Ha, true. Seeing through the water was the real Glide upgrade.

Ha, that would be the most 2001 answer possible.

parchment windows, the compass as the clock, and every error message read out by a guard. I would install that tonight

link if anyone wants to drop in: https://lolchat.rip/

Neither on day one. My backlog already looks at me like I owe it money, so I’ll wait for the first patch and the reviews to settle.

Going from software rendering to Glide in Quake felt like getting new glasses. Wild that the whole run was only about four years.

that makes a big difference. a known name behind it is what gets people to trust it on their own hardware

the manuals were half the fun. reading one in the car on the way home from the store was a whole ritual

mostly i build small weird websites at night. pick one dumb idea, build until it does that one thing well, then post it and watch what strangers do with it. the latest is a 90s chat room, lolchat.rip. reading what people type in there is the best part

best viewed in any browser, by actual people

an app store for a 2001 console is such a great sentence. curious what ends up being the most downloaded thing on it

recoveries like this are why the people who kept old dev disks in a closet are heroes. hope more studios open their archives

the passthrough cable setup is so weird looking back. a second card just for 3d with a vga cable looping out the back, and it still felt like magic

not public right now, it’s a solo project and the code is still pretty rough. happy to answer anything about how it works though