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January 2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2002 |
Kaiser's Test Demo
The Outworld has announced the release of Doom 2002 public test #3. This can be located on the Doom 2002 section of the site. The website itself is getting a change a well with Kaiser working on on a new one at present. There is also news of a new website he has in the planning. This however won't show for at least 5 months. Just don't forget to visit The Outworld while you're waiting.
Public Danging
Public D.A.N.G makes it's first update of the new year with The Public Demo Archive of the Non-Gods having its first non-nomonster/contest update in nearly ten months, with 229 demos from eleven players. Check out all the blurb and grab the zip file from Public D.A.N.G.
Nutty Songs On The Move
Looney Tunes Doom has managed to get over some circumstances beyond Looney2ner's control and has moved to the Team DeiM. Check it out.
| Wednesday, January 30, 2002 |
Doom MM
Doom Millennium has got a massive update with news on just about everything including the website itself. Make Lüt happy and go look NOW!
ZXDoom, Shouldn't that be ZX Spectrum?
X-Doom has got news on a new port which is based on the lastest ZDoom source and is called ZXDoom. He is using some Half-Life sources codes for the 3D lights environment, and transparent water. Something Jean-François wants to add is the true room over room, but he does not feel experienced enough to be able to do this. ZXDoom can run some Doom Legacy and EDGE maps and is full Skultag compatible.
| Tuesday, January 29, 2002 |
Doom SDA
Opulent's Speed Demos Archive has updated with entries this time around from Richie Agnew who sent in 4 demos and Mark Thompson sent an Ophase2 speedrun. He also says that RTCW demos are not worth the bother....at least the ones he has seen were not.
jDoom 1.12 Beta 1
jDoom has got news of v1.12 Beta 1, which is an unoptimized debug build. This is to figure out how well the network code is working. There are no 3D models included in this version, and Jaakko says be prepared to 'encounter bugs if not outright crashes'. He also says to make sure you don't overwrite your previous stable version of jDoom.
Doom G-Script
This is a program from GrafSemperLab which is a little like slige. The basics being that it will randomly generate a doom level for you. But this program gives you the choice of different scripts to give your level a different feel each time. It is six megabytes in size and is a shareware program costing $28.00 if you wish to purchase.
Triple Review
GG INC has three reviews in the form of Equinox, Chasm Addon and Brotherhood Of Ruin. There is also news on Caverns of Darkness and a load of other goodies.
Remix In Doom
Pickle_Hammer, who is Newdoom regular, sent us some information on Doom remixes. If your interested in giving these a listen you can find them at Overclocked Remix. The list of tracks is as follows.Doom 'Doomed (E1L8 Boss)'
Doom E1M1
Doom II Monster Condo
Doom II Running From Hell Check it out.
DLW
Doom Legacy Wads has updated. There have been 9 megawads and 13 wads added which includes two fantastic megawads from Ian Wilson, Herian & Herian2. Doom Legacy Wads is now getting full with more than 100 wads and a 1000 maps. Check it out.
Underworld Reviews
Doom Underground has updated with two new reviews. Brikblat and Classic 7 get the once over this with a promised review of BrotherHood of Ruin as soon as it is finished.
DoomarenA Again
Another round of rubbish from that mapping moron. Check out DoomarenA for the latest shot from the Star Trek tc. Plus an idea on how to get those sprites onto the 3d floors. Probably pants anyway.
Doom SDA
Opulent's Speed Demos Archive has updated with more great stuff. There are maxdemos, speedruns demos for the recently released Alien Vendetta. Adam Williamson, Wim Vanrie, Albert Valls and Doug are this updates demo dudes.
| Thursday, January 24, 2002 |
DoomarenA Doings
That pile of rubbish DoomarenA has updated again with a new screenshot. Plus there is news on the Star Trek TC and the announcement of a new project. If you want to vist click HERE. But I wouldn't It's appalling.
Another Redesign
This time the redesign is the hard work of Elbryan42 who's website Elbryan42's Doom Depot has had all the work done to it. There is also a bonus in the form of the Weekly Toon's page. Check out Elbryan42's Doom Depot.
Mr Rocket's Redesign
The Mr Rocket homepage has been redesigned for faster loading and believe me it works. He also mentions that he is going to dedicate a page to Doom III news. Check out Mr Rocket's Megasphere.
Metabolism
Metabolist's Site has updated with the two new reviews. First up is Demon Sanctuary 2 by Kaiser and the second is Thomas Van Der Velden's Revolution.
Shots Up
The Doomers Recess has annoucned that Sam Woodman has finished a new episode 3 level for 2002 'A Doom Odyssey'. Chris has also posted a screenshot of the map. Chris himself has been hard at work and has completed a new level for his episode 1 replacement CH Retro.
| Tuesday, January 22, 2002 |
All Change At DSV
DSV Outworld has changed it's name and is now called The Outworld. His project has also changed names and is called Doom 2002. This will use a modified version of the Legacy engine with the wad implented. This is going to be a complete mod and Doom 2002 public test #3 will be released shortly. Read on at The Outworld.
Zski Doomski
Bad joke I know. But this is just to say that the official Russian Doom site is now available in English. Wooo Hooo. So just click the following link and get connected to the Official Russian Zdoom. In English.
Digestive Wad Lab
The Phobos Wad Lab announces the finishing off of a another map for Vision's Of Eternity. It was originally meant for the position of E1M4. However this has changed for various reasons which are all explained. There is also a screenshot of this plus a bucketload of other info to digest.
New jDoom Soon?
A little birdy told me that with any luck, we should be seeing at least a beta v1.12 of jDoom as early as this coming weekend.
Pablo's Base Map
Pablo's Place has got news on the release of a new map. This was originally for Visions of Eternity but it did not quite fit the bill. So Pablo has released it and a new map will take it's place.
UniDoom Progress
Unidoom has updated with a new poll asking 'Who is the best Doomer on ZDaemon at this moment?' Also there is news that UDM2 has been started and Ralph has also sent in a map for Deathz0r to complete. The map that Deathz0r is making is going well but there is also the Doom Alpha Resource Wad project which is dividing his attention.
40 Skins Up
The Epidermis Emporium has announced that there are another forty new skins. This now brings it up to a total of two hunrded and forty.
Goldeneye, Fixes And Tweaks
Goldeneye Doom2 has had a new update which reports on the new ge64levs.zip. It has some bug fixes and newer textures. There has been a fix to the player start problem in the 'basement' and the 'egyptian temple' level has now been fully fixed. Just to round off this latest release contains mid's not mus files so this should work better with most sound cards.
| Wednesday, January 16, 2002 |
Recess Review
The Doomers Recess has a new review for you all. The level was made by By Jon Washburn and is titled Sacrifice In Blood.
MSA On The Move
MSA Doom has moved to Greensting's Internet Doom Gaming Resource. This is because of problems with Geocities. The project is still going strong the v1.23 version of M-S-A Doom is already underway.
Doomed, To Be Sure
Certain Doom is looking for someone to help them out with some music to replace the tunes that play at the end of each episode. There is a short explanation of each episode to get a feel of what he is looking for and he has also recently made a few changes to the site.
DLW
Doom Legacy Wads has had a bit of an overhaul with a tweak to the design and now wads are limited to 25 per page making the pages quicker to view. There are also some new wads in place so go take a look.
| Tuesday, January 15, 2002 |
XDoom Returns
X-Doom has had another design tweak and is now open for business. There is also news that the ZD3K version démo is almost finished. There are now only two maps left to finish off and modify. This will be slow going though due to studies.
Rocket DM
Mr Rocket has released a new deathmatch level for DoomLegacy called MR.ROCKETS DOOMIFIDE. He has also provided a link to the file as his page takes a while to load. Worth the wait if you have the time though. Due to the way Geocities works we cannot give you a link as it does not work. So if you copy and paste this link into your browser that should do the trick. http://www.geocities.com/mrrocket2000/MRDIFIDE.zip
DeePsea v11.5+
SB Software have released v11.5+ of the popular editor DeePsea. There are many new features in this version including, Direct grayscale editing of ZDoom decals, automatically adjust the floor and ceiling height of Sector when pasting and New option in 11.5+ to permit Patch sizes up to 1024 high. There are a few screenshots and also a complete summery of all the recent changes.
| Saturday, January 12, 2002 |
An Alternative
There is a brand new Alternative Hud Weapons pack out for JDoom. It is available for download at jDoom and can be found in the files section under ressources.
Music, Music, Music
Jamie Robertson has released what he thinks is the sort of music we should have in the new Doom. He describes it as a mix of Quake/Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Unreal. Its 4 megabytes in size and you can catch a hold of it at Jamie Robertson Online.
MSA Doom
MSA Doom has been released. This version will work with ZDoom v1.22 and under. It will not work with Zdaemon or CS-DooM as you will just get 'Illegal Operation' statement. There will be one more version of M-S-A Doom once Zdoom v1.23 gets out the beta stages and the new version will use many of the new features. To cap it all off there is also a new soundtrack to accompany you.
| Thursday, January 10, 2002 |
Espi's News
Espi (who has a new email address at esa.repo@phnet.fi) made an update to his site, which you can also read right here:Haven't made much work with maps lately, but I'm redesigning all the OHAD maps to be compatible with doom2.exe. I'm improving the maps and redoing the game balance too. I put Ruoste on hold, I'm stuck on the second map. Be sure to check Espi's Site for more info on his Doom projects.
Doomfan Terminates
Doomfan let us know that he's planning to create some levels for Doom 2, following the storyline of Terminator 1 & 2. If anyone is interested in helping him with this project, please have a look at his homepage.
| Wednesday, January 9, 2002 |
DeePsea's Tall Order
SB Software, home of Deepsea has posted some screen shots showing tall textures working in doom without having a vertical line showing. It works on many ports but not all. It will be incorperated into ZDoom when the next version is released which the DeeP team hope is soon. The next release of DeePsea (11.5) extends the texture limits to take advantage of this discovery. 11.5 will be released in a few days. Watch this space.
Hexen For Legacy
We had an email arrive from Druid who is putting a team together to work on a project that is going to add hexen support for the legacy engine. He does say that he has the permission of the legacy team. So if you are interested and have any programming skills in C++ emial Druid.
Toby's Temporary Move
Worlds Of Toby.M is the temporary home for the Phobos Wad Lab. There is an update on his main page about Visions of Eternity and here it is:Yesterday I worked a little bit on my Doom project "Visions of Eternity". Well, I only made one room for E1M1, but at least this is something after months of not doing anything. I really want to get ahead with this project. Sadly I'm not into Doom that much right now. I was thinking about cutting VoE down, taking some levels out or merging them together, and releasing a short episode with five levels or so. But I'd rather like to release the whole thing, so I'll try to get my ass to work on the project. There is also a new map released for Doom 2 called Steel Conquerors. This is available from his Doom section.
Screenshots For Untitled
Pablo's Place has made an update with some screenshots of a new map simply called Untitled. I guess it's not really called anything. Even though it is. Just go and look at the pics before my brain explodes.
Pilotbombadier's Problem's
Pilotbombadiers Doom Page reports on some problems that the poor chap is having with his machine. But this does not stop ideas floating around to do with Lock & Load. The first thing that is going to happen is that the pump-action shotgun will be going and the autoshutgun will be in its place. This is to make way for another automatic shotgun, the Pancor Jackhammer. Lots more stuff at Pilotbombadiers Doom Page.
Greensting Gets Prodded
Greensting's Internet Doom Gaming Resource has updated with this:With the recent instability of Doom Connector, I have had several Doomserv users prompt me to run the server. After much prodding by a few I won't mention...The server is up, and you'll need The SERVER file to login. Put in /servers directory. Head aolng to Greensting's Internet Doom Gaming Resource to get the necessaries.
Bone Matches Burn
In his own words there has been a small update over at the Bone Match page in which Viperboy said this:Ok, here's a well needed update.....only prob is that it's a mega mini sized update. Check the screenshot section to see how the new enemy is gonna look. Knows what he is on about does that dude. I would do as he says, you know it makes sense. Go on.
| Saturday, January 5, 2002 |
Polled for a Year
MAZter, the Russian Doom site has got two new polls for you to cast your vote on. The two questions are:1) What Doom/Port do you play now?
2) What kind of Doom weapon do you prefer? What is interesting is that the polls are going to run for a year as the time it finishes is 31 December 2002. So we should get the results New Years Day 2003. See you there then.
Update: I got it wrong. The poll is running for one month and two months. It was late when I did it. MAZter mailed me to say 'You Wrong You Crazy'. In a Nutshell.
Reznor On Doom
Macworld have posted a Q&A with Trent Reznor of NIN. In it he talks a little about his work on Quake and about the upcoming new Doom.Q: After providing the music for Quake, are you scoring any more games?
Reznor: I've been discussing things with Id Software for Doom III. It's not formalized at this point, but it's something I really want to do. When I did Quake, we were still questioning if the audio was going to be streamed off of CD, which if it wasn't was incredibly limiting. But with as interactive as things are now, and as immersive as the engine they've been working on is graphically, and some of the program is so moody; it's like scoring a film. Yet it's much more intense than a film because it doesn't always go the same way, it has to be interactive. Plus the mood of the game is so dark and evil, it's interesting to me. Read the rest of the Q/A at Macworld.
[source=Blue's News]
Vavoom's New Version
A new version of Vavoom hits the shelves so to speak taking the engine up to v1.11.1. This version provides some fixes that were causing problems with weapons and bots. On top of this there is SDL port for Linux by Carsten Schmidt and some documentation on VavoomC scripting language.
Vroom Vroom....Er
Vrooomer has posted some demos on Vrooomer Coda which is his section within the Presage site. Some of these, which are all from the last month, are available at Doom Sda. But not all so get yourself over to Vrooomer Coda.
Leagacy
Doom Legacy has updated with word on the release of the Dos and Linux versions of Doom Legacy 1.32 beta 4. They have also released the source code used to build those versions. The docs are not yet ready, but as you will find posted on the forum, there are some tips for map authors here as well.
GL BSP
Andrew Apted sent us word that Version 1.96 of glBSP the GL-Node builder is now available. It mainly contains small fixes and improvements in the for the windows version. Catch a hold of it here.
| Thursday, January 3, 2002 |
Pablo's Base
Pablo's Place has updated with this information:Progress on the base level has been good. There's not much I can actually say about it than is a base wad. I mean I'm building the level as I go, just making rooms without planning (all my wads were made that way...2 were planned), so I can't give any specific info if I don't have any. I don't know when I'm going to get this wad finished, 4 more weeks, maybe a month...maybe two. I don't know. Screenshots? nah, not today. Maybe on the next update. By the way Pablo has recently moved so don't forget to update your bookmarks.
| Wednesday, January 2, 2002 |
Compet-n 200 Up
Compet-n updated on the last day of last year with a huge compilation of more than 200 demos. Also pages were added to Plutonia cooperative and TNT cooperative.
Legacy
There is a new version of Doom Legacy on the table bringing it up to v1.32 beta 4. This is only for win32 with other versions to follow soon. If you want to know whats new then take a look in the rainbowstar.wad which is included in the zip.
Karthik's Out Of Phase II
Karthik's DOOM Pages have a New Year prezzy for us all in the form of a Out Of Phase II. This is not all as there are two more Winamp Skins - these are Doomtech and Shotgun Dude. Get this and have a look at the New Year Card he made at Karthik's DOOM Pages.
Unidoom First Release?
Unidoom has released UDM1. This has been claimed as the first release of 2002 and has already had some positive feedback. Head along to Unidoom and get yours.
Wim Wanders In
Wim Vanrie has updated his page The Mole's Lair. There is a whole load of stuff to read about so get along there and get reading.
Project Number Five
The 5th Doom Project has updated with word that all episode 1 levels are completed. You can download the installer which includes Setup for jDoom, Doom Legacy, ZDoom, and Doom for DOS. The DOOM.WAD is required for 3rd Party Ports. DOOM.WAD and DOOM.EXE are required for DOOM for DOS.
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