You know the one?



From Dr. Dobb's Journal?


I figured, hey, you may be interested in the article behind that?
It's here, though that doesn't load for me. Google Cache version is here.


It's more than 13 years old. So if you read this, hey, you may have been a baby back when those words were written. Or maybe you weren't even born yet! Crazy to think about!




Whoa, awesome

See, so much for computer games not progressing: Nowadays you also get achievements for going into the next room

And it's not rooms anymore but long passages

Win32 for the win!

Dr. Dobb's Journal was awesome. It ended when I was a little kid, but my dad kept stacks of them around and when I was older I enjoyed reading them now and again. You can still find good bits in there occasionally, and of course there is also the nostalgia factor involved with seeing what software development was like when I was barely old enough to use a computer myself.

EDIT: Just saw this "feature" listed in the article:

Because A4 isn't like those other engines which can only change a few levels before they break.

EDIT2: So apparently Dr. Dobb's Journal is still going, and I didn't know it. Awesome. Though now it's just a monthly PDF, which is not so awesome. Does anyone know why it's declined so much? Its wikipedia article doesn't say much.

Error014 , nice to see you're still here

I remember when I started with A4. It was very powerful engine back then, because there wasnt much competition. Now , almost every engine that comes out supports the same things like the other engines and Acknex cant shine...
But in my eyes it remains the most universal and powerful thing I've seen in computer programming.