Those who have read Masters of Doom might get a kick out of this:
http://www.johnromero.com/games_ddici.htm
Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement, a demo made by Carmack to actually make a PC game with smooth scrolling, is publically available.
http://www.johnromero.com/games_ddici.htm
Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement, a demo made by Carmack to actually make a PC game with smooth scrolling, is publically available.
As soon as the demo started running, I pressed the right arrow key to see if magic had indeed been made. As soon as little Dave walked a short way to the right.....
THE SCREEN SCROLLED.
SMOOTHLY.
I was speechless.
There's no way to overstate how completely and totally blown away I was. I couldn't work for 3 hours, no joke. What I had in front of me was The Future.