Game Engine Black Book, Wolfenstein 3D Quotes

“Some people (including the author) saved money by drilling holes in their 720 KiB certified floppy disks to have them recognized as 1.44 MiB. It worked!”
― Fabien Sanglard, Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D

“As of 2016, more than thirty five years after the introduction of the 8086, in the name of backward compatibility, all PCs in the world still start in real mode. A bootloader switches them to protected mode, loads the kernel, and then actual startup can begin.”
― Fabien Sanglard, Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D

“The x86 is an architecture that is difficult to explain and impossible to love. David Patterson & John Hennessy”
― Fabien Sanglard, Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D

“Or they could have no idea they had to install a driver, load nothing at startup, and not use any of the RAM beyond 1MiB. This use case was a big issue.”
― Fabien Sanglard, Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D

“Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn’t take it away from you. I’m happy to share what I can, because I’m in it for the love of programming.”
― Fabien Sanglard, Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D

“We didn’t have spell checkers in our editors back then, and I always had poor spelling. The word "collumn" appears in the source code dozens of times. After I released the source code, one of the emails that stands out in memory read: It’s "COLUMN", you dumb FUCK! John Carmack - Programmer”
― Fabien Sanglard, Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D