Minor questions about Boom

[Jakub Majewski]

I kinda wish that DW had a shoutbox, or a thread to ask about minor questions regarding Doom. Nonetheless, I've looked at the Doomwiki Boom article...

 

1. The initial release date has no citation. Even if it makes sense, I cannot find a source to that figure. Also, am I really meant to believe that 2.00 was the initial release?

 

2. Out of the five developers of Boom, Jim Flynn, Ty Halderman and Rand Phares are described as deceased. I can't find much info about Lee Killough, so I have no idea how he is doing. Stan Gula doesn't even have an article, and Google provides little info. Should I assume the latter two are alive?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Shepardus]

The initial release being 2.00 could be an attempt to continue the numbering from Doom 1.9.

 

Lee Killough has an account on Doomworld; its only posts are to bring the news of Jim Flynn's passing, but it shows a last visited date of January 11, so it would seem that he's still alive.

[JadingTsunami]

I realize this is somewhat of an old thread, but I found this surprisingly hard to track down, and I do think we are losing some of the traces of this history.

 

However, I found some evidence of that date here:

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/post/854387

 

Doom Wiki in fact lists two different dates for Boom's initial release:

 

Initial release     2.00 (1998-04-17, 25 years ago)
https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Boom

 

vs:
May 27 - Boom is initially released.

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Timeline_of_source_port_releases