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Most people know that DOOM was written by id Software. This project is not supported by them. csDoom (Client/Server Doom) was written by Sergey A. Makovkin, aka Fly. It was later abandoned, partially due to the immature behaviour of people. There was much potential. The code, however, was buggy. Egos were bloated. Exploits were found and used. IRC channels were taken over. Wish I was there type of stuff.

I discovered csDoom much later than these events happened. Noting the crashy code, immediately I set about patching my own client. Having reported several security problems to NightFang, who was rarely around, I did not get much of a responce or any acknowledgement from him. Reading old logs and post-mortems, I have serious doubts about whether he was one of the good guys, or the bad.

Have never been able to find or contact Fly (update: I have seen and briefly talked to Fly online very recently for a couple of minutes. He is alive and well, and also thinks the bugs should be patched). His site lies deserted, empty. The binaries and sources on that site are old and I have lost count of the problems inherent in his last release. However, the game works. I have now set out to fix and improve the game. However, I do not intend to make any major changes.

csDoom 2005 aims:

1. To patch all critical security flaws
2. To fix lesser cheats and exploits
3. To maintain backward compatibility with 0.7
4. To conserve classic gameplay
5. To improve access to the game
6. To get more people to experience DOOM!
7. To create a node of development communication
8. To gather bug reports
9. To clean-up the game code
10. To provide csDoom continuity
11. To provide csDoom support
12. To add OSX support

Where my loyalties lie:

1. To the game
2. To the code
3. To the authors (id Software, Fly)
4. To all the players
5. To all contributors
6. To the open source community
7. To the public

I am NOT doing this:

1. To compete with ZDoom
2. To settle old scores
3. To add new features
4. To damage anything
5. To confuse people
6. To earn street cred
7. To earn money