We should also call the guy that invented plastic (Alexander Parkes with with a plastic-like goo) a pathetic excuse for a human, because his only intention was to make disposable plastic coffee cups - what a waste! Why didn't he do something useful with his life! Then again, without the field of plastics, our lives would be vastly different, including medicine; flight; agriculture;....
Jon's games and code have advanced the field of personal real-time 3D graphics as a whole, not simply first-person shooters. Without the pressures which Carmack and friends brought to bear on the graphics cards manufacturers the 3D graphics market would still be insignificant. The positive effects of this research has and will continue to be profound. Virtually every game currently under development has a 3D component to it.
Strategy games (WC3)
Flight sims
The Sims
First person shooters
Role playing games
Think on the profound changes that are likely over the next 5-10 years within the 3D graphics / simulation space. Imagine if all we had to look forward to in gaming was yet another side-scrolling game...
The foundations for the sweeping vista that is the real-time 3D graphics space was laid by one man: John Carmack.
64Kb! Hah! My first "take-home" 'PC' used silver dip switches on the front panel, 16 LED's (8 for address, 8 for data - all red). About the size of a small VCR nowadays. It was the "expanded" microcomputer version that had 256 bytes of RAM, as opposed to the completely useless and very limited 128 bytes of RAM. That's "bytes", not "kb". I'm pretty sure it didn't run OpenGL...
>Every day Iraqi babies die because of the
>sanctions. Every month the death toll of Iraqi
>children surpasses 5,000. And George Jr. has
>taken over the job of bombarding Iraqis by air
>to make sure that their misery continues
These sanctions are only in place as a last resort. Saddam cheerfully moved his bioweapons installations around (among other non-acceptable activities), deliberately provoking the UN to impose the sanctions.
Iraqi babies are dying because the leader of their country will not save them.
Slashdot Mirror
Jon's games and code have advanced the field of personal real-time 3D graphics as a whole, not simply first-person shooters. Without the pressures which Carmack and friends brought to bear on the graphics cards manufacturers the 3D graphics market would still be insignificant. The positive effects of this research has and will continue to be profound. Virtually every game currently under development has a 3D component to it.
- Strategy games (WC3)
- Flight sims
- The Sims
- First person shooters
- Role playing games
Think on the profound changes that are likely over the next 5-10 years within the 3D graphics / simulation space. Imagine if all we had to look forward to in gaming was yet another side-scrolling game...The foundations for the sweeping vista that is the real-time 3D graphics space was laid by one man: John Carmack.
64Kb! Hah! My first "take-home" 'PC' used silver dip switches on the front panel, 16 LED's (8 for address, 8 for data - all red). About the size of a small VCR nowadays. It was the "expanded" microcomputer version that had 256 bytes of RAM, as opposed to the completely useless and very limited 128 bytes of RAM. That's "bytes", not "kb". I'm pretty sure it didn't run OpenGL...
64Kb! "Luxury"!
Funky
>Every day Iraqi babies die because of the
>sanctions. Every month the death toll of Iraqi
>children surpasses 5,000. And George Jr. has
>taken over the job of bombarding Iraqis by air
>to make sure that their misery continues
These sanctions are only in place as a last resort. Saddam cheerfully moved his bioweapons installations around (among other non-acceptable activities), deliberately provoking the UN to impose the sanctions.
Iraqi babies are dying because the leader of their country will not save them.