Fabien Sanglard

Game Engine Black Book: DOOM v1.2 Game Engine Black Book: WOLFENSTEIN 3D v2.2 The Book of CP-System v1.0 Free pdfs, high-quality 80g premium color prints, PlayStore, and source code are now available. fabiensanglard.net/three_books_...

I took part to Android Developer podcast, with @romainguy.dev and Tor Norbye. We talked about ADB, ADB Wifi, and Quake! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIw...

QuakeCon 2026 founders event poster has been framed!

Circa late '95, early '96, when Quake designers had a leak in their map, they had to hunt where it came from otherwise no PVS was generated. The fps dropped to single digit. Typing "pointfile" in the quake console loaded the pts file and then they had to visually search for the ray of particles!!!

Quakecon 2026 ended up with a new complete signature set of Masters of DOOM.

Anybody has contact with *John Cash*, who worked on Quake as a '95 '96 (yes, I already tried linkedin.com/in/john-cash...)?

Of late, I'm going "down the stack" trying to understand internals of stuff. Discovered @fabinou.bsky.social 's fabulous blog and book on Doom

The founders will the eternal id mom Miss Donna! #quakecon #idsoftware #doom

@FLYNN_S0L0 is putting in major effort for Quakecon 2026!!!

Gregor Punchatz, whom sculpted many of the DOOM 1 monsters, and his dad drew the Doom covert art, is at Quakecon 2026!!! Inconceivable!!

Amazing Shawn Green dropped by Quakecon 2026. Incredibly kind guy who also took the time to sign a few things.

Quakecon 2026 is going well.

Growing up in the 80s in France, the USA was another planet I was unlikely to ever get a chance to visit. Sitting across Tom Hall felt surreal!

@goodass.dog Hi!

I will be at Quakecon 2026!! Can't wait :) !

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail by @fabinou.bsky.social fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_par...

RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

The art and engineering of Silpheed fabiensanglard.net/silpheed/

L’Easter Egg de Spear of Destiny, la suite de Wolfenstein 3D www.journaldulapin.com/2026/05/23/p... @johnromero.bsky.social @fabinou.bsky.social

"Mo RAM, mo problems" (fabiensanglard.net/curse/). The story of how I made my 1997 PC go faster by removing RAM from it.

How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate: fabiensanglard.net/quake_asm_op...

Let's use Windows NT 4 to compile Quake like it's 1997! fabiensanglard.net/compile_like...

Is QSpy still cool? Let's play QuakeWorld! fabiensanglard.net/quakeworld/

Let's build a 1997 Quake PC! fabiensanglard.net/quake_pc/

Looks like Rémi Léonard is close to have a full reverse engineered Strike Commander. And he now has added VR support! youtu.be/WlPiYIiAX2Q?...

How do early systems shape modern software? In Netstack.FM🎙️Ep.18, We talked with Fabien Sanglard @fabinou.bsky.social about latency, Quake’s TCP/IP evolution, Android’s ADB, and Rust in large systems. A reflective conversation on how systems actually work. 🎧 netstack.fm#episode-18 #Networking

I gave an interview to discuss Android, Rust, ADB, Curiosity, Quake, and Networking: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETE...

Why WinQuake exists and how it works: fabiensanglard.net/winquake/

Anybody here with a dual Pentium Pro system. I would be curious to run a benchmark

I am trying to build a dual Pentium Pro system. Finding a motherboard for it is proving really difficult.

Anyone with Windows VxD experience? I am trying to understand how Quake launcher (QLAUNCH.EXE) worked (www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...).

Video Game Maps: SNES - Volume 2 • Cover by @maryannekluth.bsky.social • Foreword by @fabinou.bsky.social • Interview w/ @historyofhyrule.com • Article by Brian Riggsbee • Quotes from 30 artists, writers, game devs, podcasters, comedians, and journalists. retrogamebooks.com/products/vid...

Here and there and back again.

I wrote about my retro winter adventure where I built my childhood dream PC fabiensanglard.net/2168.

Spending an evening like it's 1995.

Installing Command & Conquer, 30 years later

Also check out this great book fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/i... By @fabinou.bsky.social #retrodev #retrogaming #programming #coding #gamedev

Also, you don't want to know how the sausage is made.

Isometric view

For the past four months I have been restoring an IBM PS/1 2168. With the Checkmate monitor, I think I am done. Let's FDOOM.EXE and DUKE3D.EXE, here I come!

I wrote the foreword of "Video Game Map: SNES - Volume 2" (retrogamebooks.com/products/vid...).

Disappointed with an Apple unboxing for the first time ever. On a 270MB connection, the freshly opened machine update will take 4h!

I wrote a small video-game full of bugs to demonstrate Android Studio Debugger at #androidmaker2025. The power of Compose + LiveEdit was quite enjoyable.

If you didn’t preorder then you aren’t too late, as we are stocking some extras. *But* once those are gone, they’re gone. retrogamebooks.com/products/vid...

I am currently restoring an IBM PS/1 2168. I wanted to upgrade to Pentium Overdrive but I need BIOS FRU 07H1001 which I cannot find anywhere. Anybody working at IBM can look in the archive if you have it?

I wrote an article to explain why FastDoom is fast: fabiensanglard.net/fastdoom/ind....

In Video Game Maps: SNES - Vol 2 you'll find a **56-page** spread for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past! retrogamebooks.com/products/vid...

With pcmidi.eu Music Quest card, no more high note stuck bug from the Sound Blaster 16. The MT-32 mode of the SC-55ST work like a dream. This is beautiful.

📗 The preorder for Video Game Maps: SNES - Vol 2 starts now! retrogamebooks.com/products/vid.... Grab the 300-page hardcover book or the limited bundle. ** More in thread**

Moving on to Chuck Yeager Air Combat. The copy protection prompts you with questions before you can start the game. The answer is somewhere in the 300 pages manual.

Installing SYNDICATE from floppies. Priceless!