Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full(fabiensanglard.net)
459 points by shdon | 200 comments
Fabien Sanglard blog post about the 1996 Quake shareware CD-ROM, how id Software distributed it, and why the disc was nearly too full.
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How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack(fabiensanglard.net)
457 points by billiob | 118 comments
Fabien Sanglard article explaining how Quake.exe, a DOS game from 1996, gained TCP/IP networking support amid the shift from DOS to Windows.
The Sims Game Design Documents (1997)(donhopkins.com)
402 points by krykp | 56 comments
An Apache directory listing of PDF design documents from the development of The Sims (1997), hosted on Don Hopkins' site, covering goals, objects, people, simulator, and graphics.
Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine(mitpress.mit.edu)
399 points by jarmitage | 148 comments
MIT Press book page for "Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine" by Chaim Gingold, with a foreword by Janet H. Murray.