Stardock Loco History File and Updates. Why, what, and when. Definitely not a must read....:) Starts at the bottom and goes up to here. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.... 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.... 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. 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...) 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.