From: sl859@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer
Subject: Re: Game libraries...
Date: 29 Jul 92 10:32:11 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

Dear Dave,
	Just because it is not feasible in your mind that these things 
are possible, doesn't mean they aren't.  Throughout the years bright 
people have been ridiculed and told they couldn't do something just
because of the jealousy of others.  Stop your whining and bitching and
just listen.  MAYBE you will learn something.  Isn't that what these 
news groups are about?  I told Josh posting his ideas here would cause
someone to freak out, and I was right.  Perhaps a second witness to the
things he has done can help you believe that he is a credible programmer
and has some valid points.  
	Josh is a really interesting person.  He tends to make things 
sound simpler than what they are because to him they are.  I must confess
the first time I ran into him, he blew me away.  I thought he was off 
in left field, but after spending hours at his home and learning what he
was doing, I find he is genuinely involved in projects that I have no 
idea how they work.  (A fact which I am trying to change, since we are
working on some projects together and he gets mad when I say I have no
clue as to what he is talking about.)  He has written a perspective mapping
routine based off the Bresenham line algorithm.  I was there to help him
figure it out.  One evening we just sat down after looking at Wolfenstein
and said, "I wonder how they did that so fast" so we chucked out all the 
stuff we knew about rotations, etc and stumbled into Bresenham.  Josh had 
suspicions on how it would work.  The NEXT DAY I went over to his house to
see what was up and he had one going.  I am amazed at the stuff he puts 
out and the speed with which he does it.  I am a SLOW typist and read 
sluggishly, it takes me much time to think out and resolve in my head how
something works.  Josh is not like that.  I don't know if you have seen
his Protacker Module player, but he has done a superior job on that as well,
and has released the assembly source public domain.  He is completely self-
taught and so at times he uses words which in the business are not the actual
denotation.  He also is only 16 (as of August) years old!  I know he's going 
to kill me for posting this but "Hey what are friends for?"  When I was 16
I was barely learning BASIC.  He spends lots of time on the computer, just
doing experiments and some of his stuff is quite amazing.  
	Now in all honesty, some of the things Josh claims to have done may
seem fanciful dreams but for the most part are pretty good assessments of 
what he is doing.  Now that I have spilled the beans on my friend I might 
say that he's still learning, and now with access to the nets he plans to 
get lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of new stuff.  I know that my
posting this may hamper your opinions to sharing material on the net, but
I hope it doesn't.  I would like to see everyone getting along and mutually
sharing their goodies, and unfortunately the printed word can so easily be
misconstrewed as insult that huge flame wars occur and people get scared to
post any ideas they have, no mattter how ridiculous they may seem.  I hope 
we can exchange ideas and have less flaming, although sometimes we just get
into one of those flame war moods, and its so fun to flame! :)

				wReam...

P.S.  Now see, I would have probably reacted the same way you did, but I 
have met Josh and can look past the glitz to the goods at hand.