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Revision as of 15:33, 2 December 2014

Frans P. de Vries is a webmaster, programmer, and system administrator who was an early anchor of the Doom community from its inception in 1993 up to 1997.

Community activities

Frans was a founder and maintainer of the Usenet rec.games.computer.doom hierarchy of news groups. Aside from other basic administrative duties, he authored the RGCD FAQ and Other 3D Games FAQ spelling out policies and conventions governing the groups' usage.

Frans was the primary maintainer of the idgames archive from 1995 to 1997, and was occasional backup to Ty Halderman during the latter's periods as maintainer. On the side, he also administrated the non-Doom related /idgames2 (for Quake) and /unreal archives.

He was a major contributor to Hank Leukart's Doom FAQ.

Frans was instrumental in obtaining permission for release of the alpha and beta versions of Doom to the idgames archive, where he appears as their uploader.

Utilities

Frans is the author of the following editing utilities:

  • DooM PostScript Maps Utility (DMPSMU) - Allows creation of a PostScript file containing the map of a Doom level.
  • DooM TeXtures LiSter (DMTXLS) - Generates cross-reference lists of used textures in Doom engine games.

Other notable activities

Frans was a co-founder of the now defunct 3dgamers.com site, which amongst other games, had significant Doom coverage. He is also a programmer, system administrator, and former editor for Blue's News.

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