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Stardock Loco History File and Updates. Why, what, and when. Definitely _not_ a must read....:) Lunatic ravings. :::::Starts at the bottom and goes up to here::::: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 16th Been very pleased with the response to SDL! Been working on the next release for some time. Incorporating (secret, don't tell anyone) internet play with my site as a server has been a big job. Hopefully I can finish it up. Going to graduate by June 20th, so I'm very busy. Can't wait to have a real life again! But knowing myself, I'll probably register right away at another school, in another field....hmmm, wonder how culinary school would be. If you are reading this from the top down, start at the bottom!!! This will all make much more sense!!! -1997- May 20th Drag hung-over sun-burnt culo back to phx for more code induced madness. Naw, gotta do school. So, if I take a break for a few months, you'll know why. I'm furthering my education, and finishing my Jr. year here at DeVry. This way I can have a 30k debt when I graduate. Hmmm, wonder if there is a market out there for shareware authors. Maybe I can add it on my resume: December 1995-present - Shareware Author Created a weird game for bulletin board services. Spent 700+ hours coding, debugging, and maintaining C derived source code for amusement of others. Salary averaged .27 cents an hour for time spent on game. WAITASECOND!!! I did all this for .27 cents an hour? YEEESH! I was making 24 bucks an hour serving drinks at 35,000 feet! Ah, but I didn't like that. Well, I'll continue to live off school loans and such. Maybe, just maybe it'll all pan out, and maybe just maybe I may make a couple more bucks off this. :) It was fun. I learned C. Payment received in full. May 16-19 I expand my Spanish vocabulary to include "Mas". Tomo mas cervezas, por favor....<G> Tequila? No. Hope to have as good of a time this time down there as I did last time. What an awesome place to be. If you _ever_ go to Mexico, go to Ixtapa/Zihuatenejo. It is wonderful. Want to go to Playa das Gatas this time. 3 bucks round trip to Ixtapa Island. 3 peso beers. Roasted chicken with hot green sauce. I can't wait! Snorkling, boogie boarding, (No sharks this time please), May never come back....maybe I can live there...<G> May 16 9:20am, flight to Mexico City, Mexico departs from PHX. Hopefully no swamps or mountains in the way to shorten my life span. Heck, I shouldn't worry about these things, as I used to be a flight attendant. (Yeah, I did.) But, I hate to fly, so here I sit on my butt writing code. <G>) May 15 Release of 2.12. Hope I didn't forget anything! I'm writing this in advance. So many drives and director- ies on my HD and disks that apply to SDL that it ain't funny no more. Gotta figger out what is what...:) And delete the right ones this time! Aaaarrr! May 14 Almost finished with the release of 2.12. I like it. Ansi screens turned out pretty cool. Gonna have to try rip next, maybe. I may take a break from the game and see how response is to this version. Not only that, but I need to start concentrating back on school. :) Starting to fall behind, but not badly. Looked on HD for sdcreat1.exe source code, realized I may have deleted it. Hmmm, where are my back up disks. Wait, what's a backup? <G> Found IGM Smush on HD. Hey, this is cool! Forgot about it. Need time! I'll get it done someday.... So many possibilities and ideas, and no time. Same with you, I'm sure. Ah well. May 13 MAY 13!!! Holy cow! Where does the time go? A whole month has passed since I wrote on this last. Been bizzy trying to be an ANSI artist. Registrations and e-mail on the game weirdly sporatic. Everybody registers and sends e-mail in spurts. Serious! I'll go 2-3 days with- out a peep, then WHAMMO, everybody is back again. Moon fluctuations? Very strange stuff. But, things are looking very cool, and very positive. Can't wait for Ixtapa. April ? Found out that 32 bit version is bogus. It's got all the code, but ain't 32 bit. Gotta compile under 32 bit compiler. Hain't got. Get one from friend, but it doesn't like win3.1 under os/2 Warp Connect. Bah! Someday, it will go true 32 bit. April 13 Fixed IGM problem stemming from new command line pars- ing in game. Weird stuff, but it works. Continued beta test. April 12-13 IGM's not working in 32 bit version. Stumped. Leave the house, play 2 hours of basketball, drink heavily, then eat like pig. Fall asleep on floor of friends house, wake up, hoping it ain't a school day.... Do mail, up reg's, drink water, water, water. Create personal web site: Title: Spinach Quiche Sucks. Check it out: http://www.starlink.com/~alanen update: Change that to: http://www.inficad.com/~alanen April 11 Dan at the Information Exchange sets me up for beta testing. What a nice guy. Tried to telnet in, but bbs I'm using for telnet is garbage, can't upload files. (65 bps, recursive send on packets, 20 hours estimated time on upload.) ??? Sure, they say it's _my_ modem set-up. Hmmm, called 36 bbs's today, no problems over there....<G> Ah well, called Dan's bbs normal mode, 1.5 minute upload. Hey, must be my modem...:) Dan's BBS: (great place) 770-957-3325 telnet: thix.com April 9 Added 23 places for ANSI art in the game. Decided to let 3rd parties make them, or create some later. See ansi.lst for details. April ??!?? Early am, figure that I should get some sleep as I am a student and have school soon. 4 hours? uh oh.... April ????! Banged out 3/4ths of Smush! an IGM today. Looking really cool. Now where do I stuff an arcade game in this game? Nearly finished it, and decided to give 32 bit SDL another go. Wrote letter to Brian Pirie, maker of Opendoors. Think before write...think before write. Hmmm. Finish doors before release...finish doors before release. Gotta settle down and make sure stuff is done! Letter to Brian stated problems I was having with his code. Sent it off. Proceeded to find out after letter was sent that his code was beautiful. My compiler settings were ugly. Hmmm. My fault. Ooops. Recompiled everything 32 bit. Now where can I find a fresh chicken, I mean an unwary sysop with WC!5 to test this on... <G> Need bbs software, need big narly computer to drive it with, need Bill Gates' wife and money. Hmmmm....don't need his software. Ugh. April ????! Banged out IGM for SDL. IGM name is Profile. Went berzerk and coded the thing in 3 hours. Probably looks like it too....<G> Heck, it's an IGM. April !???! Lost track of time. Going bananas. Ate a few as well. Planning trip to Ixtapa, Mexico for relaxation. Hmmm, maybe I'll let the insurance co. pay for it....hehehehe. Waiting for check to repair car. Car or Mexico....Hmmmm. That dent would look pretty neat-o from the beach. I'd just have to look at it through the bottom of a Dos XX bottle...it wouldn't look bad. But, couldn't see the car anyway, as I will be way down in the middle of that wonderful country. March 29 Had fun at the game. Got rammed by a wacko real estate lady in a '96 Mercedes. She blamed it on me. Hmmm, how does the rear end of my car hit the front of her car if I'm going 15 mph _forward_ in a parking lot??? Decide to read logic problems to see if my logic is screwy....<G> March 29 Head for spring training b-ball game after school. Free tickets given by friend. Lady friend comes into town, I'm designated driver. Go to game, drink cokes. Wish I had a brew. :( Decide that weekend will be a party. Realize I said that last week, but answered 3000 pieces of mail and gave away 200 reg keys instead. Bah! Set mind on tall draught of Guinness. Revamp mind picture to large pitcher of Guinness. Revamp mind picture to _many_ large draughts from _many_ large pitchers of Guinness! Realize that I can only afford cheap watery beer. Decide to cry in it instead at first opportunity. Realize it's been weeks since last beer. Make dinner of gooey Ramon noodles. Eat some, give rest to dog. Dog looks at me disgustedly and leaves the room. Dream of real food. Look at dog interestedly. Dog stew? Dog kabobs. Hmmm. Dog burgers.....Large pieces of shredded dog roast on Ramon noodles? Hmmmm. Hope a registration letter comes in soon. Running out of pets....<G> March 28 Realize that Franz is a genius. Fixed share violations by removing a dos call. Recompiled with Opendoors 6. New version has _better_ internal comm routines and all kinds of stuff I don't even know about! Released sdloco20.zip. Promise myself that I will _not_ release another version until the 32 bit version is ready. Get free tickets to Sun's game, and worry about program through the whole game. Decide to drink lots of brew tomorrow. March ? Released sdl147ck.zip with fix for slow machine lock ups. Stuffed wrong order form in zip file. Uh oh. People are gonna wonder why they want to register Figgit in place of Stardock Loco, and Figgit isn't even public yet...No one knows that Figgit is a cool multi configuration door system that takes care of all your problems with doors and puts them into one really big problem. <G> Decide to ax Figgit. March ? Talked with Franz (Author of NY2008 door game). Puts idea in mind that share problems could be dos calls. Lock up problems could be od_kernal() calls needed in loops for slower machines. Ignored him... March ? Bunch of e-mails on share violations and lock ups. Revamp idea that share violation is Bill McGate's fault. Own up to my programming faults.... March 8 Re-released game with multi configuration option to allow multiple node configs. Same game. March 3 Banzai'd the game all over arizona. March 1 Figured share violation problem was fault of WIN95. Released game. sdloco14.zip (Dumb...dumb...<G>) February Beta beta beta. Jumped up and down on disk containing game. Going bananas. Player list looks like it's been run over by cement truck. Fixed bug that corrupted the player list. BAD BUG! BAD BAD BAD!! January Beta beta beta....Started wide beta in middle of month. December 17-30 Went crazy trying to program game and finish it over school break. Decided that it was Loco (Crazy), and I was batty as well. Finished up game. Added own personal ansi screens. Sleep-program-eat-sleep-program eat-program-sleep-eat-eat-program-sleep-program-program cycle continues for days. Wake up at 3 am and fix bug that miraculously was solved in dream. Worked too! Game forms into a pretty good door. December 15-17 Found a friend that had bbs. Finished prototype. Game works after a few days of fiddling. Game is named Stardock 10. Game stinks at this point. December 13 Realized I was trying to re-invent the wheel. Searched local bbs's for comm libraries. Found Opendoors 5.0, converted printf's to od_printf's. Now they go over the phone line!! Yeeehaw! Tried to connect door game over computers without help of bbs. Doesn't work... December 4-12 Began programming serial comm library. Read mega books. Start looking at ASM (assembler). Vomit. December 3 Realized that printf statements don't run well over telephone lines. Kick C book around room. December 2, 1996 Learned C printf statement. Decided to write a door game.