Patricia had ported a bunch of DOOM stuff from C to C++ without running the game once. Patricia: "Look at everything I've changed" Me: "Cool, run it and show me" Patricia: "I don't know how to run it" And after all that, only 1 minor thing was broken and easily fixable. I was impressed. - ThreadSky

olafurw.com • 2 days ago

Patricia had ported a bunch of DOOM stuff from C to C++ without running the game once.

Patricia: "Look at everything I've changed"
Me: "Cool, run it and show me"
Patricia: "I don't know how to run it"

And after all that, only 1 minor thing was broken and easily fixable. I was impressed.

Reposted from Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈

I ported DOOM to C++ from C while I had COVID and when I told @olafurw.com he asked me if I had played it, and I went: «no. I only know that it compiles. Tbh I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t crash on startup.»

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adevress.bsky.social•2 days ago

Do you still have the source code somewhere? 🙂

I would be happy to archive it on a public repo.

The doom src code is a beautiful example of how a code can resist (or not) the test of time.

I would be curious to see which one of the C or C++ version can still compile in 10, 20y from now.

olafurw.com•2 days ago

The DOOM satellite code is here: https://github.com/olafurw/opssat-doom

The C++ DOOM project is here: https://github.com/patricia-gallardo/cpp-doom

patigallardo.bsky.social•2 days ago

It was an excellent bug tho. Bugs in games are so much more fun than in other programs. I should check out the code at that commit and make a gif out of it. I feel it reflects a lot of my life 😂

olafurw.com•2 days ago

The DOOM guy started the game and just immediately ran into a wall.

Mood.

patigallardo.bsky.social•2 days ago

It me.

olafurw.com•2 days ago

I was going to use that version on the Satellite but a lot of the changes Patricia made required a new version of a C++ compiler, definitely newer than was supported on the satellite platform.

So I used Chocolate DOOM first for it's simple setup and then doomgeneric later for the customization.

patigallardo.bsky.social•2 days ago

I do have one commit on Chocolate DOOM tho so maybe some of my code ran on a satellite?

olafurw.com•2 days ago

Sadly no, I had to use an older version because the graphics library they are using in the newer ones didn't compile because of missing libs in the OS.

Kinda hard to do `apt update` in space. :P

patigallardo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Smh. We have to place an apt repo server in orbit. The kids need fresh CVEs.

thechrisglass.bsky.social•2 days ago

Those days are the wonders. I rewrote a mobile game to use a new compiler on Android and after like 2 months of work, I sent it to QA and they found nothing. It worked. No one noticed. Except for the technical reasons behind the scenes that required it.

I wanted at least some kind of bug.

olafurw.com•2 days ago

A final semester project I did at uni once was to make a multiplayer game. So me and a few friends made a very simple 2d demolition derby thing.

Then the night before submission I converted the game to 3d by swapping the camera class used and giving some of the walls height.

thechrisglass.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sounds like 3dsen.

olafurw.com•2 days ago

Yeah not far off. I wonder if I can find it, it should be in my old repos.

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