john-carmack-plan

He wrote tons of them. I find them great reads. Here is an archive for anyone interested. I think the most interesting stuff is when accelerated GPUs started becoming available to consumers and he talks about the developments in that area. From what I recall that is in the 1997 - 1998 era. * https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan EDIT: I found one... * https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan/blob/master...

Found this in there, a great soapbox piece about opengl vs D3D. https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan/blob/master...

https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan you can read carmacks old .plan files They're mostly not exactly prose but remember this was almost 40 years ago when the dominant style of writing code in some places was still ye olde K&R C with one letter variable names and goto everywhere

Man, he was so productive. https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan/blob/master... frag bar start profile on late frame fixed relinking bug improved prediction bounding change weapon chooses supers first ammo pictures on status bar drop pain flash again and bound tweak armor and spike damages don't pick up equal armor ceiling doors don't cause damage demons crash when jumping monsters need to use bsp clipping need to save memory... Fatal error: NaN impact time from entity change armor damage drop weapons face to face with nailgun does no damage +pointfile from cmdline doesn't work conglomerate hunk printing shoot triggers missing a Z update on rockets sometimes? firing after net games negative scores on frag bar and frag board world backpack and armor model weapon bounce down center look key check change levels in high res mode sh

Basically the .plan file revived (: [1] John Carmack was well-known for keeping his development notes and other thoughts in a .plan file[2][3] Aside: it saddens me a little how the simple idea of copying files onto a server is so many steps removed from modern "web framework" behemoths. I think some people genuinely don't know about the simpler older ways, and the pros and cons between them. [1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/122782/what-is-plan... [2] https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/ [3] https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan

You can read his reasoning here: https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan/blob/53c00a...

You’re in luck in that the development of Quake is pretty well documented. Both through a book and Carmack’s plan files https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom

> I'm not able to find anything that gives a decent sense of how these were used in practice Here you go, the id Software .plan reads on Blue's News. That's how a lot of people consumed id's .plan files back then (with id being one of the more famous publishers at the time). It's not pre-www, however it gives a pretty good sense (for those not exposed to them) of what .plan files were like to consume. On the right side panel you can click through the emloyee names and then change the date with the "Archived Dates" select box above the names: An example by Paul Jaquays: https://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=8 Brian Hook from 1999: https://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=7 John Cash from 2000 and 1998: https://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=9 https://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=9&time=199811... Paul Steed