{"id":6883,"date":"2012-08-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/08\/13\/why-am-i-in-the-quake-credits\/"},"modified":"2012-08-13T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T07:00:00","slug":"why-am-i-in-the-quake-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20120813-00\/?p=6883","title":{"rendered":"Why am I in the Quake credits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/07\/20\/10040074.aspx#10040861\"> Anon wants to know why<\/a> I am listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/windows\/quake\/credits\"> the credits for the video game Quake<\/a> under the &#8220;Special Thanks&#8221; section. &#8220;Were you an early tester\/debugger?&#8221;\n I&#8217;ve never played a game of Quake in my entire life. I (and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/10\/06\/10071954.aspx\"> most of the rest of the Windows&nbsp;95 team<\/a>) played DOOM, but after a while, first-person-shooter games started giving me a headache. By the time Quake came out, I had already abandoned playing FPS games.\n I don&#8217;t remember what it was that I did specifically, but it was along the lines of helping them with various technical issues related to running under Windows. At the time, I was a kernel developer, and the advice I gave was almost certainly related to memory management and swapping.<\/p>\n<p> Sorry it wasn&#8217;t anything exciting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anon wants to know why I am listed in the credits for the video game Quake under the &#8220;Special Thanks&#8221; section. &#8220;Were you an early tester\/debugger?&#8221; I&#8217;ve never played a game of Quake in my entire life. I (and most of the rest of the Windows&nbsp;95 team) played DOOM, but after a while, first-person-shooter games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Anon wants to know why I am listed in the credits for the video game Quake under the &#8220;Special Thanks&#8221; section. &#8220;Were you an early tester\/debugger?&#8221; I&#8217;ve never played a game of Quake in my entire life. I (and most of the rest of the Windows&nbsp;95 team) played DOOM, but after a while, first-person-shooter games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}