QuakeCon id Software Keynote Coverage

ruiner5000 writes "If you are not at lucky enough to be at this year's QuakeCon, then you might be wondering what John Carmack and crew are up to. Well, John is a father of a baby boy as of yesterday, so he was not here for his traditional talk on what id is up to. Instead, he appeared on pre-recorded video, followed by normal Q and A session with other id personnel. AMDZone has full coverage of the id keynote, including some pics for your enjoyment. If you want to know about the next engine, the Xbox, OS X, and Linux ports, id's standing on piracy, or Carmack's vision of game engines for movie rendering, then give it a read." S!: There's also continuing QuakeCon coverage over at GameSpy, including a long interview with Todd Hollenshead.

They have it running on a mac

[foidulus]

but id hinted not so subtly that the mac video cards royaly blow(cept for the ultra-expensive high end) by saying that the mac isn't as good as platform as the PC....
Hopefully since Apple finally dropped ADC, more manufacturers will be willing to make mac cards(basically pc cards with modified firmware). I am willing to pay a $25-50 premium, but the $100+ premium for current vid cards is just rediculous, a 9800 should not be over $300....

Doom3 related

[Anonymous Coward]

The doom3 SDK is gonna be a godsend to us modders allowing much more extensive changes to the game. I've completed doom3 and the lackluster multiplayer won't hold me. I'm allready building my own map based on the movie aliens. With the sdk major changes can be made such as implimenting pixel shaded water into doom3 as well as completly changing the gameplay. OH and theres a vehicle test map! AWESOME

Congratulations, John, and...

[Raindance]

As someone who thinks you come across as a good human being in spite of being in the public eye, congratulations on your kid, John. I know you read slashdot on occasion- hopefully this will get to you.

Secondly... most really creative, innovative, and grand things are done by folks who don't have kids- not something that's talked about a lot, but this is a *general* fact certainly supported by history. I (selfishly) hope this happy event doesn't foreshadow a slowdown of Carmack's cutting-edge technology work.

He deserves spending time with his kids rather than coding if he wants, though. Meh. Who knows. :)

RD

Re:RTFA'd

[brokencomputer]

OS X, Port runs, no plans for release, platform (I'm guessing they mean videocards) sucks too much.

So the port works, but they aren't going to release it? Sorry the article is slashdotted, so I haven't been able to read this.

Re:Piracy... I'm thinking no

[Fade_to_Blah]

Wow...news to me (about Doom 3 refusing to install if it finds other software). You have a link to verify this?

It's Nice How Respectful They Are

[Jameth]

A Mac "gamer" asked about the port to OS X

Yes, that's right. It's not a Mac gamer, it's a Mac "gamer".

Thanks for the laugh, AMDZone.

Re:Piracy... I'm thinking no

[NoMercy]

CD protection schemes are useless against anyone who really wants to copy the game. My guess as to why there used, to stop amateur copies being portrayed as the real thing and to detur 12 yearolds trying to copy the game.

Professionals will have the equipment to make a virtually perfect clone of the CD which will get around any CD Protection. The ameturs which are over 12 years of age will work out how to get around the CD protection.

Personally once the first patch is out, I'm seriously tempted to install a CD crack anyway, annoying having to switch CD's all the time.

Re:Huh?

[mrAgreeable]

Carmack with his wife, Anna Kang (And a certain mopey pop musician):
picture [doomzone.com]

Re:It's not that Mac vid sucks...

[King_TJ]

Yeah, you're pretty much correct here - but frankly, I don't know why people keep blowing their money on systems like iMacs or eMacs and expecting to then play the latest 3D games on them?

The G5 is the obvious choice if you want to be a Mac user and still have it double as a "gaming computer". The Radeon 9800 cards in a G5 play everything I've ever seen ported to Mac just fine. Sure, you may not achieve "insane frame rates" like some PCs get - but that's more a wet-dream for benchmarking weenies than what you realistically need to enjoy a game.

In fact, my G5 only has the Radeon 9600 Pro in it, and I have no complaints about video speed with it either. I've played everything from Halo to UT2004 to Medal of Honor to Spiderman on it, and it all works fine for me.

I think the bottom line is this, though. Mac users aren't purchasing their Macs specifically to be a *game system*. They have other reasons they want a Mac, but they just feel it should be able to run some good games too. Everyone likes to have fun once in a while, but not everyone thinks gaming is so critical that it justifies building a second machine just for it.

Re:RTFA'd

[Bulln-Bulln]

Why do they need a publisher? They could release binaries like they plan for the Linux version. Maybe with a custom installer as Blizzard did with Starcraft for OSX.

Carmack's development system

[hal10000]

Does anyone know what kind of system Carmack is developing on? Is it and AMD or Intel based system? Does he use a 512 MB graphics card? It would be nice to get some information on this.