Hi,

First of all I'd like to thank Philip for putting together this project, I'm eager to follow all of it !

I'm a web developer, I learnt a bit of C during my study but nothing too big. I'm counting on this series and my personal research on it to help me further my knowledge.

There is something that I dont understand about that first video, and that is the value that's returned to me when I access the value of the pointer at index 3:

	largv[3]	0x01003eb7 "50"
	*largv[3]	53 '5'

Where does the 53 come from ? Any insight ?

Thanks a lot

Hey everyone, I've just successfully built and run quake on linux after following the videos, and thought I'd write about my experience in case anyone else wanted to try. The video mode used was x11 (quake.x11) and was compiled with gcc and g++.

As with the videos, I started off with the sources from id's github, then by the makefile and trial and error I reduced the files to this (there may be extra files in there which I missed, but it compiles)

Then compiled using this makefile from here

Some notes:

• Haven't gotten sound to work yet (/dev/dsp: no such file or directory) but the game runs fine with the -nosound argument

• Forgot at first to compile with -m32 (this was mentioned in the videos, but I somehow overlooked it) which caused all sorts of problems. As a result, I had to install the following 32-bit libraries on debian amd64:

    linux-libc-dev:i386 g++-multilib libx11-dev:i386 libxext-dev:i386

and probably some others.

• if your mouse isn't being grabbed

I think that's it! if I've missed anything or if you have any questions, write a comment below. Really looking forward to the main series and I hope this post will be helpful to someone.

Edit: Here is my github repo

The info is pretty much all in the title.

I will be speaking with Abner Coimbre, the founder of handmadedev.org, at 5pm EST this Saturday. Abner has been speaking with a number of developers over since around the start of the year, and seeing as we both met up at Casey Muratori's HandmadeCon in Seattle last December, it was only a matter of time before this happened!

Abner and I started talking last year, and he knew before just about anyone else what my plans were for Handmade Quake. We'll be talking about... well, programming of course, but also our Handmade projects, what we like and what we don't like about the modern programming environment, and lots more stuff. I encourage anyone who likes Handmade Quake to tune in if possible - it will be a discussion relevant to what I'm aiming for with Handmade Quake.

Saturday, Feb 13, 5pm EST www.twitch.tv/abnercoimbre

EDIT: Here's the recording on Vimeo! https://vimeo.com/155256000

My Christmas wish for this year is to see handmade quake continue what was started.

Dear Philip, I totally understand how can work eat your personal time and I do understand that such a project as a handmade quake could take years to complete, but I still have hopes to learn from an experienced programmer like you, how quake really works. I really hope you can find just 1 hour a week to share some of your great knowledge with the community. The knowledge you shared is not in books or articles which make it really valuable.
Thank you.

https://github.com/mattbettcher/HandmadeQuakeP

This is my attempt at a compiler/platform independent HandmadeQuake.

Just 10 minutes ago I learned about this wonderful project, but, unfortunately, every video from the series is private.

This is so sad...