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0 pointsfuball635y ago0 comments

Can you clarify what you mean? I recently got into developing on the Quake 2 engine, which I think is an amazing piece of software, so I'm kinda obsessed with all things Quake right now.

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Goronmon5y ago

Quake is made by id Software. ZeniMax Media owns id Software. Microsoft just aquired ZeniMax Media.

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pjmlp5y ago

Carmack is the only reason why OpenGL is at all relevant in PC gaming as it was miniGL that made it popular in first place, against Glide.

Later on he changed his mind regarding OpenGL vs DirectX, but there are legions of wannabe game developers that worshiped his opinions regarding OpenGL.

See my sibling post regarding his change of opinion.

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