Friday, December 10, 1999

John Romero .plan update -- 4:39 pm CST, Update by The Master

John Romero updated his .plan today with his birthday wishes for Doom.

It was six short years ago, down to the hour. I remember staying up the last 30 hours doing exhaustive testing before Jay Wilbur uploaded the shareware version of DOOM to the University of Wisconsin's FTP site. We couldn't get in -- too many people were sitting on the site, waiting for our upload. The target directory was full of bogus files with names like when.is.it.coming and hurry.up.id, but finally we got the sysop to up the connect limit to 250 and we barely got in. Afterthat upload, things changed.

I remember the crazy lockup bug we had the day before -- if DOOM sat running for too long, it would just lock up. Turned out to be a valuethat was being incremented by the 140-tic-per-second timer function that was wrapping around (it takes a very long time for a LONG to wrap, even at 140-tics-per-second, but this one was uninitialized so it took even less time). So, we finished it up and sent it out, just knowing everyonewould have a lot of fun with it. Happy Birthday, DOOM.

A.T. Hun comments: That's nice, John. Now get Daikatana finished!

News for 12/10/1999

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