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New comment by bishopdynamics in "Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser"

bishopdynamics — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:00:22 +0000

This is awesome! Great work! I love playing around with these older game engines that have source available, its really neat to explore how they work, and fiddle around with it.

If you haven’t already, Fabien’s write ups of the various ID engines are a joy to read: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/index.php

Shameless plug: I also like to play around with old game engines: https://github.com/bishopdynamics/Continuum

Show HN: Half-Life 1, without loading screens

bishopdynamics — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:44:13 +0000

During the ~48hrs that I had access to Fable 5, I decided to have fun with the Xash3D-FWGS engine for Half-Life 1, starting with a "level streaming" system (pre-load the whole campaign, its only ~500MB anyay).

After that was working, I succumbed to the call of feature creep and added a projected flashlight, and some ambient occlusion, and some hacky entity shadows.

Finally, I redid the menu system to be controller-first, using glyphs and detecting controller to match them, and to have the configuration shared between all the games. Of course, partway thru I lost access to Fable 5, and Opus 4.8 wrapped up the rest of it.

It was a lot of fun to build and play, and I thought maybe other people would enjoy playing it too.

Have fun!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635911

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New comment by bishopdynamics in "Can You Build a CPU?"

bishopdynamics — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 19:28:36 +0000

If you're looking to get a much better understanding of /why/ things work, you should check out Ben Eater's videos on YT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyznrdDSSGM&list=PLowKtXNTBy...

Web-based netboot automation system using ipxe

bishopdynamics — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 18:33:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/bishopdynamics/netboot-studio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24454394

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