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Re: Raycasting 3D demo disk
- Subject: Re: Raycasting 3D demo disk
- From: "Liam Busey" <buseyl@yahoo.com>
- Date: 18 Jan 2007 13:51:12 -0800
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David Schmenk wrote:
> Here for your enjoyment is a technology preview/demonstration of a
> raycasting and rendering algorithm I have developed as part of my Apple
> II 30th birthday-retro-game-just-because-I-can thing. Reminiscent of
> Wolfenstein 3D, it runs on a standard 1 MHz 48K Apple II+ (or II w/
> Applesoft in RAM/ROM) or greater. Only a joystick is required. It is
> possible to run it on an emulator, but I highly recommend using real
> hardware with a color monitor. Accelerators make it run too fast, so
> disable them if you want the controls to be sane. I present it as a
> 140K DOS 3.3 disk image compressed with gzip. Download with this URL:
>
> http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/tarfiles/raydemo.dsk.gz
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That's pretty cool! I fired your demo up on my II+ and it ran great. It
was surprisingly smooth. Lores is normally boring but you really
brought it too life. David Schmenk is definately a geek! ;)
I'll look forward to your improvements as they come along. Nice job.
- Liam Busey