John Carmack Archive - .plan (1998)

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March 18, 2007

 

Contents

1 January 5

1.1 Some of the things I have changed recently (Jan 01, 1998). 51.2 Jan 02, 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.3 New stuff fixed (Jan 03, 1998). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.4 Version 3.10 patch is now out. (Jan 04, 1998). . . . . . . . . 81.5 Jan 09, 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.6 I AM GOING OUT OF TOWN NEXT WEEK, DON’T SENDME ANY MAIL! (Jan 11, 1998). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2 February 12

2.1 Ok, I’m overdue for an update. (Feb 04, 1998). . . . . . . . 122.2 Just got back from the Q2 wrap party in vegas that Activi-sion threw for us. (Feb 09, 1998). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.3 Feb 12, 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.4 8 mb or 12 mb voodoo 2? (Feb 16, 1998). . . . . . . . . . . 192.5 I just read the Wired article about all the Doom spawn.(Feb 17, 1998). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.6 Feb 22, 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

 

John Carmack Archive 2 .plan 1998

3 March22

3.1 American McGee has been let go from Id. (Mar 12, 1998). 223.2 The Old Plan (Mar 13, 1998). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223.3 Mar 20, 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253.4 IjustshutdownthelastoftheNEXTSTEPsystemsrunning at id. (Mar 21, 1998). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263.5 Mar 26, 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

4 April30

4.1 Drag strip day! (Apr 02, 1998). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304.2 Things are progressing reasonably well on the Quake 3 en-gine. (Apr 08, 1998). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314.3 Apr 16, 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324.4 Yes, I bought an F50. No, I don’t want a McLaren. (Apr 17,1998). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324.5 F50 pros and cons vs F40 (Apr 22, 1998). . . . . . . . . . . 34

5 May 36

5.1 May 02, 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365.2 May 04, 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365.3 Here is an example of some bad programming in quake(May 17, 1998). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395.4 May 19, 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395.5 May 22, 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

6 June42

6.1 Jun 08, 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42CONTENTS