[idsoftware.com] Login name: jcash In real life: John Cash Directory: /raid/nardo/jcash Shell: /bin/csh Last login Thu Aug 1 14:56 on ttyp4 from iddrakken Plan: >>> Quake <<< When in Mesquite... do a work log! 7/1: *work on menus (can you say "total rewrite"?) 7/2: *menus, menus, menus 7/3: *finsihed the menus; let 'em loose for internal testing totally reorganized; easier to figure out new cooler looking font more graphic images for plaques and stuff don't put menus over console text; use a clean console backdrop no more ascii based crappy looking underlines; entry boxes instead much more available without going to console: vid_mode, for example player colors shown on a small player model *don't let a demo change occur while in the menus *remove net_speeds, it's not really there any more *quit taunts *fix bars around clients score on status bar *16550a lost transmit buffer empty interrupts *sometimes processing interrupts from com1 when using com2 *com3/com4 support people can actually understand *failure to init sometimes; use the trick I learned see if anything more can be done about latency get releasable quit taunt and network help box text 7/4: *name and colors didn't always go over to server at startup *interface fixed serial code to new menus *save serial/modem settings *cvar vid_nopageflip was being registered twice *make non-DOS versions work again with all the other changes *merge in Carmack's changes 7/5: *re-enable color when testing video modes *don't execute a stopdemo when there wasn't a demo playing *could sometimes get a demo to start while a game was active *show map names below level select *boxes around all confirmations *kill center text when changing levels/demos *make standard VGA mode 13 be the safe default, the video card in Kevin's machine can't handle 320x200 vesa *add tcp/ip and ipx addresses (if available) to status command's output 7/8: *make dtr drop, pause, raise for modem init only *baud rate translations for modems (14400->19200, 28800->38400) *get latest versions of mpath files *filter modem responses for bad characters (disconnect noise) *remove killserver command; no longer used *say from console *help text for >4 players *return error on null socket 7/9: *update readme 7/10-7/11: *forget to update plan (again) 7/12: *fix modems not initializing/answering (again) *fix timelimit and fraglimit not changing levels *added noexit; kill them if they try to leave *add print of who exited the level 7/20-7/23: *vacation 7/24: *catch up on email, voicemail, and postal mail *fixed reconnect+jump bug on v2 server 7/25: *fixed doing restart on a client would crash the client work on external driver support ------------------------------------------------------------------- John Cash (jcash@idsoftware.com) id Software Technical support: email support@idsoftware.com Latest info on id products: finger help@idsoftware.com Questions about id software: email help@idsoftware.com Official id anonymous FTP site: ftp.idsoftware.com Official id Web site: www.idsoftware.com -------------------------------------------------------------------