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TalenLee
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Question going around twitter: what’s the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know? (you’re getting more content than twitter is:)
  • There's a comment on a line of code in Quake 3 Arena that seems to indicate the discovery of a wholly new way to make the underlying language execute a fast inverse square root, and nobody knows who wrote it
  • The people who made Quake and Doom also made a literal ripoff of Super Mario Bros for the EGA as a tech demo
  • The Texas Instrument calculator that runs Doom was probably made by the guy who made the metroidvania game Captain Comic, where the starting planet of Tambi is 'IBM AT' backwards
  • Chris Perkins, the D&D personality, wrote the videogame Traffic Department 2192
  • The Skunny games were legally actioned on
  • Mixed Up Mother Goose and Leisure Suit Larry were both made by the same person
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Xylaria
@Xylaria

The fast inverse square root thing is so funny, because at first everyone thought, oh this was Carmack, it has to be him, but he vehemently denies it. It has to be someone who was directly working under him though - a single-digit number of people - and he 100% knows who it was, but won't say.

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Xylaria
@Xylaria

That wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

Apparently the "secret" isn't really a secret - it's based on a 1986 paper - but that would meant someone on Carmack's team sat around reading research papers (and in the 90s that was no trivial feat), so it'd have to be someone very dedicated.

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