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December 2000
| Sunday, December 31, 2000 |
Five Alive At The Recess
Chris has posted up five reviews in an attempt to catch up on them. Catastrophe, Death Tormention II, Kill Demo, Jail Dm and Ruin Dm. Go read up the reviews at The Doomers Recess
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| Saturday, December 30, 2000 |
Carmack On Doom
John Carmack has replied to a question over at the Slashdot forums on the new Doom. It is to do with the graphics cards needed to run what he calls 'The Next Product' and conformation on Linux.We are still supporting linux.
The only downside of the next product is that initially it will probably only work at full feature level with the Nvidia OpenGL driver, but after the first test gets out (still a very long time in the future), I will jump back in to the driver development to try and bring the other open source drivers up to par.
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Mellow Redesign
Captain Mellow has redesigned Captain Mellow's Pages which he hopes will make a lot of stuff more accessable. Mellow player 3.1 is coming along so well he is thinking of making it v.4. So far it has been successfully tested with MBF & Boom.
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ZDoomGL v0.6 released.
Kodak's Doom Page has updated with the news that ZDoomGL v0.6 has been released. Various bug fixes as well as a textrure misalignment fix has been implemented. You can get it from our own files section Here. The source code is Here. Also the first version of the FAQ has been released.
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Cyber Man Dream's
CyberDreams have a little gift for the new year in the form of Mc2001. It's a small but intense single player level based in the CyberDreams megawad. It contains some new graphics and a boom compatible port is required.
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Team Kill's RoD Demo
Team Kill have announced the release of a demo for RoD. The demo contains two levels along with Some new music, new sounds and new graphics. Also in case you did not know what RoD is about it's where you play Godzila walk around Japan and destroy buildings. Sounds fun. So get it at Team Kill.
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Doom Demonstrations
Opulent Speed Demos Archive has some new demos posted. Chris 'Ryback' Ratcliff sent a recordtime maxdemo for Hell Revealed Map18. Frank 'ZappaZ' Winqvist did one more TAS 10sector speedrun. This time on Map22. Albert 'Vrooomer' Valls did yet another fast maxdemo for Perdition's Gate(along with credit to Brad for the route). The featured map is staying for another month as it has only got two speed demos for it, so go and do some. All this and more at Opulent Speed Demos Archive
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| Friday, December 29, 2000 |
PrBoom Frontend 2.2
The King Doom has updated with news of PrBOOM Frontend 2.2 Build 36 has been released. Here are some of the new features.- Creates savegame folders for every WAD list
- You can select to load your saved games by clear text
- Level warp by level title
- Pr/glBoom Config file management (as much as you want)
- Plug Ins (Programs to start before/after Doom, additional DEH / BEX / WAD Patches) [comments]
Multiplayer Quickstart Guide
Here is your guide to Multiplayer Doom. We have listed five programs and the instructions on how to get them running. There is also help on modems with links to 147 modem manufacturers covered. 69 verified modem initialization strings and 79 technical notes. If you want multiplay then you want the Quickstart Guide.
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Tormentor's Realm 667
That's right, Tormentor's moved his Realm 667 over to NewDoom.com, so you might want to drop by the place and welcome him in, even though he's really been here for a while (see Orbit Interactive). You'll find a great resource of Tormentor's favorite wads and editing tools, as well as his own impressive, growing list of wads he's created - including our recently announced Wad-in-a-Week contest winner! Head on over to Tormentor's Realm 667!
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Porty On Dudes
Kodak's Doom Page has a new version of ZDoomGL. V0.5 has a bucket load of new features which include - MD2 now correctly displayed with minigl driver.
- New corona blending effect.
- 32bits display support (set it in the resolutions option screen).
- More than one mirror can be rendered in a scene (hardware stencil buffer needed). Console command: g_iMaxMirrors. For the rest your just going to have to go to Kodak's Doom Page
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Port And Stilton
Vavoom has updated with the release of v1.666 BETA 1. Here is what Janis has to say:In this version you already have: wider look range, tilted death view, skyboxes, zooming. It also has no problems with slopes, but they require physics sou they will only be available in version 1.7. It also allows some lighting effects. Since this version Vavoom needs "GL-Friendly Nodes" created with glbsp and PVS (Potentially Visible Set) data created with glvis at least in fast mode. You know what to do. Get Vavoom
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| Thursday, December 28, 2000 |
Lost Doom Sites
Last exit for the lost:· Gatchaman Doom
Gatchaman Doom is a completed Total Conversion that includes many graphics changes, multiple sound effects sampled from the Gatchaman soundtrack.
· The Crow's DoomII Page.
I think everyone must have come across this one at some point. If you haven't been then go. It's bursting at the seams.
· When Dream And Doom Unite.
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New Designer At id.
Over at Stomped there is news that id software have hired a new level designer. They have had confirmation from CEO Todd Hollenshead that id have hired Malvern Blackwell. Malvern was hired back in december and his previous work includes level design work on Kingpin for Xatrix Entertainment.
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Recess And Rewind
Chris has update The Doomers Recess with some news on 2001 ADO. Paul has recently finished E2M1. Which gives chris the perfect opportunity to post a screenshot of the level. Progress has slowed a bit on 2001 ADO as they now are both working on their own projects.
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Give Me Pain
Fredrik has updated Pain with this. Good progress news: Wim Vanrie is almost finished with his level "Security Center" which will make a really good map02. Screenshots available. I composed a midi for the level, and also did some final adjustments to map01, now bringing it up to 99% complete rather than 98%. [comments]
Pink Munchers And Pesky Imps, Oh My!
Sure he's finished his Megawad, Vilecore (be sure to download it and check it out if you haven't already), but Doom_Dude just updated his site with some news and a review of Stphrz' cool map called: Pink Munchers and Pesky Imps. It's ready for checking out and downloading!
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Wad-in-a-Week Winner Announced!
Head to our Contest section to find out who won, read all about it and download the wad so you can play it and congratulate the winner! Thanks again to everyone who contributed!
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JDoom's New Features
We had an Email today from Jaakko Keränen who of course blessed us with JDoom. He wrote to us about a new patch for JDoom.NEW FEATURES
- Driver configuration dialog for the Direct3D renderer.
- OpenGL renderer buffers vertices (used to cause errors).
This is a small patch that will hopefully do two things: make it much
easier to use the Direct3D renderer and get rid of some of the problems
people are having with some video cards and OpenGL. So there you have it. Well you will have if you go to JDoom.
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| Wednesday, December 27, 2000 |
Mole Alert
The Mole's Lair makes it's first update of the new year. Wim has finished his first level for pain and posted it off. Gonzalo send in a new terrere skill 2 speed demo in 1:05 providing him with 4 points. Also since top of the pwads did not have a great success, Wim has put up a submit form to make it easier to submit your top 3. Finally there is a little mention of the link project where wim's Tech L.I.N.K map came out on top.
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Vavoom v1.666 BETA 2
Vavoom v1.666 BETA 2 is out. Janis pinpointed what was causing the slow down and fixed it. Also in this version Vavoom now has openGL support which can be selected from the command line with parameter -opengl. There is also a driver for LINUX, but it's not tested and by default LINUX version compiles without OpenGL support.
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Fanatic Update
Fanatic's Asylum has got some news on getting EDGE v1.24 DDF's converted to EDGE v1.25. Fanatic has almost finished writing a javascript powered form that will help you. So far it automatically detects what you're converting, alerts to entries it couldn't convert properly, and entries it's added with new default values. For the rest on this read up at Fanatic's Asylum
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The Wasteland
The Innocent Evil project over at The Wasteland is going to be held up for a while because Andy Leaver is working on map four and Jayextee is working on map five. This would not be a problem except they are also working on another project called No Hope For Life. But as soon as the maps are ready some shots will be posted. For now though we have some shots of No Hope For Life.
check out The Wasteland.
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Evil Doom : Land of Tohmarr
Doom Galaxy has released a one level demo of Evil Doom : Land of Tohmarr. There are more textures, levels and monster to be replaced in the final version. So far all of the weapons and four of the monsters have been completed.
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Wim's Tricks 'n' Speed
Wim Vanrie has got an update completely about Tricks 'n' Speed, which is his wad for seasoned doomers. There are 3 new beta testers. Who are Arno Slagboom, one of the two PublicDang hosts. Vincent Catalaà active both at Compet-N and PublicDang. And lastly Frank Winqvist who has made some impressive 10sector TAS demos. Work on map04 is now complete and there is a screen shot for your viewing pleasure.
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Doom Wad Station
The Doom Wad Station's competition is going well and there are two Doom 2 wads to download. Also there are some screenshots up of the Hellraiser Doom 2 total conversion.
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Shots Of Rod
Ike has update Team Kill with four new screenshots of ROD. This includes one of a scripted building that's exploding. No particles or shrapnal, just sprites. He also says that you will need at least a Pentium 120 to play Rod. Even then it runs like quake on a 486.
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Captain's Lmp Player v3.0
Captain Mellow sent along a little note to say that his lmp player is finished. He said it had been for a while but he didn't bother to tell any news sites. Until now. The drag & drop lmp playing and the replay last lmp button are now fully functional. This now makes playing lmp's easy. So head on over to Captain Mellow's Pages grab the player, then grab some demos.
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Fifth Wad In A Week Map
The fifth map has been posted to the Wad In A Week page. Today we have 'A Week in the Life of Hyena' by Tom (Hyena) White. Contains some new graphics and music. Grab 'A Week in the Life of Hyena' from Wad In A Week
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| Tuesday, December 26, 2000 |
Marine Interrupted Updated
Marine, Interrupted has a release of a new map called Nameless DM1. It's a deathmatch level that will need at least ZDoom 1.23 Beta 8 to run. It will also need the Gothic textures. These can be found on Afterglow's site Here.
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Doom Legacy Wads
Doom Legacy Wads have dished up four portions of Doom goodness for you. First up is Anubis. It is Map01 - Map03 wad for Doom2 and contains new monsters, textures, graphics, and sounds. Next is Brett2 by Brett Russell. It contains 5 maps for Doom. Afterglow provides the third helping with Map01 of Jägermörder. Finally StepsV2 from Harry Daalmeijer. It is only one map but there are 379 monsters to blast through.
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Lost Doom Sites
Haven't done one of these in a while. Here we go for more Lost Doom Sites:· Abode Of The Superfly
Deathmatch, Co-op and single player wads. Home to The Crypt TC.
· Chris' Doom WADs
10 of the owners own levels to download. This page is shockwaved. Thats what it says.
· Jab's Doom Zone
No levels just a fan site with pics. You can also get Doom cursors here too.
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SOM Updates His Terminal
News over at SOM's Terminal on Doom Legacy. Som has found a way to increase performance with 3d floors. He is also working on a way to control the translucency in 3D floors and an OpenGL friendly way for Fog and Colored lighting. There is also an update on his wads page with some shots of LGDM01 which is a new deathmatch level he is working on.
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Doom SDA
Opulent Speed Demos Archive has some more Demos for you. Anders johnsen did a very fast Classic_Episode Map01. Anthony Soto did two high quality maxdemos for the Classic_Episode as well. Wim from The Mole's Lair sent his Mc2001 demo which looks quite unbeatable. For the rest of the Demo news shoot over to Opulent Speed Demos Archive
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15 Most Influential Games
Gamespot have compiled a list of the 15 most influential games of all time. Well of course Doom just had to be in there. So why not see what they had to say Here. Also there is a mention of some of the first person perspective games that preceded Doom with links to 32 of them. These are available as either shareware or demos and include games like Corridor7, Catacoom Abyss, wolfenstien, Terminator Rampage and the list gose on. They are not as good as doom but some are worth a quick look. Grab them Here.
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Vavoom Mailing Troubles
Janis is still having some problems with his mail server over at Vavoom. So he has decided to put up an FAQ section where he can answer some of you problems. You send in the Question and he will post the reply.
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Orbiting Newdoom
Orbit Interactive have a great new page design. There is also a new screenshot there of Medieval Metal. which is a Capture the Flag Map. Also there is an update at Perforated Entrails with some new screenshots of the Domination, Deathmatch and Capture the flag levels.
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Ockham Complex
Thats the name of the new level released by Metabolist. This map was made in one night. Well almost. There are two screenshots of it to feast your eyes upon. So go have a butchers at Metabolist's Site.
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QDoom In EDGE GL
Fanatic has made some rather fantastic looking shots of QDoom. They were made using the EDGE GL port which has been making some very nice progress recently. To view the screenshots pop along to the EDGE homepage.
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X-Doom's New Release
MEGA 64 has news of a new wad for ZDoom called ZD3K Deathmatch. There is not a lot of information about it but there are ten screenshots posted. You will need ZDoom v1.23 beta10 for slopes, mirrors and skyboxes. ZD3K version 3 resource file is also required.
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Mac DooMLegacy
Calum Robinson has informed us of an update over at Mac DooMLegacy. He has updated Mac DooMLegacy to include the most recent changes to the Win/Linux versions. Its faster, and sprites look a lot better. This means that it should support 3d floors and fraggle script. Plus for the first time it now has 3d stereo sound. Next Calum hopes to have networking if he can just get GUSI to work properly.
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Fourth Contest Map Released!
Rellik's Wad-in-a-Week Contest Map is the fourth submission that we're releasing, and we're more than half-way to the grande prize winner! It's another very good wad, so be sure to head to our Contest section for the description and download link!
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Killer News
Team Kill have some good news for us all. Ike sent word that RoD v1.0b is right on schedule. It will be taking advantage of Doom Legacy support for FraggleScript. Ike has begun scripting the first level and adding 3d stuff. Screenshots tomorrow.
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Absolute Classic
Swedish Fish has now updated on the release of the classic episode. You won't find this at CDrom though because they can't hold both the originally released classics1-7 AND the Classic Episode. Swedish Fish has decided NOT to have classic1-7 removed because it would break many links and people may still want the originals. But you can get it at Swedish Fish Doom. You can download The Classic Episode right here from our Files Section.
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| Monday, December 25, 2000 |
Compet-n Update
Compet-n has given the old website a lick of paint and posted up some new demos. On top of all that there is a nostalgic look back over the last year.
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2001: ADO Download / Info
Just in case you noticed our new Poll and were wondering what 2001: A Doom Odyssey was and where to download it, you can visit the site here and you can also now download Episode 1 right here from our Files Section. Here's some info from the 2001: ADO site to set you on your way: 9 all new episode 1 base style levels for ultimate doom from scratch
All new music written from scratch
Will work with any source port, Boom, Zdoom, Legacy, Edge, etc
The full version will feature 4 new episodes, new storyline and episode names and everything which will make a new doom game complete. [Comments]
Kesler's Screenshot
Kurt Kesler has posted up a new screenshot over at A Place of Doom. It is another shot of KZDoom7 which is using the slopes in Zdoom to great effect. He says that the ideas are flowing so fast that the map will most likely be done before the new ZDoom.
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More At The Doom Wad Station
The Doom Wad Station has got two new wads for you. First up is Strain a 32 level tc. The second was created by Turdburglar who is a regular at the wad station. This one is called Helter Skelter.
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The Mole Updates
Wim Vanrie dropped this through our electronic letterbox today. The Mole's Lair has a new link in the link menu entitled 'Tricks 'n speed'. It is a wad desinged by old wim himself on an idea from Doug. It features many tricks like bumping, keygrabs and arch-vile jumps. It will be a real test of skill. They are also looking for people who would like to playtest or join the project as a level designer.
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Third Contest Map Released!
Slaughter House by Looney2ner is the third Wad-in-a-Week map submission to be released. The first thing you notice about this map is that it is very rich in colors, to the point of being kind of cartoonish. Which is hardly surprising when you consider the author. There are lots of new graphics to admire while you are busy blasting away. For instance, the Lost Souls now have much more of a grin on their skulls. Overall, it's a great map, and it's fun to play. There's more info and the download link on the Contest page!
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| Sunday, December 24, 2000 |
Chinese Food At The Recess
Chris gets over a major hang over to update with the latest entries to the link contest. The tech link wad was done by our very own Wim Vanrie. The strange world link wad was done by Jameson Orndoff. Finally there was only one entry to the gothic link wad. This unfortunately was not quite good enough to make it through. If you would like to have a go yourself then head over to The Doomers Recess.
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New At Doom Wad Station
There is a new wad by Turdburglar in the 'Doom2 wads from around the world' section at the Doom Wad Station. Magnetic gets an overall score of 8. Here is a snippet from Bob's review:This is a large level with lots of detail and tons of stuff to keep your eyes interested while you blow away the baddies. He seems to have thrown everything he has into this level and is one of the better designs you'll come across. [comments]
Mellow Player 3.1
Captain Mellow's Pages have updated with news on mellow player 3.1. - preset buttons will let you switch between Port/iwad/pwad configs with a single click how many presets do you want? Let me know.
- toggle "always on top" mode button
- styling new look, not just a boring rectangle shaped window [comments]
The Recess Releases
Chris has a little treat for you over at The Doomers Recess in the form of a new wad. He has released the new version of Flay The Obscene.
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Plantefall Demo Released
Andy from Purge sent word that he has released a demo of Planetfall. He has been playing around with some of the effects and this demo is the work he has done so far with the EDGE port. Go grab it at Purge
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Second Wad-in-a-Week Map Released!
The Enforcer Investigation of the OUGL Experiments is the second wad we're releasing in our countdown to numero uno of our Wad-in-a-Week Contest! Submitted by Brandon (Infirmity) Motley, this singleplayer map requires ZDoom to play (please note: won't work in v1.23 beta9 or higher; runs fine in v1.22) and comes complete with background story. Download it right here from our Files Section!
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| Saturday, December 23, 2000 |
Team Kill File Update
Ike forgot to include DeuSf with the release of RoD last night. This caused it to not work properly. He has now uploaded it to Team Kill, and it can be downloaded off the main page. The rod_10b.zip now includes this file for those who have not got it yet.
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REoL's Roundup
George aka King REoL has updated his site with a roundup of things that happened in the year 2000. The links section has also has a new year update. So head over to REoL TOUGH
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Sites Alive
Fredrik's Website has had a completely new design. Also he talks a bit about his level for the cancelled X-Mas Doom 2K project. There is a screenshot of this and its damn good.
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Doom Demonstrations II
Another update from the Opulent Speed Demos Archive with Demos from Chris who improved on his Hell Revealed Map18 maxdemo from yesterday. Also Opulent hiself made some recordings. First up are two average maxdemos for The classic_Episode. And a mc2001 demo, which was only released by CyberDreams yesterday. All this and more at Opulent Speed Demos Archive
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Unholier than thou
Ebola has finally got going with the story to necromancer. It includes gods and magic and stuff like that. Also Nimrod is starting to get up to speed again and Ebola has been playing with some 3d water on map12. So head on over to Unholy Software and get the full update.
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New PrBoom
PrBoom has a new version out. The changes from v2.1.1 to v2.1.2 are as follows.- fix problem with sound stereo
- fix problem with new network games
- supports demo files with base name >8 characters
- enable IDDT and other display cheats in demo playback
- various fixes for running on Solaris/sparc . [comments]
DeatH FesT 2000 for Doom II Available
DeatH FesT 2000 for Doom II is now available on the REoL TOUGH DeatH Site. Here's the hype from King REoL:Never assume anything is safe. Just when you let your guard down, things happen, and they can be really bad. Head on over to the Zipography Section and click the CYBER image for mayhem! Things seem so easy until about halfway past the second map, then all goes downhill for you, especially at the bitter end! Play DeatH FesT 2000, if you're not affraid! [Comments]
Xcalibur Featured On Doom Wad Station
Xcalibur for Doom II, a huge, mulilayered level, is the latest featured map on Doom Wad Station. Head to Wads From Around the World on the Doom Wad Station site to check it out.
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Merry Christmas From Doom_Dude!
Doom_Dude has JUST finished writing up his Vilecore readme and storyline. Know what that means? Vilecore is finished, uploaded and waiting for download! Head the The Megawad for more details!
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Countdown To Number One
Okay the maps are in and the votes cast so here is the countdown to the winner for Wad In A Week. The first result is up and the file is ready for download. We will announce one every day until we reach the winner. So for now pop over to Wad In A Week and don't forget to watch out for tomorrows map.
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| Friday, December 22, 2000 |
A Very Legacy X-Mas!
Just in time for Christmas, Thierry has released a special version of Doom Legacy that includes the latest features the Legacy team has been working on, such as 3-D Floors, FraggleScript, much better network support and lots of bug fixes. Don't delay, download it right here from our Files Section, head to the Doom Legacy site for more info, and post your comments on the Doom Legacy Forums!
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DoomarenA II News!
Be sure to head to the DoomarenA site, as face's got a new design up to commemorate the release of DoomarenA II! What's new for DoomarenA II? Here's what face has to say:It still tries to give a 3D feel to a 2d engine, the levels are smaller and flow better. There are enough places to dodge behind or run to in times of danger, but not so many that you will lose your target forever. New textures and flats have been included and it will support 8 players. I hope you enjoy it and the new site design. There you have it, so head to the site and make that download, you won't regret it :)
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Compet-n
Compet-n has updated with more demos than you can shake a big stick at. Plus an answer to the E1M4 ledge at the slime which some Doomers thought must be a shortcut left over from development. Well the answer came from no other than Tom Hall himself in an email from John Romero. Grab the demos and read the mail at Compet-n
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3 Years Of Ports
It was today in 1997 that id software released the source code that led to numerous ports being made. Now three years later Doom is an ever changing game with slopes, True 3d objects, open gl and many other new features. Two ports, Doom Legacy and JDoom reside here at newdoom. Also be sure to check out ZDoom, Skulltag, Boom and EDGE.
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| Thursday, December 21, 2000 |
Crucified Dreams
Crucified Dreams has updated with some new screenshots. They were taken in Jdoom and they do look good. Some testing has been going on using CSDoom which allowed Afterglow to fix some bugs that were showing up. Read more at Crucified Dreams
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KillEd v1.4
The new version of KillEd is now available. Ike says that he has included all the new linedefines including 3D floors. The ini toggle to switch between v1.3 and v1.31rc1 has not been added as he felt it was redundant. Head out to Team Kill.
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Painful Members
Fredrik has updated the Pain site with news of a new member. Wim Vanrie has joned the team as a level editor. Also Pain now has it's own forum for you to jot down your comments.
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Doom Want Ad's
Michael Smith sent us some news concerning a new page he has put up. It is called the Doom Want Ad's. It is a page dedicated to people who are looking for help on Doom projects. Just fill in the form and submit. Simple.
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3D Kill
Ike from Team Kill has been busy making a level for legacy and his first true 3D object. He is going to incorperate this into a new version of KillEd which he will start work on tomorrow. Expect it soon.
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| Wednesday, December 20, 2000 |
Opulent Speed Demos Archive
Opulent Speed Demos Archive has updated with stuff from Albert "Vrooomer" Valls, Mike Toliver, Donatas Tamonis and Frank "ZappaZ" Winqvist. Also Some links on the Perdgate page have now been fixed. There is a lot more to see over at Opulent Speed Demos Archive.
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| Tuesday, December 19, 2000 |
Purge Mail
No update with this one but Andy from Purge replied to an email I sent him about the conversion of the project to EDGE.Work is slow at the moment as I've been playing around with some of the features of EDGE in a test wad. On the Planetfall side I am in the process of converting the 5th level,which was never completed for the original Planetfall. Once I've fixed all the textures and stuff I shall finish making the level. [comments]
Orbit Interactive
Orbit Interactive are going to completely revamp their site because they are not happy with it. The Perforated Entrails project will also come to a halt as they discuss where the project is going. This is mainly due to the new Skulltag coming out soon and the release of Zdoom 1.23. They do say that it might end up being based on a different port altogether.
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Paul's Doom Update
Paul Corfiatis has released episode1 of 2oo1 A Doom Oddyssey. It contains 9 levels for ultimate doom. The style is based on episode 1 and it will run on any port. Another version come out next year which will contain this episode and four brand new episodes. Head on over to Paul's Doom Page read the full update and grab 2oo1 A Doom Oddyssey.
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Larkin About
Bob Larkin of the Doom Wad Station has sent word of new stuff at the station. A new wad called Ratcage by Turdburglar is available for download. Also some news on Hellraiser which is based on the movie series. The tc will offer new graphics, textures, flats, monsters and weapons. A 3 level Demo should be coming out sometime next week.
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The Classic Episode Released
Swedish Fish Doom has news on the Classic Episode. This is a complete replacement for episode 2 by Jan Van der Veken, Anthony Soto, Nick Baker, and Travers Dunne. There are two new levels plus fixes to previously released levels.
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Top Of Pwads
A Small update from Wim Vanrie before christmas with just one addition to the Top Of Pwads section. The new number one is Tantrum 2 by Ola Bjorling. Wim has had only 10 entries so far and asks you to please send in your top 3. For the full top 10 head over to The Mole's Lair
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Death Fest 2000
King REoL has posted some news on the release of Death Fest 2000 for Doom 2. It features four maps and will be available on Christmas day. The REoL TOUGH Militia members who have or have wanted to join please do so again due to an accidental erasure of the list. Head over to REoL TOUGH.
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| Monday, December 18, 2000 |
Just A Quick Note
This is just to say that Doom Legacy has a new url here at Newdoom. It now resides at This location so be sure to update your bookmarks.
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Edge Update
The EDGE team have updated with news that they are still alive. They also talk about some of the new features that are underway for EDGE 1.25. These are :Working savegames, working music (including MP3), fully operational hardware acceleration (OpenGL), plus lots of bug fixes. The not so good news is that multiplayer support is unlikely. For the full update head over to EDGE
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JDoom Resource.
There are some new files over at the JDoom Resource. Stimpee has added his version of Danok's v2.6f model definition pack with spinning map and some items and weapons re-scaled. Also Danok's latest pcx files (the finished Hang Legless and Nazi Splatter pcx's) to the complete MD2 archive. Also a new wad added. Enter the world of King Arthur with Excalibur for Doom/Ultimate Doom (with GWA file). For the rest head on over to JDoom Resource.
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Doom Wad Station Contest Update
Bob Larkin of the Doom Wad Station has recieved the first entry for his contest. It is a Deathmatch and coop level called 11INHELL by Owen Barnes. You can find it posted at the contest area waiting to be downloaded.
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| Sunday, December 17, 2000 |
Doom Legacy Wads
Doom Legacy Wads are currently testing two megawads before they are ready for download. The first is JyNewCol which is a Doom1 megawad ,that's all four episodes, from 4 selected authors. The second is Cleimos2 this Doom2 megawad is the sequel to Cleimos from R. and S. Phares. A screenshot of each is available to look at just to wet your appetite and thay can be found Here Also avialable are some packs from Jive these are JivePak1 (Doom1), JivePack (Doom2) JiveArt (graphics), JiveSkys (skies)
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Midi's From Team Kill
RoD from Team Kill should have it's first level completely done by new years eve and it will be available as a beta. But for now there are 11 midi's to download. These are from The Omega Day project which at the moment is still in the planning stage. The midi's have been chosen in advance and are listed at Team Kill with some information about them.
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Insanity Review
Team Insanity have another review to read. The wad is Dark Castle by Virgil The Doom Poet. Lüt has put it through its paces and says it is quite an improvment over the last one Team Insanity reviewed from virgil.
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| Saturday, December 16, 2000 |
Doom Wad Station Contest
The Doom Wad Station is holding an open contest, inviting any and all wad designers to submit original Doom or Doom II wads. The contest ends January 31st. The winner in each category will recieve a copy of the the Doom Wad Station CD. Head to the Doom Wad Station for more details!
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The Megawad Is Coming!
Doom_Dude has finished the final map (31: Bloodstone) in his Vilecore Megawad! Right now he's working on putting in the co-op starts in every map and smoothing out any rough edges as he moves through the pack. So it won't be long now! Then what's he going to do? Who knows, but you can check The Megawad site for more info on Vilecore!
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| Friday, December 15, 2000 |
Emporium Updates
After four months the Epidermis Emporium has updated with over 60 new skins added. There are now 180 skins in the emporium, making the Epidermis Emporium the largest Legacy/ZDooM skin site on the net. New skin previews have been added and the animations are now double the size of the old ones for easier viewing. There is loads more so head over to Epidermis Emporium and get the rest.
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Wim's Top Three
Wim Vanrie is asking for people to send in their top three Single level pwads. Wim hopes to compile a top three of the best levels ever created. So head on over to The Mole's Lair and cast your votes.
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ZDoom 1.23Beta 9
Over on the ZDoom forums Randy Heit has posted some news on a new Beta of Zdoom.I've tried to fix all the reported bugs in beta 8 (and some that were not reported). Slopes now work at any angle. Given the response they got, that's probably the biggest reason to download this version in favor of beta 8. Head on over to ZDoom forums to read the rest of the fixes, and you can get beta 9 right here from our Files Section.
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Keen To Return?
Todd Hollenshead made this reference to Keen in his .Plan. Could this be a new Keen game on the cards? To pile on the Keen renaissance (with a nod to 3DR, Blues, etc.): look for upcoming *new* Keen news in the not too distant future. That's all I will say for now. [comments]
Doom SDA.
Opulent Speed Demos Archive has updated. Ralf Schreivogel, Donatas Tamonis and Martin Schultz have all a sent in demos. Opulent ripped some demos from Sam Woodman's page. He does the entire Biowar episode in UV. Plus news on a Buzanic, who is most probably the best Doom dm player ever according to Opulent.
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| Thursday, December 14, 2000 |
Half-Life Doom II Updated
As reported about earlier here, and featured over on the Doom Wad Station, there's a Half-Life Doom II TC by Jeremy Stepp. What's new is that he just added some new sounds and flats. So, if you've downloaded it before, or haven't yet, be sure to check it out!
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Vorpal's Moves
Vorpal's, home to the Episode 1 clone wads and Alien Vendetta, has moved from gis.net to charter.net which is a cable provider. Brad Spencer says that the speed is amazing and that he will run a co-op server from time to time under the ip 24.240.171.44.
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| Wednesday, December 13, 2000 |
Xdoom's Zdoom Tutorials
X-DOOM has sent an E-mail telling us that he has been talking to psy about tutorials for zdoom. These tutorials will be the same as Rick Clark made but much easier to understood how his functions of ACS script work. At the moment he is translating them so be patient and keep watching MEGA 64
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Wes Doom
Greenday a visitor to our Forums has put up a website. He explains that he finds something really fun to do but gets bored just as quickly. So he has decided to leave the doom community but he leaves us with his site. So go on over and have a look at Wes Doom
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Lost Doom Sites
More of those places lost in the world wide web:· Best Of Doom
This site is has had two years since it's last update. A long list of files but not all of them work.
· Dr. Iguana's DOOM II Stuff
Lots of levels here plus a few utilities.
· Hypo's Doom 2 Page.
Colourful page with links to some of the more famous wads around. And for those that don't know he also worked on the GothicDm I and II. These have a link here as well. [comments]
Doomers Recess
The Doomers Recess has updated again with news on the LINK project. Chris has also been hard at work on 2001 - A Doom Odyssey finishing E3M6. He will be taking a rest from doing more on this project as he gets to work on Flay The Obscene - The Third.
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Half Life For Doom2
There is a new wad at the Doom Wad Station. It features all new monsters, weapons, etc from Halflife. But alas not new sounds. Also it dose not come with it's own levels but there are some Screenshot's from the original Doom 2 and some from Bob Larkin's own elevator wad. Check it out here.
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| Tuesday, December 12, 2000 |
ZDoom 1.23 beta 8
Randy Heit posted to the notgod forums that he'll be releasing ZDoom v1.23 soon, so he's releasing a new beta (which you can download right here, along with the below mentioned new ACC and example wad w/ skyboxes from our Files Section):http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rheit/123beta8.zip
This version does not use PTC for graphics, and yes, I know that the screen melts currently look nasty. To turn off the bullet holes, set cl_maxdecals to 0.
Here's some basic documents describing some of the new editing features, since I want people to start trying them out.
Sector specials and some new ACS commands: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rheit/notes.txt If you want to use the new ACS commands, you'll also need a new ACC: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rheit/acc115.zip
New cameras: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rheit/cameras.txt These notes were culled from the source code with some small comments added, but hopefully they're not too hard to figure out.
Slopes: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rheit/slopes.txt
Sky boxes: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rheit/skyboxes.txt
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Tormentor Not Torment
Tormentor's Realm has been updated and has a nice christmas feel to it along with some screenshots of his entry in the wad in a week contest. Head over and see Tormentor
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Unholy Software
Ebola has sent in some news on his 10 sector map which was Megawad 1 Map17: Lord Of The Flies. He has been getting some good feedback on it. One was that it was one of the best maps in the wad with awesome gameplay. On the Nimrod front however thing's have been a little slow as there has been no work for two weeks. More news to read at Unholy Software.
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UltraFE v1.1
A new version of UltraFE has been released. The universal front end is a capable of running any Doom Engine (including ports) game. The new version contains the following fixes.Display Parameters Introduced.
Error 68, "Device Unavailable" Fixed.
Tweaked GUI.
DOS Filename Support. Version 1.1 has only been released as an upgrade, and Steve Noonan said to save the 1.0 excuitable, because 1.1 may have a bug I missed.
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| Monday, December 11, 2000 |
Annihilation Annihilated
Team Annihilation have called it a day after eight months. The team who were working on Annihilation have gone there seperate ways with Dreamdestroyer-OsC and AcidBurn-OsC forming Dark Image Studios. They are currently looking for new members so head over and have a look.
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The Mole
Wim Vanrie has updated The Mole's Lair with more demo goings on. Doug speeded over terrere1.wad again and improved his skill 2 speed demo which is now 1:01. Also there is a new section which features the top of Single Player 1 level pwads. Pop in and see The Mole.
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Wad-in-a-Week Submissions Closed!
The Contest is now closed! We received 7 submissions before the deadline! We'll announce the contest winner in 2 weeks. If you were working on a wad for the contest, but didn't finish it before the deadline, then we encourage you to please go ahead and finish it and send it in for inclusion in a prospective 'official megawad' (assuming that's possible, given the source port incompatibilities). In fact, the more likely scenario is that we'll offer them all for download together in one big 'Official Megazip', playable as single levels. At any rate, you can still send your submission(s) to wadinaweek@newdoom.com. Prize for the winner will be announced sometime in the coming 2 weeks! Thank you to all who participated!
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| Sunday, December 10, 2000 |
New Doom Hosted Sites In Print
Check out our latest Featured Screenshot. It's from the latest edition of PC Gamer (US) magazine. In it, there's an opinion piece that features the classic Aliens TC for Doom, and as a sidebar talks about JDoom and Doom Legacy, both proudly hosted right here at NewDoom.com, as well as ZDoom. Pretty cool!
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Wad-in-a-Week's Last Night!
Tuesday, 12/12/00 11:10am Eastern. That's the finishing date and time for our Wad-in-a-Week Contest. We have already had four levels submitted, so don't forget to get them here before the deadline or they will not be considered. Send them in to us at wadinaweek@newdoom.com.
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Doom Done Quicker
Doom Done Quicker has released an Ultra-Violence run through of all four Ultimate Doom episodes to celebrate Dooms seventh birthday. The time taken was 16 minutes 5 seconds. This is over three minutes faster that Doom done quick.
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Skulltag At The Movies
Skulltag has updated with news of the 'View Cinematics' option which people have been asking about. ST is going to feature full cinematic cutscenes which will be prerenderd and will be in be in either avi or mpeg format. For the rest on this head over to Skulltag
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Doom Wad Station
Please welcome our newest hosted site, Doom Wad Station! This site has been around a long time, providing one of the largest resources around. You'll find 150+ Doom and Doom II wads, TCs, utilities - you name it. Find it at the Doom Wad Station!
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Doom 3 Screenies!
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Hey there kiddies look what we have souped up for you, head over to this site and see the first official released screens of the upcoming iD Software megahit in the Doom series.
PS: this is a joke! Don't take us serious, whatever you do!!!!
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| Saturday, December 9, 2000 |
John Carmack Replies
Over at Slashdot John Carmack has answered a question put forward about Linux. He mentions this about the new Doom.It is going to be quite some time before DOOM ships, so we can't say anything definitive at this point. I will probably do the initial development work for DOOM on linux, but I'm not interested in tracking every change that goes on in the linux world. The initial work will probably be with the Nvidia driver, which already has all the features I need, then I will work with the Open Source mesa drivers to bring them up to par.
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Happy Doom-Day!
Just couldn't let the day go by without mentioning our beloved Doom (you know that he/she is an entity and has feelings about such things) has turned sweet 7 and never been kissed :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOOM!
Here's where I was and what I was doing the first time I played Doom:
I had played Wolfenstein 3D, of course, so as you can imagine I jumped right on the Doom shareware as soon as it was available! The first time I played Doom, I was living in Athens, GA, and it was right before my buddy Evan and I went to a party. At that party, I still felt like I was running around in the level. And all I wanted to do was get back home so I could play some more!
So, where were YOU the first time you played Doom? Let us know!
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Kesler's Time Off
Kurt Kesler has updated A Place of Doom with the news that KZDoom6 has been released. He also says that it is a bit easier that the others in the KZDoom series so you might want to play it on skill4. Kurt is now taking some time away from mapping, so he can be fresh for the new ZDoom version.
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Update At Unholy Software
Unholy Software have Updated with news on Nimrod. SoM sent in Map04 with scripts. Sasha "The Prophet" Müller quit cause of really good reasons and Ebola is not saying what. Carnevil is also doing some help with Nimrod but we are assured that it won't affect his work on Skulltag. For the rest, file over to Unholy Software
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Feel the Pain
Fredrik has sent word that there are some new screenshots to look at over at Pain. They were sent in by Tomi "Lu Wang" Rajala who is working with fredrick on this.
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Mega 64 Moves
MEGA 64 the homepage for ZD3K has moved site. It is still in French and English and there are two tutorials for Z-Doom. Plus there is a full section about X-DOOM's work at RTC Doom.
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Formerly Known As Innocent Evil
Jayextee emailed us to say that his Innocent Evil Site has been changed. This includes the title and it is now know as The Wasteland. There is also news of a new project he is working on going by the name of Self-induced Chaos (SiC). A screenshot for this is also available for viewing.
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PR Boom Frontend Released.
King Elvis has released PrBOOM Frontend 2.1. List of features as follows:- Creates individual savedir for every single WAD or WAD list
- Supports PrBoom compatibility level function
- Conatains database which keeps all your individual PWAD lists with level to start, compatibility level, DEH files
- Displays PWAD's belonging TXT file while selecting
- Support for single and multiplayer games Go Check out King Stuff
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| Wednesday, December 6, 2000 |
Chris-mas At The Recess
Chris is in festive spirit at the recess and in his Stocking he has a new screenshot of his 99% completed E3M6 level for the 2001 - A DooM Odyssey. Also a cool looking screenshot of Paul's excellent E1M9. Finally there's a new review called Derelict and it is made by Philippe Lesire. So go get your goodies at The Doomers Recess.
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American McGee Interview
Well Rounded Entertainment has posted an interview with American McGee. In it he mentions that he has seen the engine at work."What blows me away is the lighting architecture," he says. "The light is real. It's like watching a movie with the sound off, then - whoa! - turning on Dolby 5-channel." McGee, who's close friends with John Carmack, has seen the engine at work and calls it a "quantum leap" in gaming engines. He also gose onto say that he has two projects planned. The bigger project, he says, will probably start as a PC title, though. And to fuel it, he wants to use the Doom 3 engine id Software is crafting right now. Thanks to Necromancer for this.
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Jdoom Resource Buying Tips
Having trouble getting hold of Doom? Have all your original floppies gone to flop. Well Stimpee's JDoom Resource may have the answer. Stimpee has updated the Buy Doom section for people having trouble getting hold of this marvellous game.
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Vilecore With One Map To Go
Doom_Dude has finished map 28: The Energy Well. That means there is one more to go which is Level 31: Bloodstone. If everything goes as planned, Vilecore should be ready sometime around the 24th of December. It might be sooner. So go check out Vilecore
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| Tuesday, December 5, 2000 |
New Doom Chat Room
Listen up, NewDoomers! We are now hosting a chat room to facilitate community communications. Proceed to our Chat Room link from the navbar to your left, register your miserable selves, and commence chatting!
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Kill's Team News
Ike has sent us a status report on Team Kill projects. The first level of RoD is about 50% done and Ike is planning on adding actual real-life replicas of Japanese buildings. He is also working on E3M1 for now and is taking a break from E2 of kill. Another birthday too Ike was 17 yesterday.
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Insane Sectors
Team Insanity have updated with a review of the 10 Sectors Megawad. Thats about it really apart from Chief who has just turned 20 and feels old.
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CSDooM FAQ Updated
Slayer[nFc] has updated his CSDooM FAQ to reflect the changes and additions in the newly-released version 0.70 of csDoom. Head to the site for the latest!
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Orbit Interactive Are Active.
Orbit Interactive have had an updated. New Additions are the Map 01 Remixes, which is a 25 Level Deathmatch Pack only filled with map01 rebuild levels! Perfect for deathmatch with Skulltag and bots!Also the DooM Music CD, which Tormentor667 has created and uploaded to NewDoom is avaible! You can download each track from there site. Head on over and grab the rest of the news from Orbit Interactive!
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Wim's A Broken Man
Wim Vanrie is not a happy chappy. He broke his arm and now cannot enter the Wad In A Week contest. But he has some good news from Kelly in the form of two more demo's, an improvement of his nomonster and a brand new skill 2 speed demo.
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Lu Wang's Site
Lu Wang's Site has updated with news of a new SP map for Doom2 entitled Painful Evil which you can download from the maps page. Also check out the new site design.
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Please Redownload The Contest File
We apologize for the few minor probs with the Wad-in-a-Week base map, but I have just overwritten the original with the fixed version, so those of you who have already downloaded the map before right now, you must please re-download it. There is a linedef with no sector tag this is for a transporter. It is up to your discretion where you want that to transport to. Note also, of course that the contest deadline has been changed to reflect the Last Modified date/time, so it is now 12/12/00 11:10am Eastern. Again, sorry for the inconvenience!
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Quick Contest Addendum
We just got a couple of questions from someone planning out the design of their wad, which I thought I'd pass along with the answers for the benefit of all who may be wondering the same. I'll update with more of these as I have them:I'm sure you know this, but zDoom and a few other engines can support a .deh
(dehacked) file that is built in to the wad. Can an entry have a dehacked file like this?
Good question; yes it can.
Also, I forgot to ask you this in the other email, is it allright if we use hexen format (which is required to use ZDoom's ACS (scripting))?
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Wad In A Week Contest Starts
It is here at last the start of the Newdoom Wad In A Week contest. So Don't sit there reading this, time's already ticking away! go get the Wad-in-a-Week Base Map and start editing. Prizes will be announced soon.
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A VERY Looney Hosted Site!
Emerging from somewhere in the deepest, most remote back lot (affectionately referred to as Termite Terrace) of our ACME Enterprises division, Looney2ner infects his unique sense of humor and fun onto the world of New Doom! So, go on over to the Looney One's new forum and welcome Looney Tune Doom to our family of hosted sites!
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More Wad-in-a-Week Details
We've refined Point #1 of our Wad-in-a-Week rules, in response to a question sent in, and have added Legacy, EDGE, and JDoom to our list of source ports that your wad submission(s) may be compatible with. Our original list already (and still does) included Boom/ZDoom. Hope that makes sense (words are great things, aren't they?). The time for the contest is drawing very near, so if you still have any questions after reading back over the rules, please send them in to wadinaweek@newdoom.com while there's still time.
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| Saturday, December 2, 2000 |
Wad In A Week Rules
The hairs on the back of my neck are stood on end. Why? well I have in my sweaty palms the rules for the Wad In A Week contest. Everything you need to know about the contest is on the Wad In A Week page. So go and brush up on the rules because it's not long now.
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Doomers Recess News
The Doomers Recess has two new reviews for you to look at. The first is by a guest review by our very own Wim Vanrie of The Mole's Lair who has carefully examined The Abandoned Base. Chris meanwhile has reviewed Hello! by Hello Software.
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CyberDemon Dreamin'
 Albert from Présage sent us this very cool scan of the Cyberdemon Reaper miniature, made by Peter Heinemann. Peter sent some more scans to the CyberDreamers, so be sure to check those out in their latest news update!
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csDoom v0.7 Released!
After an extended leave of absence, csDoom v0.7 has finally been released! Here's the list of what's new:• A new csDoom launcher. It saves the servers list to the windows registry and you can delete csdl.ini. You know where this file is... I think, you deleted it many times ;-)
• Cooperative play. Cooperative isn't finished yet and very strange things happen sometimes but it works! I'll be glad to see some ultimate doom co-op server...
• Added fragstats support. Go to fragstats homepage and read what it is. (Read about fraglog and fragstats commands in the csdoom readme.)
• Many bugs had been fixed and csDoom became more stable. I tested it a lot and it didn't crash.
• Switches work properly now.
• And many other bugs had been fixed... Head to the csDoom site for more info. You can download csDoom v0.7 right here from our Files Section!
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RTCDooM Gives Fans A Twirl
Maonth's got a new tutorial at RTCDooM (considered the number 2 site for RTCDooM ;). It's Maonth's own 3DMFan, which is a ZDooM-only spinning fan tutorial, so check it out!
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Fedrik's Vrack Update
Fredrik's Website has updated with a modified levels page with a compilation of the comments that he has recieved on Vrack. Aslo he is rather pleased that it is a featured map over at the Doom Speed Demos Archive.
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Newdoom's Wad In A Week Contest
The Wad in a week contest is so close I can feel it's breath on my neck. Just Keep watching this page for the announcement. Full details will be included. Oh by the way there are two pics from the base map on the Doom Contest page.
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