Comment on What were your (now retro, but not at the time) gaming wow moments

HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember my brother telling me about Wolfenstein 3D. I insisted that something like that, that moved smoothly at your command in any direction instead of in clunky 90° turns and blockwise steps, was impossible with the current technology.

  I was wrong.

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  • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you were right, the computers couldnt do the math in time. the trick was to precalculate the sin/cos tables for angle steps into tons of lookups instead.

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    • EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It wasn’t just the trig tables, but realtime raycasting altogether felt like sorcery.

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• Kelly@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And was re-released last week. I was pleased to see the 2024 console ports still support LAN play.

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