doom3do

Huge loss to the community. She was, by all accounts, an amazing programmer. I remember when she uploaded the source code of her Doom 3DO port she indicated that she had to write her own string lib because the base one sucked: > I had to write my own string.h ANSI C library because the one 3DO supplied with their compiler had bugs! string.h??? How can you screw that up!?!?! They did! I spent a day writing all of the functions I needed in ARM 6 assembly. https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do I can't even imagine the level of skill required to just say, "Fine, I'll write MY OWN string lib!" while chasing a deadline. As an aside...I wonder what will happen to her personal artifacts. There was a media blitz awhile back when Tim Cain said he doesn't have the original source code to Fallout because he was "ordered to destroy it" by Interplay wh

She also somehow pulled off the port of Doom to the hopelessly underpowered hardware of the 3DO in just a few weeks, after others had tried and failed for much longer than that. The final release had a reduced viewport and a bad framerate, but the background music was great (recorded with a band and stored as audio tracks on the game CD). https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do Also, 62 years is much too young! And one month from diagnosis (because of being short of breath) to dying is really rough - although there's a lot of progress on cancer treatment, some forms have symptoms at such a late stage that they're unfortunately still a death sentence...

The source for 3DO DOOM, if anyone wants to take a crack at making it better: https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do

Here are the photos from the FMV part that was planned for the game: https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do/commit/f3ea056bc9659bc...

This commit from 29 days ago added a ton of behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot for the full motion videos which was going to be included in the game and which were famously cut [1]. https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do/commit/f3ea056bc9659bc... [1] - https://www.timeextension.com/features/the-true-story-behind...

A third renderer that exists is the assembly for the official Jaguar port. I think Carmack wrote it? It's staged, like a really old C compiler, because the Jaguar's faster processors could only execute programs from a tiny scratchpad memory. https://github.com/Arc0re/jaguardoom/blob/master/r_phase1.ga... I think Rebecca Heineman ported this back to C for the official 3DO port. https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do/blob/master/source/pha...

Maybe not once it becomes an ancient relic: https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do

Some funny things in there: switch (gamemap) { case 24: /* Secret level? */ nextmap = 4; break; Source: https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do/blob/master/source/gam...