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- From: deragon@JETHRO.CS.NYU.EDU (John Deragon)
- Newsgroups: alt.games.gb
- Subject: Re: Serious bug fix
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 22:11:51 -0600
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- In article <1992Dec24.233506.28199@nwnexus.WA.COM> ninja@halcyon.com (Jonathan R
- oy) writes: >
- bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce) writes>>
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- >> - Seriously, the game will be unstable until you reach a point where
- >> - it's more interesting to fix non-lethal bugs than to add cool new
- >> - features. And that'll probably never happen.
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- Well, I am at the point now where I am *not* adding any new
- code, (well, at least not any new *features*) I agree with you completely
- that most people are happy just slapping new coats of paint (features) onto
- and old house (GB). I personally would *much* rather be doing new development
- then renovation. Where I used to work, we would have to draw straws to see
- who would renovate old code, and who would get to do new development.
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- I am at the point now where GB has been around long enough that I see
- no-one wants to renovate, so I kinda started doing it myself.
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- > (Seeker being one of them) to form a group of programmers to move GB
- > coding ahead.
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- >> - There may be *older* versions of the game that get completely
- >> - debugged and stabilized, but nobody'll want to play them because
- >> - they lack the latest and greatest. C'est la joue.
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- Well, I am working with the 5.2 code. And it is not like there
- is a patch or new release of GB every week. Jeeze...
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- >I was going to keep things quiet for a few more months, but I couldn't
- >resist replying to your message. :) Work _IS_ being done daily, and
- >you'll see GB stable within 6 months. Hopefully it'll get a large,
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- Wow... talk about loose lips.... *grin* I think ninja need to be
- taught how to keep his lips closed.... "Vee have wayz to keep zee lips
- shut, dear ninza!, Vee have our wayz!"
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- Sigh... (I dont t hink the newsgroup has seen so much traffic in
- quite some time!
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- Seeker.
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