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6/20/2025, 9:15:03 PM
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He just knew a lot about x86 PCs and how to work around their limited video hardware
It's not like Doom was some sort of magical achievement in the frontiers of the latest technology, Doom is only notably tech wise because it ran fast on regular office PCs so you could play Doom at work in-between spreadsheets.
Pic related is what true cutting edge graphics looked like at the time. Daytona USA was shown off at a tech conference a few months before Doom came out, and was made generally available a few months after Doom in the form of a 30 thousand dollar arcade cabinet. It would take half a decade before you could get this kind of power in a home computer, at any price.
He just knew a lot about x86 PCs and how to work around their limited video hardware
It's not like Doom was some sort of magical achievement in the frontiers of the latest technology, Doom is only notably tech wise because it ran fast on regular office PCs so you could play Doom at work in-between spreadsheets.
Pic related is what true cutting edge graphics looked like at the time. Daytona USA was shown off at a tech conference a few months before Doom came out, and was made generally available a few months after Doom in the form of a 30 thousand dollar arcade cabinet. It would take half a decade before you could get this kind of power in a home computer, at any price.
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