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While I agree with most of your post, I'm not sure where your SPISPOPD info comes from. The name came from a joke on a newsgroup discussion about Doom's name in the weeks before its release in 1993, while the Smashing Pumpkins formed in 1988, five years earlier. In fact they even added samples from Doom in one of their songs in reference to the joke. http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/SPISPOPD http://www.trilobite.org/spispopd/

I would start with this excellent free tutuorial: Game Programming with C++ It's specifically written for people who don't have access to a computer that want to create C++ games.

Unlike the BFG from Doom, which basically eliminated all enemies nearby

For the curious, the detailed working of BFG 9000 in Doom 1/2 is actually surprisingly complicated, and allows for many interesting tricks. Even though the most common effect - especially when the player is not actively trying to exploit the mechanics - is indeed "eliminating most enemies nearby".

Jar Jar finally, he is one of us my Lord.. He is deep within the influence of the Dark Side

Time to get tough...This is a good start

Yeah, and this will finish them off. I mean, we need to get tough, after all.

Hmm, I doubt it's "Kicks Fucking Arse", since IDKFA gave Keys & Full Ammo, as opposed to IDFA which only gave Full Ammo.

Btw, here's a page with further explanations about idchoppers, iddt, and idspispopd. Scroll down to the bottom.

looks to me like you are a directionless loser who after 30 years of losing, found another of your ilk.

you didn't marry a woman, you married a sessile cock ornament.

idspispopd -- named for that 'smash' hit Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles of Putrid Debris, demo here

Just goes to show you, a low user number doesn't automatically signify brilliance or even the vaguest awareness of PC trends.

This was a cheat code in the original PC DOOM.

MarkGriz = +1, funny
tevman = -1, redundant
Iffy = -1, clueless

Anyone who doesn't know the legend should go read it now, it's an interesting look at days gone by, when people still paid attention to USENET. ;)

Anyone remember the Chex cereal version of Doom where you went around with a spoon or other weapons and killed the "squishy" enemies? Screenhots here

If you were on Usenet, waiting for Doom to arrive, you got bored. SPISPOPD was the result.
A tribute site Richard Ward created... On the net, nothing ever dies, it's enshrined forever by someone.

Seth (yes, that original idspispopd cheatcode/FAQ guy)

But the truly l33t were all over Smashing Pumpkins into Small Piles of Putrid Debris (aka SPISPOD), which essentially "[was] to DOOM what DOOM was to Pong."

J

The whole scoop is here: http://www.trilobite.org/spispopd/.

Quoting from the page:

S.P.I.P.O.P.D. stands for Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris. This whole thing got startted in late 1993 in the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action when anticipation for the as yet to be relased game DOOM had reached a fever pitch.

Tired of all the DOOM related posts someone made the comment that all this buzz would not exist if DOOM had a more mundane name like Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris. Within hours this was contracted to SPISPOPD and all hell broke loose.

comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action was soon flooded with ever increasingly wild posts about this fictional game, much to the aggravation of those who had complained about all the DOOM posts.

Taking the bull by the nose Seth Cohn created the Official SPISPOPD FAQ and a small legend was born. When DOOM finally did come out SPISPOPD was almost forgotten, but that's another story.

Dave Taylor of id Software caught wind of the SPISPOPD madness and added the cheat code "idspispopd" to DOOM (renamed "idclip" in DOOM 2).

So there you have it.