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by nodja 1380 days ago
Written in plain readable C, open source, iconic game. Same with doom.

This is also from an era where there wasn't that much abstraction and "software rendering" was the norm so the implementations tended to be much more straightforward, this makes it so that worst case scenario, you just write to whatever the equivalent of a framebuffer is in the target implementation.

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Should we maybe take that as a lesson?
Specially for those cases that ship a browser alongside the application....