idNews/idNews03_release1.1

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

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

Subject: idNews: release 1.1

Date: 15 Dec 1993 19:34:57 -0600

Organization: id Software

Will be releasing the new version (actually, we're calling it 1.1 now

because the original uploads were called DOOM1_0) this evening. We are

going to use the 1.95 4GWPRO dos extender for the new version and

patch, but if you have difficulty with it, we will provide other

executables that you can try with the 1.8 DOS4GW extender and 1.94

4GWPRO extender.

Yes, we think this business with flakey extender versions is a pain,

too. The price we pay for wanting to make this game on a platform

with a market. PC's. DOS. Sigh.

Can't believe y'all found the cheat codes so fast. I sorta munged 'em

up, too! Sheesh. By the way, I think y'all missed a cheat code.

"iddt" in the automap. Try it a couple of times. A short background

thing: "dqd" stands for Delta-Q-Delta, an informal fraternity that two

other hackers and I made up. The requirements were getting a "Q" in

your class (stands for "Quit"- like failing but it doesn't go on your

GPA. we impressed our friends with programming feats but weren't

exactly scholastic role models- so far only one of us has graduated

:). The "spispopd" is complements of the Usenet. See Seth Cohn's

post. "Choppers" is a State Programming Contest game that a friend of

mine named Guy Maor helped write (-GM). He's a little defensive of it

'cause it wasn't *quite* finished on the release day. Was a cool

two-player Rescue Raiders rip-off. He was drunk and talk'd me one

night, and I thought I'd put it in. I believe that you'll get a

chainsaw from it and be invulnerable (just checked the code- yeah,

should make you invulnerable but i never tested it).

Please don't bang too hard on the ftp sites tonight. We caused a lot

of ftp sites to crash on the release day. Thanks..

=-ddt->