Are bees considered bugs?
I've been busy as a bee killing bugs the past few days. EverQuest has seen the brunt of my attention, and Glenda and I have been hammering on it pretty hard. It's still got one or two whoppers, but on the whole it's really starting to shape up now. Just in time too - Glenda's last full programming day is Friday. If I knew I never had to worry about bugs in EQ ever again after 48 hours, I'd be falling-down-drunk with glee. Envy, thy name is Brad.
After 5 gold master candidates, it looks like Scholastic Math Missions 3-5 is really GM now. You'd think that might be some kind of record for a Westlake title, but you'd be wrong. Age of Empires 2 clocked in with 7 final candidate CDs. Krenek was the lead on that bad boy, so he had the joy of putting all those CDs together. Suckah! I guess I shouldn't get too cocky - Math Missions K-2 is expected to wrap up here shortly and then the GM parade begins anew with it. I'm cautiously optimistic.
I thought I had an Alice patch ready to go, but it turns out that it has all kinds of issues loading the Fortress of Doors level. I have no idea what broke, so back into the garage it goes. No telling when I'll get a chance to look at it again.
I'm pretty happy with the Civ3 1.29f patch, so I'm probably going to try and steal a few hours to fix the one last bug I know about and send it off to MacSoft. Unfortunately, I haven't had much time for the 1.29 editor, so if you apply the 1.29f game patch, the 1.21 editor will break. If the editor is more important to you than the 1.29 patch, then avoid the 1.29 update until a new version of the editor is released. That's likely to be quite a ways in the future, the way my current workload is looking.