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Grelminar - Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:59 am
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The very earliest snapshot I have of the code and notes that eventually became asss is dated November 2, 2000. I started writing it in C++, but switched to C pretty early when I realized I didn't actually know how to use C++.

I made a lot of progress during the following January (winter break of my freshman year of college). The earliest snapshot that bears some resemblance to the current code is from January 14, 2001, almost exactly ten years ago. I attached it for entertainment value. asss was the largest piece of software I'd written, and I was clearly learning as I went along. Some of the old code is pretty embarrassing.

I haven't been involved with subspace in quite a while, but I still follow this forum, and it's really great to see all the activity around asss, even if things move a little slowly at times. asss has been much more successful than I could have hoped ten years ago, and that's mostly due to all of you, who suffered though all my bugs and bad documentation and keep using it and improving it. So to everyone that's been involved with the project over the years, thank you.
Cheese - Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:08 am
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without you this game would have become boring long ago


hurray for grel!

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stag shot - Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:50 pm
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Grel! Man, it has been too long..I recall the early builds of ASSS and remember getting excited about it. I still remember writing a lot of the soccer game code, cant believe it's been that long. I think we ran a test server on the old west coast SSCX box or something.

And yes those early bugs were fun, I can remember a few doozys:
- Packet priority bug causing the infamous disappearing ship. Reliable pkt sequence got irreversibly fubared. I think we logged packets for months trying to find it.

- Double-clutch ball fire, can't recall if it was the same bug as above, but it annoyed PBers for months. Maybe it was another priority issue, I recall numpf berating you for it lol.

The # of hours and megabytes of packet logs was astounding. Good times!

-stag
Grelminar - Thu Apr 21, 2011 1:01 am
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Hey stag, glad to hear from you.

Yeah, once you and numpf started hacking on the ball and soccer code I basically left it to you. As a non-PBer, I missed all the subtle bits that were apparently very important, like some double-clutch thing.

For the first bug, if you mean the "lag coma" bug, that's an understatement. I just checked, and it was in the code from may 2003 to june 2006, over three years. I'd put it in the top five bugs I've had the ever honor of writing (and fixing). And I certainly remember hours of staring at packet dumps trying to figure out wtf was going on. I think I eventually figured out while I happened to be looking at that code for some other reason.

It was all fun, though (or I wouldn't have spent so much time on it).
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