XStep DWI Maker
Hello. Until 2004, this page was the home of XStep, a DWI Creator for programs like Dance With Intensity and Stepmania. XStep is no longer supported, but the final version is still available:
Please be sure to read the README file. It explains a lot. This program is, of course, released without warranty.
Why not open source?
I've got a few requests to open source the code of XStep. And I gave it serious consideration – after all, "XStep 2" had been promised here for a while, and if I didn't have the time to work on it, why deny someone else the starting code?
Here's why: XStep's code sucks. I don't use that word lightly: this is my own work we're talking about, after all. But it was started several years ago, and I've learned a lot since then. Techniques that seemed logical at the time — like the .xstep file format literally being a dump of everything in the program's memory — I now realise were pretty dumb.
I've learned a lot since then. But that doesn't change the fact that the best way to make a new XStep would be to start over again.
So thank you to the DWI/Stepmania community for the many years of support and emails. It's been fun.
— Thomas Scott, April 2004
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