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So what does one do with a faster Doom, besides bragging, larger maps and more simultaneous players?

You can play on vintage hardware with a decent refresh rate. It makes it more enjoyable.

Thanks for your awesome articles, esp the path tracing postcard[0] :) I've had the pleasure of hanging out with Andrew Kensler at a conference dinner (EGSR 2019?), amazing guy! He scribbled a bunch of great quasi Monte Carlo notes into my notebook and even signed it on request :")

[0] https://fabiensanglard.net/revisiting_the_pathtracer/index.h...

> He scribbled a bunch of great quasi Monte Carlo notes into my notebook and even signed it on request :"

Show me a photo of that beauty.

+1 on Andrew Kensler's awesomeness. After I published these article, he took the time to send me a package with Pixar goodies. Deeply moving gesture.

I was thinking modern hardware with multiple windows, and RT. I upgraded from a 970m to a 1080m just to see... beauty... wish I had my old PC around.

Does it always have to be for practical benefit? What about pure learning and intellectual enjoyment? Where are the true limits? In the end absolutely nothing we do matters :)

These dudes are living their best lives, and having done Quake-style asm texture mapping loops in the 90s (Mike Abrash, fastmap, Chris Hecker, PC Game Programming Encyclopedia, ...), I can definitely appreciate it <3

People enjoy learning about old software. Fabien Slangard who wrote this article built a whole website and wrote several books based on that.

Two books on Doom, and a book on Wolfenstien. Three books? That rocks!

Impress chicks

Run on slow hardware or save power if you're on a battery.

> more simultaneous players?

You don't get to do that according to the article.

Run it on more obscure hardware?

Considering that the code is mostly x86 assembly, the gains from such optimization are quite unlikely.

Geek cred

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