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Rendering Real-Time 3D Before GPUs How I built a real-time 3D renderer on a slow 486 with only 256 colors, using fixed-point math, palette quantization, matcap-style Phong lighting, and x86 assembly. ben3d.ca/blog/renderi...

Cool, that was roughly when I finished my suite of asm renderers for my engine too, still using display list and was going to add software ZBuffer but then Glide and the world of 3DFX pulled me away from software rasterization (until the GBA came around)

Nice work! I love the full scene work. You have walkable platforms even. Dos as well? Did you use the Watcom compiler that gave you 32 bit mode? I was always jealous that I didn't have that tool.

At first my PC engine was DOS & assembler only and was used to write my first PC game in 1995 to get into the games industry (youtu.be/AkA_wkLgIKw?...), it used a pmode header, then slowly switched to Watcom and C/C++ and then Windows (and a bunch of different platforms), such a long time ago now