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Abrash is especially notable as a technical writer due to his unique writing style. He frequently begins a technical discussion with an anecdote that draws parallels between a real-life experience he has had, and the article's subject matter. Aside from adding personality and wit to what would otherwise be a dry, technical Whitepaper , his prose encourages readers to think out-of-the-box and to approach solving technical problems in an innovative way. His prolific writings have made their way to numerous publications such as a Dr. Dobb's Journal column on graphics programming and code optimization, '' The Zen And Art Of Code Optimization '', and his '' Graphics Programming Black Book '', all of which were influential during their time. His most famous series of articles for Dr. Dobb's Journal , circa 1991, described an undocumented graphics mode for the IBM PC which he called '' Mode X ''. Before getting into technical writing Abrash was a Game Programmer , having written his first commercial game in 1982 , '' Space Strike '' (unrelated to the massively multiplayer game of the same name) for the IBM PC (under DOS ). Other games he wrote were '' Cosmic Crusader '' ( 1982 ) and '' Big Top '' ( 1983 ) for the same system. After working at Microsoft on graphics and assembly code for Windows NT 3.1 , he returned to the Game Industry in the mid- 1990s to work on '' Quake '' for '' Id Software ''. Some of the technology behind ''Quake'' is documented in Abrash's '' Graphics Programming Black Book ''. After ''Quake'' was released, Abrash returned to Microsoft to work on natural language research, then moved to the Xbox team, until 2001 . In 2002 , Abrash went to work for RAD Game Tools , where he co-wrote the advanced ''Pixomatic'' software renderer, which emulates the functionality of a DirectX 7-level graphics card and is used as the software renderer in such games as '' Unreal Tournament 2004 ''. EXTERNAL LINKS
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