May 2001
Channel #Newdoom
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The servers that our chatroom is on, are currently down, therefore the channel #newdoom will be switched to different servers temporally, until austnet.org is restored. You may not be able to enter the chat periodically.
doom.wrong.button.com Update
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Lots of new Doom related stuff has been posted to ftp://doom.wrong.button.com this week.-King Elvis now has a Doom Legacy front end in the Source Ports section.
-Rubilacxe's Cube is in the "Source Ports & Total Conversions" dir.
-A few more of Lazer's wads have been placed into the "Lazer" dir under wads.
-An enhanced version of the console version of "Spawning Vats" is in the wads dir "wads from console doom" along with Redemption Denied. Good stuff. Go have a look!
Skulltag Nearly Done
Carnevil has updated Skulltag to report that they are starting to get close to the release of the full version. Some of the skins and almost all of the deathmatch levels are done. There is also the promise of Screen shots soon.
SDA News
Opulent Speed Demos Archive has demo delight for you once more. Varun Abhirama Krishna did maxdemos for two of Tobias Münch's maps. Albert Valls did maxdemo on Qboard. Mark Thompson did a speedrun on map01 of Raven. Plus a whole lot more so why not surf along to Opulent Speed Demos Archive and see whats on offer.
Visit to id Article at NewDoom.com
That's right, we've just posted Jim 'Rellik' McDougald's massive report on his recent visit to id Software! The article includes lots of behind-the-scenes pictures, and even info on the New Doom game in progress at id! Head there now!
New Site Design At The Megawad
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Doom_Dude has updated The Megawad with a new leaner and meaner design. He's also posted two rather sweet looking screenshots of his upcoming deathmatch level Technocore. So, head on over there and admire the new view.
New Stuph At GoldenEye Doom2!
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A new version of the GoldenEye deathmatch level pack ge64dm.wad has been posted at the GoldenEye Doom2 TC site. This new wad includes 7 dm levels and requires the latest version of gold64.zip(for source ports) or ogold64.zip(for normal Doom 2) for the additional textures. Also posted is a Partial Conversion of the movie MoonRaker by Sam and a new version of ge64levs.zip which updates some levels and fixes the surface1 bug again.
3d Legacy Wad Contest Update
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In response to some questions from contestants there have been a couple of amendments and clarifications to the 3d Legacy Wad Contest rules.
1) All entries must be for Doom 2, Ultimate Doom or Heretic. 2) The deadline for all entries has been extended from June 14, 2001 to June 27, 2001. So, there's still four full weeks left for you to make that winning level. Hop to it!
New Shots @Piper At The Gates Of Doom
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ReX sends word he has updated his site Piper At The Gates Of Doom with a bunch of screen shots of both his newest project, The Darkest Hour and of his other recently released projects. Man those shots rawk!
Newdoom 3d Legacy Wad Contest Update
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Well it's official. John Romero will be contributing the top prize in Newdoom's 3d Legacy Wad Contest. That's right! The winner will take away an autographed copy of Doom2 personally owned by the man himself. Chances are he may even play some of the submissions. So, get crackin' on those entries. Your fifteen minutes of fame awaits!
Fod And True Evil Featured At Doom Wad Station
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Doom Wad Station has selected its Website of the month for June. Fod's Deathmatch Page is the lucky recipient of this honor (yay fod!!!! :) In other news guest wad reviewer Jeremy Stepp has reviewed a level titled: True Evil. The review, the wad and screen shots can be found on the Doom2 wads section of the site.
WolfDM Released
Pablo Dictter just released the WolfDM pack and it's ready to be downloaded and played. I fixed all the bugs that I could find. Aligned all the textures and some wolf music is added. This is not supose to be Gothic DM or something similar, is just a group of 4 simple levels. Head on over to Pablo's Place to read more about his WolfDM pack and make sure to get that thing downloaded......those screenshots sure look kewl!
Perforated Entrails R.I.P?
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Tormentor667 sends word that Perforated Entrails has been cancelled. He does hope to find a way to complete the project someday in some form. It won't, however, be released in the way he had originally intended.
Enter The Warehouse
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Karthik has updated Karthik's Doom Pages with reviews of Joe Pallai's Entryway 1.2 and Pablo Dictter's Warehouse. He also talks a bit about the good write ups his brother Varun's level The Anomaly Part II has been getting.
Mein Leiben!
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Over at Pablo's Place some new screenshots of an upcoming Wolfenstein themed DM project have been posted. Officially there no name yet for the map pack but WolfDM is a strong possiblity. Pablo hints you might be able to download this new project sometime this week.
Murderous Intent Beta2
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Jayextee sends word he has posted a new Beta version of Murderous Intent at his site The Lost Lexicon. Go check it out. The screen shots look interesting.
Doom Heavan
Doom Heaven has updated with news of Andy's new Legacy wads at DoomHeaven. There are seven Deathmatch levels using real 3D bridges, walkways and deep water. There are also new sounds and graphics. Get a grip and get over to Doom Heaven
Doom Arena Update
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Face has updated Doom Arena with a fresh shot of the nearly completed Spone. This new level is using 3d floors created in Legacy. So go on over and take a look. Maybe it will give you some ideas for an entry in the Newdoom 3d Legacy Wad Contest.
Underworld TC Help Wanted
The Underworld Total Conversion needs you! This conversion 's theme goes from Earth, to space and eventually to hell, through 32 levels of Doom II. If you have an interest in helping Devin Afshin with his TC project (he needs mappers, sound / music editors, texture artists and testers, then go to his Doom Down Under site for more information. Screenshots of the first six Underworld levels can be found here.
No Hope Review At Doom Wad Station
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The unfinished No Hope For Life episode replacement for Ultimate Doom has been posted and reviewed at Doom Wad Station. Also included are some screen shots and a link to the No Hope For Life website.
Doom Pages Reviews
Karthik's Doom Pages has updated with the addition of three new wad reviews. Two of Tobias Münch's WADs - "Toxic Waste Storage Plant" and "Hot Blood" were reviewed, along with the excellent Malcolm Sailor level "Chord3".
More Doom Wad Station Stuffage
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Just released on Doom Wad Station is a new level by Brandon Mills titled Weepin. This wad can be found on the Young Guns page. Brandon is an 11 year old wad developer who is truly beginning to get the hang of it. This wad is definitely worth a download no matter what your skill level but rookies beware!
No Hope For No Hope?
It seems that things over at the No Hope For Life page are not looking to good. The project leader Andy Leaver is asking for feed back on weather he should continue or not. So head on over to No Hope For Life and give some support.
Imp Factory At The Doom Wad Station
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Semetary of the Doom Wad Station sends word he has posted a new level on the Doom Wads section of the site called Imp Factory. This is a good wad for the less experienced Doomer as it's not too difficult. As the name implies you can expect to encounter plenty of, well, imps!
Fanatic's Asylum Update
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Marc Pullen aka Fanatic has posted an online mini-CD project titled Limits at Fanatic's Asylum. The six song twenty minute release is downloadable for free so go get it won't you!
NewDoom Welcomes RoboDoom!
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We're proud to announce our new hosted site, RoboDoom. RoboDoom is a Doom II mod based on the blockbuster movie, Robo Cop. The mod's still progressing, but you can find it at the adress below (not to mention that the screenshots in it, kick ass!)So without further adieu, welcome to RoboDoom! Head over http://www.newdoom.com/robodoom/ for all the goods!
DOOM SDA
More content from Opulent over at his Speed Demos Archive for you. Firstly Newdoom's own Albert Valls did a very action-filled demoset for Slosh. Another entrant from this page is Karthik Abhirama Krishna who did maxdemos on Varun's new map Anomaly2. Head on over to Doom Speed Demos Archive for the rest.
New Official Zdoomgl
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Kokak has announced the release of the official 0.66 Zdoomgl beta at the Doomgl page. New features include the welcome addition of unlimited resolution support as well as various other bugfixes to increase stabiltiy. This version has been mirrored to the ports section and you can download it here. While you're at it you might want to download Slayer's new model pack to try out with it. This pack includes: -New fireballs from Arachnotron, Imp, and Hell Knight/Baron.
-A new barrel with explosion.
-New explosive death animations for imp, sargeant, chaingunner and SS soldier.
-A new plasma Gun. You can get the model pack here.
Doom Legacy Wads
Jive has been a busy fellow and added some new stuff to Doom Legacy Wads. Jive has been working on the presentation of the page and also added two new wads. SiriusIV and 3dPhobos7 have been added to the games section.
Immoral Updates
Immoral Conduct has updated with news that the grenade problem has been fixed. The problem that people were experiencing was due to an infinite loop which caused frags to spawn themselves over and over. So now you can grab version 0.9b.
RoboCop Doom Interview
GameArena posted a kewl Interview today with Sentry 22, who just happens to be working on a RoboCop TC for Doom. Here's a snip of the interview: Sentry 22:-- I am a 21-year-old female computer science major from Maryland, USA. I enjoy programming and creating visual works of art: paintings, drawings, sculptures, etc. I'm also left-handed and I use a combination of mouse and joystick in deathmatch. I belong to the Sisters of Doom, an all-female clan. Our webpage is at http://sistersodoom.topcities.com if you want to check it out, but recently we've not done much clan-wise due to real life. . .oO(Real life is that thing that takes away from playtime) Head on over to GameArena and read about what sounds like a very kewl Doom TC!
Karthik's DooM Lighting List
Karthik updated again! Karthik reported this news:This afternoon I added some useful information to my site. I was trying out different lighting levels in Doom, and I wrote a program in C++ to generate a HTML page containing a list of all the different light levels in Doom. (For example, light level 0-7, 8-15, ... , 248-255 are the same - the page lists all the 32 different ranges for these numbers) Go here to get to Karthik's site and here for the lighting info.
Anomaly Reviewed at Karthik's
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Karthik has updated Karthik's Doom Pages with a review and demo of his brother's map The Anomaly Part II. There's also some new Doom themed wallpaper at the wallpaper's page for you to check out too.
Destroyer's Designs
DEST-X'S Doom Zone has had another lick of paint. Destroyer has redesigned his Doom page once again. Besides looking good he also talks about his 2D doom fighter project and Doomland. Head on over to DEST-X'S Doom Zone.
Speed Demos Archive
Opulent's Speed Demos Archive has some more demos for you to browse through. Mike Toliver has made a demoset for Vilcore. Chris Ratcliff, Claudio Barba and Albert Valls are just some of the doomers with demos this time around.
John Romero Loves Legacy
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That's right folks. The god of Doom, John Romero himself, has given a glowing endorsement of Legacy at Planet Romero! In fact it's now his favorite source port, replacing ZDoom on his desktop. So head over there and read up on all the wonderful things he had to say. Thanks to Mark Quinn and Rellik for the heads up on this.
Newdoom Competition Time
Time for you all to warm up those editors as a new contest arrives at Newdoom. The aim is simply to make the best 3d level using Legacy in the space of one month. It is that simple. For those of you who are a little unsure how to make 3d floors in legacy there is a map which you can get from the Newdoom Contest page. This contains one 3d floor which you can use as a base for your map if you like. All the information you need is on the Newdoom Contest page. So go have a look and make a start.
Pablo's Subversive Plans
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Pablo Dictter has updated Pablo's Place with some new plans for Subversion. It is now going to be a complete episode instead of starting from E3M3. He's also thinking of adding some original music if he can find someone to compose it for him. So, if you are a musician and would like to be a part of the project, drop him an email!
Doom Wad Station Update
Sematary's Doom Wad Station has an upgrade to the original Traffic wad called: Traffic2 which features difficulty settings (not available in the first release), more monsters and new areas added to the level! Also - Jeremy Stepps new project based on the Justice League of America is in need of level developers. News about the project and a link to the site are provided at Doom Wad Station.
The Anomaly: Part II
Pablo Dictter sent in word that the Doom Inferno site has launched. All the sections are not up yet, but you can get into the Levels page to download Varun Abhirama Krishna's latest wad: The Anomaly Part II (E4M6). Also there is 4 screenies of the wad waiting for inspection, so go and have a gander.
Of Heretic And Subversion
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Pablo Dictter has updated Pablo's Place with the news that work will start on the Heretic project in June. There are two new screenshots for you to inspect, giving an indication on the direction the level design will take. In other news, Subversion will have a level designed by Tobias Muench.
Team DEIM Update
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Rellik sends word Team DEIM has updated with the addition of a tutorial on making and installing colormaps. This can be found in the Doom Editing Resource section of of the site. A beta of DOOM Soccer has been posted for download as well.
Official Doom Odyssey 2001
The 2001 A Doom Odyssey project has finally got it's own homepage. This is an add on pack for Ultimate Doom and contains four all new episodes each with 9 all new levels. This also includes an all new musical soundtrack. You can download the first episode and try it for yourself. Head over to 2001 A Doom Odyssey
Wad Station Addition
The Doom Wad Station has a new wad for you and Bob Larkin had this to say about it.A new wad submitted to Doom Wad Station for the Young Guns page by Sam Prebble called t1up.zip. Sam is definitely one of the elite designers amongst his age group. Excellent design and gameplay for a young wad designer. Check it out on the Young Guns page of the site.
King Doom Needs You
Thats right folks King Doom has updated with news that he is looking for new members. So if you want to code or just write helpfiles, FAQ's or have a good idea then head on over to King Doom and let him know.
League Of Liberty
Tobias Collins sent in a very small email to say that league of liberty beta has been released. So head on over to League Of Liberty and click on the downloads page.
COMPET-N Hits 50,000
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The COMPET-N Home Page updated yesterday with news the site had it's 50,000th hit on Wednesday. Doug "Opulent" Merrill was the lucky guy behind the computer, and sent in a screenshot to prove it too. On the demo front there are two pacifist demos by Adam Williamson completing E3M1 and E3M9(long thought to be impossible). There's also a rundown on several maps that are yet to be successfully completed under pacifist or tyson rules. Other demos include speedruns in Ultimate Doom, and several PWAD demos for Hell Revealed, Memento Mori, Requiem, and the Classic Episode.
Piper at the Gates of Doom
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ReX sends us word, that after years of thinking about it, he has finally set up a Doom web site: Piper at the Gates of Doom. There you will find all the great maps he has created as well as links to popular and informative Doom sites. You will also get a sneak peek at his newest project The Darkest Hour.
Doom Legacy v1.32 beta 1 Feedback
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The Doom Legacy site has updated, with thanks, on feedback the team has received regarding the recent release of Doom Legacy v1.32 beta 1. Also in the update are some tips for working around some of the remaining bugs and a link to SoM's editing section which provides documentation for most of the new editing features.
Karthik Updates
Karthik's DOOM Pages have some new stuff for you to peruse. First up is a pre-release review of "The Anomaly Part II". This is a great level for Ultimate Doom by Karthik's brother, which he completed today. Also added is a very small WAD called Marbelus that Karthik made yesterday.
Perforated Entrails?
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Some not so good news here. Seems the Perforated Entrails project is in trouble. Little progress has been made in the past five months or so by several team members. Now it doesn't look like the project will be released in the way it was planned to be. Tormentor667 hopes to be able to release the deathmatch mod in some form so as not to dissappoint those that have been looking forward to it. Tell him what you think he should do here in this forum thread.
More Subversion Shots
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Pablo Dictter has updated Pablo's Place with the posting of eight spiffy new screenshots of Subversion. So, go on over and have a looksee!
Bonematch Anyone?
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Welcome Newdoom.com's latest hosted site Bonematch! Bonematch is a Doom2 mod for Edge. Currently there are some cool new weapons such as the Pikachu launcher, akimbo pistols, shotguns, supershotguns and more. There are plans to add new enemies, levels and an original storyline as work progresses. Viperboy is looking for artists and map makers, so if you have skill in these areas drop him an email and offer your help.
Carmack Speaks
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Gamespy has conducted an interview with John Carmack. Among the topics discussed are PC vs consoles, online gaming, John's perception on how the games industry has changed and the breakthroughs in technology he is looking forward to in the coming years.
Newest Legacy Version Released!
That's right Christmas came early again this year, sports fans! DooM Legacy v1.32 beta 1 is now ready for the downloading! Note: If you're having trouble, please turn off your download accelerator program and try it again. You should have no problems! Here's the skinny straight from Legacy honcho Hurdler:Yes, it's here, and it's a major new full release! DooM Legacy v1.32 beta 1 is now available for DOS, Linux, Win32, OS/2 and MacOS/X environments.
· Some work on the lighting and the coronas with a new cvar for adjusting the size.
· Improved OpenGL and Glide support
· Fixed most of texture problems.
· Added support for 3D positional sound cards (require DirectX 6 or above)Multiplayer
· Timeout detection and kick player if connection timeout.
· New menu option : create server and connect server.
· Use masterserver to detect all servers in the world.
· Fixed issues with netgame and dehacked.
· No more palette change in splitscreen. Gameplay
· Added 3D-Floors.
· Added volumetric fog, 3D translucent water and 3D lights in software mode.
· Added FraggleScript support.
· Added Heretic support.
· When solidecorpse is true you can smash it and turn it to giblets.
· Joystick can be used for free look using joystickfreelook cvar. Misc
· Some limitations of the engine removed (memory usage, polypool,...).
· New cvars added like scalestatusbar.
· Added -nodinput command line switch for people having input problem under Win32
· Display #SECRETS and #MONSTERS on the overlay
· ...and the usual bug fix... The exe filename is legacy.exe. Be sure it's the one you use with the launcher.
And please, read the docs before reporting bugs. Head to the Doom Legacy site for more info!
Doom Wad Station News
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Bob Larkin has posted two new wads to the Doom Wad Station today. The first, The Corrupt Priest is a sequel to Sacrifice in Blood by Jon Washburn. The second is the single player version of Looney2ners DM only map Hunted1.
Karthik Updates
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Karthik has updated Karthik's Doom Pages with a review of Return to Hangar. New to his Themes/Winamp Skins page is a Doom Winamp Skin and a Doom2 Desktop Theme. So go pay him a visit and collect all those goodies!
Doomheaven's Mummy
Doom Heaven has got a new wad for download. It's a Stargate inspired wad called Mummy Phuquers. There are ten levels for you to stroll through complete with new sounds and graphics. So get going to Doom Heaven your mummy is calling you.
Pablo's Subversion
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Pablo Dictter has posted three screenshots of Subversion at Pablo's Place. He has also written a short update on the progress of the Heretic project as well.
Doom Wad Station Goes Nova
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Bob Larkin has updated the Doom Wad Station with a review of Nova.wad by Harry . Also added were two new files to the Young Guns section of the site. Alien3 by Wes Carrol and Retorno.wad by Fransisco Fernandez. So go check all this stuff out will ya!
Murderous Intent Beta
Jayextee sent us news that the Murderous Intent beta has been released. The project was recently joined by Andy Leaver and the bios has many known names from the community. The levels can be got from Jayextee's redesigned and renamed page The Lost Lexicon. So what are you waiting for, Just go.
Gray Matter
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Bob Larkin has updated the Doom Wad Station with a review of Gray.wad by Lucifer Kaminski. This is his first publicly released wad and it's a nice one too. Go check it out!
Planetromero Wolf 3D Article
John Romero had updated his Planetromero.com site sometime yesterday with a very kewl "Happy Birthday Wolfenstein 3D" article. Here's a clip: Wolfenstein 3D had an incredibly fast development cycle of 6 months with a team of only five people which included Bobby Prince, our sound and music maestro. Even so, Wolfenstein had features designed that were dropped during development for interface and speed of play reasons. Kewl stuff!
PrBoom Music Fix
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Florian Schulze has posted a new version of SDL_mixer_beta.dll which you can download here. This version should fix the music looping bug from the version released with PrBoom 2.2.0 for Win32. Florian would appreciate any feedback you can give him as to how it works out.
Karthik's Newest Additions
Karthik has uploaded a demo of Crusades E4M1 to his DOOM pages, and has added to his Fun Stuff page as well. This time there's a picture called "Smiling Marines". Be sure to check it out!
Vavoom v1.7 Released!
Janis has just released Vavoom version 1.7. Here's the info:Well, here's final version 1.7. As I promised I worked on optimizing software rendering. It is faster and, what's more important, it's more balanced, this means that speed improvement in simple scenes is less than speed improvement in complex scenes. I also implemented a new algorythm in glVIS, it's more precise, but it works slower. Also in fast mode it will perform some rough tests, and not just a empty lump. Note: there's no reason why you should rebuild already compiled vis data. Head to the Vavoom part of our Files Section for all the files, including the Windows binaries.
Happy Birthday, B.J., Ol' Bean!
Today is the ninth anniversary of the seminal first person shooter Wolfenstein 3D! Time sure flies when you're blastin' Nazis!
X-Doom's Texture Wad
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X-Doom sends word he has uploaded a new graphics wad called UnrealT1. It contains 141 textures and 7 flats. You can download the wad here. In ZD3K news he mentions a certain secret something that he plans to share by summer's end if he pulls it off. Apparently Doom_Dude knows about it, so I guess you could try pumping him for info if you are really curious ;)
League Of Liberty Updates
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Tobias Collins has updated his League Of Liberty page with some news of a new team member, his trip to the hospital and some midis that have been posted for your listening pleasure.
New Review At Karthik's
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Karthik's Doom Pages has updated with a review of Pablo Dictter's Doom II level "An Infernal Place". In other news Karthik recorded a couple of demos of 10sector.wad MAP01, which have also been added. These are his submissions to the Doomed Speed Demos Archive.
No Hope Update
No Hope For Life has updated with Andy Leaver reporting that he has joined the Murderous Intent project being run by Jay Townsend.
The Prophet Returns
Sascha Müller's Doom Site has updated with a changes of name and address. Formerly known as The Prophets Doom Site, Sascha Müller's Doom Site has news on his entry into the 10 sector competition and a new single player map that will be called "Visions of a sick mind". Four screenshots have been posted so go take a look.
DeePsea 11.01 Released
It has arrived at last. SB Software's new version of DeePsea has been released with a host of new features. Amongst others it boasts new texture tools, Improved error checking and New predefined projects for ports. All this and some shots of the new tools at SB Software's.
Doom Heaven Wads
Alastair Montgomery sent in the news that Doom Heaven has 2 new wads that are designed for some frantic deathmatch action and singleplay. Head on over to the Doom Heaven site to check out the new stuff.
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