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Doom iPhone code review.

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 00:33:27 -0400

I took some time away from programming something I hope will become a really good shmup and read the source code of Doom for iPhone. I was very interested in finding out how a pixel oriented engine made the transition to openGL. Here are my notes, as usual I got a bit carried away with the drawings.

Doom engine 1993 code review.

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:33:27 -0400

Before studying the iPhone version, it was important for me to understand how Doom engine WAS performing rendition back in 1993. After all the OpenGL port must reuse the same data from the WAD archive. Here are my notes about Doom 1993 renderer, maybe it will help someone to dive in.

Don't learn Assembly on Mac OS X.

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:33:27 -0400

I had to do some low level work with Mac OS X snow-leopard using my MacBookPro CoreDuo2. I learned plenty regarding GAS for i386 and x86_64 but I would not recommend this setup to learn assembly. I think Apple's specific would discourage a beginner and impair ability to use code samples found in most books. I would rather recommend a IBM T42 with Linux Ubuntu.

Apple iPhone Tech Talk 2009 tricks and treats

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:33:27 -0400

Today I took a day off from work to attend the iPhone Apple Tech Talk 2009 in Toronto. I learned a few cool things and though I should share it with the two lost developers that may stumble on this page. I haven't had time to test and verify all of this so as usual: Do your own testing and trust nobody!.

iPhone 3D engine programming part 1

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:33:27 -0400

Pumped up by the tremendous success of Fluid (4,000,000+ downloads) and Fluid 2 (50,000+ downloads), I started two month ago to write a real game for iPhone: Here is a modest report of my experience in the process.

Armadillo Space T-shirt

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:33:27 -0400

Finally received my Armadillo Space T-Shirt and mug. I recommend them !

Fluid speed issues!

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:33:27 -0400

Fluid v1.3 is too fast on 3GX iPhones ;( ! I will released a fix tonight !

Fluid2 RELEASED ! Fluid 1 now at 3,000,000 downloads !!

Tue, 9 Jun 2009 00:33:27 -0400

Fluid 2 was released today with plenty of news features, check it out !

Fluid: 1,000,000 downloads !!

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:33:27 -0400

Version 1.1 is a HUGE success, I've just posted revision 1.2 and started working on 1.3 and 2.0 ! Stay tuned !

Fluid v1.1 up and coming...

Sat, 9 May 2009 00:33:27 -0400

Fluid version 1.1 will be released next week. Zen music and changing background...

Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone code review

Sat, 9 May 2009 00:33:27 -0400

For once, developers were able to read the source code of an id software product just a few days after its release. I spent a week in my spare time reading the internal of the Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone engine. It is by far the cleanest and easiest id source code release to date.

Fluide

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:33:27 -0400

Fluid tech demo released on iPhone !!!

BumpMapping hell

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:33:27 -0400