News from 13 October 2001

[randi]

zdoom.notgod.com is fast again. You can thank Brian Nelson for that. He runs this server out of his own pocket and was generous enough to start hosting ZDoom just a few months after I started work on it. So even if you don't care about the speedup, he still deserves thanks for hosting me.

To celebrate, here is a special version of TiMidity++ designed to work with the Windows version of ZDoom. I said I would release this earlier on the messageboard but have only now gotten around to it. I will try and find my modified source code for it later. Unfortunately, as my monitor is currently broken (burning smells are not a good thing coming from your monitor), the only way I can get at the files on my computer is over a network connection. I think the source is on my NTFS partition, but I have my computer running under Windows 98 right now, so I cannot reach it.

That brings up my other news. Since my monitor is broken, I am trying to decide whether I want to spend my money on a nice big 21" monitor or if 19" is big enough. While I try to decide, I have copied the ZDoom files onto my recently acquired notebook, so I can continue to work on it, but it's just not the same as working with a desktop system.

My notebook has Windows ME on it, and I cannot figure out how to use the Dvorak layout in the MS-DOS windows. Help! My productivity is seriously hampered whenever I have to try and use the Qwerty layout at the command line when I'm so used to using Dvorak everywhere else.