Timeline of XEvil

Date Version Platform Notes
12/93 - - Steve Hardt begins programming XEvil as a way to teach himself C++.  Ninja is the first character added to XEvil.
7/26/94 XEvil 1.0 UNIX Released to M.I.T. students via Project Athena, the M.I.T. campus network.
2/23/95 XEvil 1.3 UNIX Available to the world on ftp.x.org.
7/26/95 - - Original mailing list primarily for M.I.T. students, xevil@mit.edu.
8/23/95 XEvil 1.4 UNIX Simple Network play by opening multiple X Windows
8/25/95 - - Original XEvil web site created.
1/20/96 - - First Annual XEvil Tournament at M.I.T.
6/96 - - Michael Judge begins port of XEvil to Windows.
6/4/96 XEvil 1.5 UNIX Walker is introduced
9/13/96 - - Web site moves to new home at www.xevil.com
10/1/96 XEvil 1.5.1e UNIX More extendable version of XEvil.
11/5/96 XEvil 2.0 alpha Win95/NT First windows release.
12/25/96 XEvil 2.0 beta 1 Win95/NT -
1/22/97 - - Second Annual XEvil Tournament at M.I.T.
4/12/97 - - New mailing list, xevil@lists.best.com, low-bandwidth, primarily for informing users of new releases
6/6/97 XEvil 2.0 beta 2 UNIX Drugs and Dogs introduced.
6/29/97 XEvil 2.0 beta 3 Win95/NT New in beta 3.
8/26/97 XEvil 2.0 beta 4 UNIX Horizontal movers, cooperative mode.
11/13/97 XEvil 2.0 beta 4b UNIX (Linux only) -
1/2/98 XEvil 2.0 beta 5 Win95/NT and UNIX True TCP/UDP/IP networking with a client-server model.
6/23/98 XEvil 2.0 beta 6 Win95/NT and UNIX New in beta 6.
10/10/98 xevilsrc101098.zip Win95/98/NT and UNIX XEvil 2.0 source release.
xevildev mailing list.
XEvil Developer's Page
12/17/98 XEvil 2.0 beta 7 Win95/98/NT and UNIX New in beta 7.
1/20/99 XEvil 2.0 Win95/98/NT and UNIX Woohoo! We shipped it.
3/5/99 XEvil 2.01 Win95/98/NT and Red Hat Minor tweaks.
1/18/2000 XEvil 2.02 Source only XEvil becomes GPL
7/26/2000 XEvil 2.02 XEvil 2.02 binaries on xevil.com Official 2.02 release
3/23/2003 XEvil 2.02r2 Source only Compiling support for gcc 3.2

Steve Hardt
last modified 2/21/2000