Who is Shane Monroe?

I could have sworn I heard this name in the Blitz Community somewhere. Anyway, I was looking on the 'net to see if someone had done a 'Dino Eggs' remake and supposedly someone named Shane Monroe, via 'Dark Unicorn Productions' did.

Couldn't find the game itself anywhere, though, although it was supposed to be done by 2002...

Russell

http://www.google.fi/search?hl=fi&q=Who+is+Shane+Monroe&meta=

http://www.monroeworld.com/



:)

Shane Monroe used to run www.blitzbasement.com which has long since closed down following a clash of egos between the aforementioned Mr Monroe and numerous other people.

He also used to run an IRC chatroom on DalNet which was associated with the site. There was some altercation over that too, but it isn't my place to say.

Shane Monroe also did the original version of the Blitz Basic docs, ran the website for years and was generally a driving force behind Blitz on the internet in the early days.

If Guildhall and Mark Sibly had been left on their own, Blitz Basic would never have been such a success to begin with.


Andy

He did, and they were lousy. Everyone's biggest gripe with Blitz in the early days was its poor documentation.

Blitz Basic was already successful on the Amiga and had been for almost a decade. BlitzPC was just a continuation of that.

When Shane Monroe started getting out of his pram at the slightest little thing, the Blitz community divided (although hugely in favour of this site) and a lot of people disappeared. Shane Monroe later tried to set up blitzprofessional.com as a rival to this site (and listening to rumours that the next version of blitz (which became BlitzMax) was going to be called Blitz Pro), which was nothing more than a display of cock-waving and elitism. Newcomers to Blitz were openly unwelcome there. he tried to get ahead of the game and put one over on BRL, only they decided on calling it BlitzMax instead and the whole thing blew up in Monroe's face. His site died off very quickly and now Blitz doesn't even get a mention on his own site at www.monroeworld.com.

See how loyal he is?

I wish he was still doing this. The B2D docs were awesome, they fully explained everything, gave comprehensive examples. Much of Shane's work on the B2D docs were integrated into the B3D & B+ Docs.

With BMax being the first product to not include any of Shane's work on the docs, its easy to see how crucial his contributions were when it comes to the documentation.

Exactly!

Shane was also the official distributor of B2D in the USA, and Canada, etc. He also provided a lot of tech support for B2D and went out of his way to help folks with B2D.

At the time Guildhall did nothing to promote, sell and support B2D in the USA.

And in the beginning Mark was running the forums off of a freebie service. Shane's official Blitz support forums were the first professional forums the Blitz community ever had.

Shane got a lot of flack for publicly knocking DB. Shane (like everybody else) eventually ran into problems with Guildhall\Idiotcon and they officially parted ways.

After the split with Guildhall, Shane took down the Guildhall related site and put up blitzpro as an alternative, providing support for users and a guildhall free environment.

Newcomers WERE welcome and there was even a forum for newbies. Newbies were not flamed there like they were (and still are) at the forums run by Mark.

Guildhall being bitter over the split started their own Blitz community site. Their community site quickly went under as most people were using BlitzPro or BlitzCoder.

After their new community site went under, the Idigicon vs. BRL problem started. After being banned from the BRL forums, Idigicon then partnered with Blitz Coder and tried to further split the community, while illegally selling BRL products. (At least Pyxia did a better job of stopping Idigicon from illegally selling IBasic & IBasic Pro after being shafted by Idigicon.)

Although we can appreciate your desire to stir up trouble, this is a lie. Shane uses Blitz and doesn't hide the fact and promotes it. Taken from Shane's site under recommended software:



Shane is still one of the most loyal Blitzers.

I've just worked out who you are.

I'm Shane Monroe.... and so is my wife...

Shane Monroe is a small off-duty czeckslovakian traffic warden.

>I'm Shane Monroe.... and so is my wife...

Oh no, I'm Shane Monroe.... and so is my wife...

;)

Andy

i'm Sparticus... errr, i mean Shane Monroe...

:)

--Mike

Shane Monroe? Never heard of him.

I'm gonna cry in a manly way if someone else says "No, I'm Shane Monroe" ... wimper.

So does Kuron = Shane? or just Shane Fan?

Whatever happened to him? I remember him A LONG time ago.

Did he just slowly stumble into a dark cave far away from the Blitz Community?

Shane has a knack of building things up to a rather large level... only to get ticked off at someone or bored and take his ball and go home. He's done it plenty of times. He had one of the largest (if not the largest) emulation sites at one time as well. He shut that down for no other reason than ego as well.

How sad.

I believe his username on these forums is DarkUni, and anybody whose middle name is Raistlin has to be pretty cool.

Don't listen to them, I am the real Shane Monroe...

lol@wedoe

someone should do a history of blitz !!! :)))

Sir Galahad voice....
How do you know so much about Shane Monroe?

Am I mistaken in thinking the Blitz2D docs where written largely by George Bray, and that Shane Monroes contribution was largely on the 3D part?

As for having a fallout with Guildhall/Idigicon, isn't kindof a sport around here?

I think so... Blitz, ibasic, hopefully cobra... I think idigi probably has tightened up their contract though if I were a betting man. :)

Mmm, this almost works:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010405073409/http://www.blitzbasement.com/

Just a reminder to people that personal attacks are not welcome on this site.