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code
https://pckf.com/viewtopic.php?t=18248 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46321982)
- Someone ping Fabien Sanglard! Looks so much like his site!by LarsDu88
- If you want to play it you can do that here: https://www.playdosgames.com/play/commander-keen-4by woutersf
- Lovely book. Skimming through it. One thing that might help contextualize it is a brief discussion of the how contemporary hardware like the SNES rendered sprites so efficiently compared to the PC hardware at the time. It's not obvious to modern readers why a PC with significantly more powerful compute capabilities would struggle to keep up with significantly slower Nintendo hardware at the time for sprite rendering.by LarsDu88
- Masters of Doom is a great book on the history of id software, which includes the origins of the development of smooth scrolling by Carmack and Romero, which was groundbreaking at the time on PC.by evilturnip
- It's a shame that the author both erased their own writing style using ChatGPT, and wholesale copied sections of the content from another author.by turpentine