/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10905792
There's a few minor errors here and there. I believe the description of the NeXSTEP computer and its company wasn't entirely correct, and then there's a few things which aren't entirely clear, like Mitzi.

As presented by the book, it's suggested Mitzi was put down some time in 1992, when they were based in a lake house in Shreveport, Louisiana. However, this interview with John Carmack from 1996, in the East Town Towers, in Dallas, Texas, shows a cat jumping up next to him, and him casually petting it while talking.
This could be a different cat, but that's not clear and this cat isn't mentioned in the book at all, for all we know this is Mitzi, so perhaps the book made some omission for narrative reasons, when perhaps Carmack actually changed his mind somewhere and a different arrangement was made somehow.

I don't know if Carmack himself has ever read the book.

>>10653541
>>10653561
That story is questionable.

>>9903054
It might, but a lot of what he's retold over the years lines up pretty well with that book.

>>9903157
>The book was painstakingly researched to retell the history of id Software, based on interviews of the id guys. Its an account of factual historical events, theres nothing one sided about it, its just a history book.
It's well researched, but there's a couple of discrepancies.

>>9183671
>>9183689
>>9183701
>>9183723
That story probably did not go the way people thought it did.