Wired E3

Maarten Goldstein

May 15, 2000 12:16 PM

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Wired has a story of some random E3 things, including the news that ex-id programmer Michael Abrash is now on the X-Box team. Saw that on Stomped.

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May 15, 2000 12:19 PM

What did he do at id specifically?
- Holesinswiss
  
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  May 15, 2000 2:36 PM
  
  he did a lot of the assembly optimization that made the Quake engine so fast. If it weren't for that work, Quake wouldn't have ran on probably half the machines that it did.
  
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  - freshview
    
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    May 15, 2000 2:41 PM
    
    To clarify.
    
    The man was a HARDCORE MOTHERFUCKER
    
    took the assembly right down to the clock cycle, and made the fastest rasterizer ever seen in a video game.
    
    Check out his online articles that were posted a few weeks ago, the man is almost as much a genius as Carmack.
    - Holesinswiss
      
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      May 15, 2000 3:01 PM
      
      yeah, I read 'em. Not being interested in graphics programming all that much however, my assessment stopped at what your first sentence stated. :)
      
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