DOOM 3DO: Or How I Survived Hell - Burger Becky 

Yes. She had incredible stamina, fortitude and intelligence to get it done. Not many people could or would have done the same.

For real, it took me two weeks just to build a basic game collection app in my Android class. I can't imagine refactoring an entire game for a different console.

She is really great!

Father.

We agree!

I'm pretty sure she did basically every port of that game. I know for sure she did the SNES port of it

Sometimes she (and other developers) concurred with Carmack himself for the ports. Heinemann got help by him in the last moment for this port.

So true.

She is a great programmer and a great speaker that has accomplished a lot of things in the vintage computer gaming realm.

She is, saw her interview on Retro Man Cave recently and "fallen in love", thinking she was so awsome in her teens, and then i reed story ;) Worked with woman sharing simmilar story also one of smartest i ever meet.. for that reason. I can't be less cryptic (research). Hint she worked for Amazon and created unoficial group inside called Glamazon..

She is a great speaker and we will definitely invite her back for a show at some time in the future.

Yes. She is a great person. I was so glad to meet her in person. We will definitely invite her back some day to our show!

Yes. She is really a wonderful story teller. And she has such wonderful stories too!

LOL! A fun time for everyone. A great speaker in case!

@@vcfederation In my discharge I never said CPU, I was referring to the 64 bit blitter chip. But for sure that's not even a full 32 bit system

Our pleasure! Glad that you enjoyed it!

She was truly a strong and smart person to have survived those experiences!

Yes. I am amazed at her programming prowess as we well as her fortitude and intelligence in navigating the craziness of dealing with management, etc.

I'm Still Stuck On Scratch, To Me, The Port Is Really, Really Impressive!

Well said! The story that she told was very entertaining!

Exactly!

Wow! What did he do?

@@vcfederation Uhh to put it lightly, back in 2017 he used to run a kids music school but decided at two points to get a little too _engaged_ with the kids, and now he's set for jury trial next month.

​@@naverick22 I asked Becky on her thoughts about Randy Scott's criminal activity and she said she hopes Randy would rot in jail. And it's sad and disgusting to note that on a recent Doom 3DO review video a number of users, mostly edgelord trolls, picked on Becky just because of her being transgender.

He's not in jail, he free. He was given a 3 years and 8 months sentence, but he had 'credit' for 2,496 days in custody and never went to jail as the 'credit' covered the sentence given.

Burger Becky is a real inspiration and has a great story!

That's what makes vintage computers so special and keeps people reliving it and telling stories about it and still using these machines!

More than agree. Unfortunately that golden info is nowadays being overlooked all the time. Today's software industry has largely lost all their professionality, and more often than not, the "modern" software runs with awfully poor performance even on modern hardware due to horrible bloat.

@@TheSimoc Everything is a fork of a fork of a fork of a front-end, with 2 compatibility layers in between so that nobody has to spend time learning anything when they can just write code and throw it into a conversion service.

I'm 23 yo (at the time of writing this comment) and I love learning about how old school games came into play, when I learned how DOOM and Quake revolutionised the video gaming genre, I just couldn't stop learning about the people who worked on them overcoming the technological hurdles in insane ways. John Carmack, John Romero, Rebecca Hienneman, Randy Linden, Ken Silverman and Tim Sweeny are some of the people I'll always have upmost respect for.

Interesting.

He pleaded guilty in April of this year and was given a really stupidly low 3 year and 8 month sentence (one of the kids he sexually abused was only 5). However, he had 'credit' for 2,496 days in custody and that covered the punishment. So he's out and free.

​@@sperrinEven then he had to register as a sex offender for the rest of his miserable life.

@@blakegriplingph But that is no substitution for a proper punishment. Sexually abused a -year-old, out free as he had served time in credit and just has to declare that he is a peado. He got off lightly.

She really is an amazing speaker!

Glad that you liked the video!

The hallmark of a great speaker is that they are always entertaining no matter how many times they give a talk!

Yeah. It would be a great game!

We agree!

Thanks for sharing those links!

We love her too! Great speaker. We will have her come back again soon!

Great, entertaining stories!

Glad that you liked her talk!

She is one of the best storytellers!

No volunteers available to run around with the microphone. We are a group of volunteers. We are not paid to do this. We rely on the available volunteers to do what we can. Are you offering to volunteer?

@@vcfederation thats..understandable. don’t even live in the same country but i definitely would😬. Great job on this events

Yeah. That's for sure!

Absolutely!

@BlackBlur888: She is wonderful!

@armachineuk: So true. Developers are human after all and need not only physical rest, but "brain breaks". It's a well understood idea.

She is great!

You are very welcome! We love to have new and different speakers with great stories!

That sounds like a terrible process!

Cool!

She always does a great presentation! Very polished speaker!

Absolutely!

That's for sure!

Yeah!

would massively increase the games filesize and 3DO video decoding sucked

You should send Burger Becky that question. I'm sure that she would be happy to answer it!

@mopeybloke: Very good question. I will ask her the next time that I speak with her.

LOL!

@jjstraka1982: Thanks for your comment!

We are glad that you enjoyed it!

Not well known before, but much more well known now!

Yes! After all it is a Vintage Computer Festival!

LOL!

You can, on a potato from 2005 onward

@@meanmole3212 late 90s

@@kraftwerklover69 if 486 was considered potato, sure. 386 is stretching the word "run".

Not in 1995.

She is a really great speaker with lots of great stories!

We agree!

She is really an amazing speaker and I love to hear her stories!

She really has an awesome story!

The codebase was based on the SNES version where all the side sprites were removed due to space reasons. I wanted to put that back but I wasn’t given the budget to have the new hi res enemy art created for enemies backsides, the shipped with the art as is

The codebase was based on the SNES version where all the side sprites were removed due to space reasons. I wanted to put that back but I wasn’t given the budget to have the new hi res enemy art created for enemies backsides, the shipped with the art as is. So. No tech reason. Budget reason.

@@RebeccaHeineman THANK YOU for answering that! So if I read that correctly, then a compatibility mode with _ye olde louuer-rez artuuork_ COULD HAVE featured all the partial-turn sprites, but perhaps shipping essentially a two-in-one version of the port probably also would have blown the budget. And I suppose we can blame the SNES port guys, because their ambition to go "more pixels = more better" created a trade-off that bumped against space constraints, which would ALSO have meant there would not have been space to additionally include all the lower-rez original art assets also: If there's not enough space for a few more hi-rez sprites, there's not enough space for a whole duplicate (albeit low-rez) set of sprites either. Honestly, as a (then-)gamer, I would have preferred the original sprites _(esse quam videri)_ both in the SNES port (which I however never owned) and the Mac port, but at least I understand now why the hi-rez assets lacked some sprites and why the original assets weren't included. Btw., new ports are STILL coming out in Current Year: ICYMI, James Howard recently released a CGA 8088 port of the game. Yes, really.

Yeah. It certainly was!

She is awesome!

Incredible talent and incredible storytelling!

@dmitrykim3096: Unfortunately you are correct.

I don't understand. You liked the question?

@@vcfederationI was going backwards to listen to a previous part and I set that time stamp so I could get back to where I was watching easily

Like a bookmark

@orangy57: She's more comfortable doing talks without slides. She has had a lot of experience so she doesn't need nor want them.

This is a talk by Burger Becky about her coding Doom for the 3DO. It was presented live at VCF West 2022.

It was truly a fun game!

Она создала Doom для 3DO. Она Бердж Бекки, a.k.a. Ребекка Хейнеман

doom портировал на 3do билл хайнеманн а создавал джон кармак и никакой ребекки тогда не было эта женщина самозванка пусть возьмет имя билл и постригется

@@ВадимБеляев-щ3д Билл и Ребекка Хейнеман, вроде как, один и тот же человек

а@@okroshka7​

How so?

Она действительно!

She is female who used to be male.

@@vcfederation it means mentally ill person

@@vcfederation you cannot change your sex, mate. You're born with it.

@@CCave-wj6xy male but fools like to fool themselves.

She is a transgender woman. She is someone that was born male but took steps in her life to become more feminine in various ways and live as a woman. There is literally nothing wrong with this. It might confuse someone that is comfortable in their birth body, but it's none of your business.

No. She is a woman. Look under the section for personal life: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Heineman

She doesn't sound like Chris Chan at all.

@@vcfederation He actually kinda resembles Chris too.

I mean they're probably both autistic to some degree

Much better spoken than Chris, I see what you mean though lol

@@plaguis1391 I said he sounds like chris, not he talks like Chris.

Nope. Not any more. It's a chick.

@@vcfederation Nope, I clocked it a mile away. Definitely a dude.