March 28, 1989
Stayed at the office till 7:30, then came back after dinner and worked on Level 1 till midnight. I’m burned out.
My most concrete achievement today was to print out the entire source code – all 1000 pages of it.
Doug Greene is reluctant to take on the MS-DOS port (despite my subtle, repeated mention of the words “BIG HIT” and “ROYALTY”), but he recommended his friend Jim St. Louis, an “old-time hacker” who’s worked for Atari and Lucasfilm.
Avril gave me a picture. It’s really quite beautiful; it’s got that magical Arabian Nights storybook feel to it. Ed Badasov, Brian and Greg Hammond all flipped over it. It’ll lose a lot in the transition from super hi-res to double hi-res, but I can use the original in the MS-DOS and Amiga versions. It took her 29 hours: $1,015.
Spend the next couple of weeks getting what I have cleaned up, fine-tuned, and bug-free, before I start adding new features (the opening sequence animation, the stair-climbing, the white mouse, etc.)
My mind is spinning ahead to completion… packaging… conversions… sequels… It’s incredibly distracting.
Focus.
Finish.
Spend the next couple of weeks getting what I have cleaned up, fine-tuned, and bug-free, before I start adding new features (the opening sequence animation, the stair-climbing, the white mouse, etc.)
