I highly recommend reading "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner

[Anarky]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>It gives the whole story of John Romero and John Carmack and how they started out their programming careers. It introduces how they formed ID and how they ended up splitting over time. You also hear about other company's forming and how certain programmers like American McGee worked for ID and what happened with them.

A good read.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I second that. Excellent book. It's kind of suprising how these guys can be so smart about somethings, yet inept in other areas that seem obvious to me...</div>

[Anarky]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>yeah especially how Carmack would talk somtimes to others, like he did not understand other humans at all. I did like how Carmack was into the cars though, that was neat</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Well it's not TOO suprising to hear of a socially inept nerd. :) But I'm suprised by some of their idiotic early business decisions (like using encrypted shareware early on, you'd think they'd know it could be broken easily) and their seemingly heartless way of excising members of the company...</div>

[Anarky]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>yeah they really had no problems cutting out the fat, or friends for that matter</div>