January 20, 2017
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Tim Sweeney Honored at GDC
The Saint recounts Tim Sweeney’s early contributions to making Windows a gaming platform
December 28, 2016
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Higher dimensional games
I’m bored with 3D games. They’re all the same run, jump, shoot, cast, basic AI dialog… snore… Games need another technology revolution. Back in 1994 …
July 18, 2014
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Early Direct3D, COM and OpenGL
The Saint revisits the early decisions that led to massive industry conflict over Direct3D vs OpenGL
June 8, 2014
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Direct3D, OpenGL, Metal, Full Circle
The Saint compares the new Apple Metal API to Direct3D 1.0
March 25, 2014
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OpenGL vs Direct3D… YAWN…
The OpenGL vs Direct3D debate gets The Saint ranting about… more interesting subjects…
August 15, 2013
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Letter from the first DirectX developer to Bill Gates
Zack Simpson, the first DirectX developer, sends a message to Microsoft from 1997
July 25, 2013
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The Advent of Web 3D
A brief history of the evolution of web 3D, The Saints role in pioneering it and why everyone else is an idiot, as usual…
July 22, 2013
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The Evolution of Direct3D
How the architecture strategy behind Direct3D lead to the modern GPU and massively convoluted 3D graphics pipeline
