idNews/idNews12_release1.5beta

From: ddt@idcube.idsoftware.com (David Taylor)

Newsgroups: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

Subject: idNews: DOOM v1.5 beta available.

Date: 8 Jul 1994 22:05:13 -0500

Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway

Doom v1.5:

For the adventuresome, DOOM v1.5 BETA at ftp.uwp.edu:

/pub/incoming/id/doom15bt.zip. We'll probably call our

released stuff beta until we feel happy about the (lack

of) bugs. I know our version scheme is a little nutty, so

here's a translation: if the number is higher, it means we

fixed some bugs, maybe added stuff, and hopefully didn't

introduce any new ones. It looks pretty solid to us, and

some sound bugs were fixed, but y'all are the best judges.

Regarding "tinnyness" on the GUS. It's because the sound

code is up-sampling to 22kHz so that it can submit interleaved

buffers. It will probably use seperated channels in the

next version so that it can submit at 11kHz and allow the

hardware sample averaging. If this happens, we'll probably

have Roland RAP-10 sound support as it also uses seperate

buffers.

Let us know how it works. Thanks for your help.

Useful finger thingy:

If you "finger -m help@idsoftware.com", you will get a page

or two explaining the current status of things.

DOOM II:

No big news here. Level design and artwork continues.

Finger help@idsoftware.com for up-to-date information.

Jag stuff:

JagWolf should be arriving on the store shelves about now.

JagDOOM is coming along. It's been through a few non-trivial

overhauls. We still need to re-integrate the sound & music,

add modem support, get the funky visible caching working,

and add little bits and pieces. Wouldn't hold your breath for

it just now. We'll announce a finishing date later.

UNIX stuff:

The SGI port is almost done. I'll be showing it off with

SGI at SIGGRAPH in Florida. It's not a massively upscaled

version of the game, but it's comforting to watch. :)

I've recently learned that Hannu plans to add some hip

stuff to his sound library for Linux to reduce pops and

clicks. Will wait on the release of Linux DOOM until it's

completed and integrated.

Movie stuff:

Looks like it just might happen. Apparently, a fair chunk

of Hollywood is actually addicted to DOOM. It's probably

helping. Our agent is working hard on this. Will let

y'all know soon as we have a solid chunk of details about it.

Until next time...

=-ddt->