idNews/idNews02_newstuff

From: ddt@daisy.cc.utexas.edu (David Taylor)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

Subject: idNews: New stuff later tonight

Date: 14 Dec 1993 19:48:29 -0600

Organization: id Software

Howdy. We've listen to all your bug reports and stuff and fixed a lot

of the problems with Doom 0.99. Tonight, we'll be releasing Doom 1.00

which will fix a lot of things and should run on many more computers.

It'll only be available to the Internet at first, prolly other stuff

soon (tomorrow at the latest). Will submit it to ftp.uwp.edu tonight.

Three of the major fixes that won't be in this release are the

communications architecture, the PAS 16 support, and the modem

support. We expect the latter two to be finished sometime this week.

Changing over from broadcast packets to connection-oriented packets

will take a while. We're not committing to a time yet, but an

off-the-cuff guess is a couple of weeks. If Doom's current use of

broadcast packets has caused it to be banned from your network, please

be nice and don't play net games with it. It means that the code is

flooding a very large network with broadcast packets and/or slowing

other machines down badly.

What you will find includes most of the stuff mentioned up here plus

SB 1.0 support, a new more stable dos extender, and zillions of other

little bug fixes.

=-ddt->