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DirectX

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:26 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Holy cr@p! M$ was cool! This guy rocks! I mean, look at this quote:

So we had this haunted house with all the press and Microsoft execs going through the house, and I got terrified; I thought, "You know what? I'm gonna get fired for this." So I was standing outside the entrance watching these people coming out, laughing, covered with blood, getting their pictures taken, what have you, and all the execs came out laughing, having a great time. I went up to [one of the execs] and said, "Hey, did you like the haunted house," and he goes, "Oh yeah, it was fantastic." So I said, "Well, did you see the id room?" And he said "Yeah, they had a lot of monsters." I asked, "Did you happen to see what they were?" He replied, "Well, it was dark, I saw some stuff getting sprayed around, yeah, it was great!" So the funny thing is with all the press and execs walking through here, either they didn't believe what they were seeing or they just didn't see it. I'm going, "Did any of you see the 8-foot tall vagina monster that attacked you?" "No." "Did any of you see the huge schlongs?" "Oh, is that what that was?" So, it was a very successful party, you know, Patty Stonesifer complained to Gates, but all he said was, "Patty complained, but I heard it was a great party."


http://www.shacknews.com/extras/2007/03 ... tjohn1_3.x


And yet again, id is responsible for helping another company make it in the gaming world. Ironic that id got M$' DirectX off the ground and they're the ones championing OpenGL and OpenAL.

Re: DirectX

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:39 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Linux gets DirectX 11 support before XP:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... 3d11&num=1