oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan
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An archive of John Carmack’s .plan files in readable markdown format
10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2020-01-01 · latest 2025-10-25
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…he talks about the developments in that area. From what I recall that is in the 1997 - 1998 era. * https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan EDIT: I found one... * https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan/blob/master...
comment by Eisenstein · 2025-10-25 · in Carmack on Operating Systems (1997) -
Found this in there, a great soapbox piece about opengl vs D3D. https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan/blob/master...
comment by dehugger · 2025-10-04 · in Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it -
https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan you can read carmacks old .plan files They're mostly not exactly prose but remember this was almost 40 years ago when the dominant style of writing code in some places was still ye olde K&R…
comment by mhh__ · 2025-10-03 · in Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it -
Man, he was so productive. https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan/blob/master... frag bar start profile on late frame fixed relinking bug improved prediction bounding change weapon chooses supers first ammo pictures on status bar…
comment by piker · 2025-10-02 · in Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs -
…[2] https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/ [3] https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan
comment by interroboink · 2025-10-02 · in Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs -
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John Carmack's .plan Archivestory by helloplanets · 2025-09-17 · 0 comments
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John Carmack's Most Important Lesson: Gratitude (2000)story by platunit10 · 2025-06-25 · 0 comments
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You can read his reasoning here: https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan/blob/53c00a...
comment by klaussilveira · 2023-02-06 · in QCVM: Bite-sized QuakeC VM written in C -
…the development of Quake is pretty well documented. Both through a book and Carmack’s plan files https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom
comment by randomifcpfan · 2022-04-07 · in The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996 -
…uesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=2&time=199806... And John Carmack's .plan archive from 1996 forward: https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan/tree/master...
comment by adventured · 2020-01-01 · in Viaweb's First Business Plan (1995)