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July 2002
Graeme Is Devine
In an friend sort of way of course. Anyway he has updated his .plan with this little titbit:DOOM is up and running under 10.2, which as an OS is really quite cool (speed is much better than 10.1, although resizing a browser window is still painful). Not much but what do want blood? You Do? Well play Doom then.
jDoom
Also on Doomsday HQ is news that jDoom has had a small update which fixes the -deathmatch and -altdeath command line options. The package contains Doomsday 1.7.1.
Doomsy Daisy
Doomsday HQ has some more on the Doomsday engine. This is now up to v1.7.1 and Skyjake hopes that it will solve some of the problems with the renderer initialization. The rest of the fixes are:· WAV loader was broken. It was confused about chunk lengths and the WAV file header itself.
· Music definition patching didn't work. This prevented the Heretic MP3 soundtrack from working.
· Under some conditions, it was possible that Doomsday crashed during the loading of model definitions, due to excessive reallocation of memory. This is now fixed. Grab the new version at Doomsday HQ.
Roll Out The Barrel
I had an email from a gentleman called Mazedude who has a music page called Mazedudes Page. He has remixes of music from computer games. These include Super Mario Cart, Double Dragon and, I think we all know where this is leading, Doom II. Barrels Of Fun is the tune in question so if you like it pester him for more.
Espi's Death Map Match
Espi, who hasn't been remotely busy with editing, has put together a deathmatch map called Narcosis. Check it out at Espi's Site.
prBoom Release
A new version of PrBoom has been released which brings this up to Version 2.2.3. Changes from v2.2.2 to v2.2.3 are as follows:- improved mouse handling
- intermission demo sync bug fixed
- framebuffer update fixes (solves flicker on fbcon)
- -forceoldbsp allowed in non-GL version, and saved in demos
- fix player colours in multiplayer demos
- apply workarounds for buggy pwads even during demo playback
- fix numpad 5 key
- allow compilation on systems where SDL is built without joystick support
- fix comp_skymap
- using anisotropic filtering when the OpenGL extension is available
- using paletted textures when the OpenGL extension is available
- added gl_use_paletted_texture option to glboom configuration file
- using shared texture palette when the OpenGL extension is available
- added gl_use_shared_texture_palette option to glboom configuration file 3 screenshots have also been posted.
Pluto II
Plutonia II has been updated with news of some new members. These arrvials are in the shape of Erik Alm and Virgil the Doom Poet. There has been some new screenshots of updated maps added and there are only a few more maps to go.
Recess Review
The Doomers Recess reviews Andrew Loly's Crisis which includes a couple of screenshots. There is also a small redsign to the page
Doomsday
Doomsday HQ has the latest incarnation of the Doomsday engine for you to download. The relative versions are Doomsday 1.7.0, jDoom 1.14.0, jHeretic 1.3.0 and jHexen 1.2.0. Now if you download this morning you will have to do so again as there were some minor bugs in the earlier version. These are as follows:· There was no level music in jHeretic.
· In jHeretic and jHexen you could slide the volume sliders off the scale.
· Sometimes flares were drawn with the incorrect texture coordinate wrapping (appeared as a rectangular 'frame' around the flare).
· The short form of -file, i.e. -f, didn't work. So head over to Doomsday HQ and read the full list of changes.
Times Up
Andy Leavers Doom Projects has updated with the news that Timelessness has got messed up. This problem seems to be with edmap as it runs with Doom and has no problem with the nodes builder. Any help would be great. He has started another map but there are no details on this yet.
Harry's Act
Harry's Doom Planet has updated with the promised Avi demo of of Act9.wad. It's about 45mb and is available in the downlaods section.
DLW Contest
Doom Legacy Wads has a new contest for you to enter. The contest involves the redesign of the level E1M4 from PolsDic.wad. This was originally Darxide.wad which was made by Frank Polster. Jive has posted a full list of the rules HERE.
Linux Purged
Purge has news on some Linux goings on for planet127. some .tar.gz download files and the various weapon packs have been added to the download section. Plus:Some serious map editing has occured on my edge demo level Map01.wad it's now a fully functioning complete level with some tasty EDGE treats. Work is also underway on a second level to accompany it. Neither of these are available for download yet, so you'll have to make do with the demo Map01.wad for now. Remember this is for Linux.
Pre jDoom
Doomsday HQ has updated and here is what Skyjake had to say:I've uploaded a PRE version of jDoom 1.14.0 to the /jdoom/unsupported directory over at Fourwinds. It can be considered a release candidate. I still need to update the documentation and write some new stuff before the 'official' release of Doomsday 1.7.0 can be made. So, if you're feeling lucky, grab the PRE version of jDoom and let me know how it works. Especially helpful would be to hear if the player turning multiplayer bug has finally been fixed. But be sure to install the PRE version into a new directory, since most of it is incompatible with the currently available binaries of jHeretic and jHexen. He knows what he is on about does that dude. I would do as he says and grab the PRE version of jDoom and let him know how it works.
A Little Less Conversation.....
King Doom has released the King Doom Experience 4.1. This contains tools plus the binaries of 19 popular Doom source ports.
2002 A Doom Odyssey
Missed this one but 2002 A Doom Odyssey has updated with the promise of a release in august. Although they cannot say which day in august. They have also had one new member in the form of Virgil the Doom poet.
Eternity Launched
Kaiser has been busy making a Launcher for his favourite port which happens to be Eternity. He also goes onto mention that DSV4 for the Eternity engine is almost done and should be released within a couple of weeks. Get the launcher at DSV Outworld
GG
GG INC has news with regards to the release of the Windows version of Eternity. There is also a new review which is of project slipgate. Eleven levels of doom which runs at it's best on zDoom or zDoomgl.
Good Timing
Andy Leavers Doom Projects has news on Timelessness. The map is about 50% complete and Andy says that he hopes to do the same with this map as he did with Indifference. Which is get the map Beta Tested and then release it.
Blake Stone
Domus Luporum has had an update in the Blake Stone TC section. This was some stuff that was finished a while ago but not uploaded this includes a new monster.
Doom GL Progress
Kokak's Doom Page has some information on DoomGL. The development is progressing slowly but it should not be too long before a public beta is available. In the last update SlayeR forgot to mention that ZDoomGL now requires GL nodes. There are also some screenshots to look at on the forums and there are links to these from the main page.
Doomsday Looms For 1.7
Doomsday HQ has another update with news on the possible complete removal of the 35 FPS limit plus work on the D3D renderering. Skyjake is also optimistic that that Doomsday 1.7.0 plus the next versions of the games will be released this month.
Legacy 1.32 Beta5
The Doom Legacy team have released their latest beta which is the last beta before the stable release. The team hope to release that version within a month and are waiting on your bug reports to point them in the direction of any issues. Here are some highlights:- A temporary fix for 3d-fog in OpenGL mode
- A fix with 3d-sound
- New math functions for FS (cos, sin, acos, asin, tan, atan, exp, log, pow, sqrt)
- 3d-floors savegame fixed
- Object shoudn't fall through 3d-floors anymore
- Some other fixes for 3d-floors
- No more known crash with the new features
- Some improvement in the Linux version (special thanks to Ludwig Nussel) There are new documents being worked on and as a result the old docs are included in this release.
Lost Doom Sites
Oh My Goodness here is a blast from the past. This should be renamed Lost Newdoom Feature. It was getting harder to find any lost sites but I have some for you now.· Sven Olav's DOOM2 Page
Just some pics here of the wad of the month which appears to be from 1997. The link to the wad itself is no more but there is a link to 'Den Norske Doom-ligaen'. If anyone can understabd this let me know......Please.
· Nathan's Toasty Technology page
This page contains two levels for Doom. The first one is a megawad which pits you as a Martian terraformer stuck in a small station in the middle of nowhere and the other is a plain old megawad.
· Yonatan Donner's Homepage
Okay I know this is probably not strictly lost to some of you who may have it bookmarked somewhere but it has been a while since the last update and its full of Doom. I will try not to leave it too long next time.
DSV 4
DSV Outworld has announced the release of DSV4 for Legacy with the Eternity version to follow shortly. The whole thing has been neatly zipped up and is waiting for you in the Downloads section.
MSA Into OmegaDM
Disciple-X has emailed us to say that Omega-DM is now the new name for MSA-Doom. This will also have the story line eliminated and the wad is now going to be nothing more than random Deahtmatch wad for zdoom.
Goodbye Ethh
Ethh's Doom Page has been updated and I am sorry to that I did not notice it sooner and here is why:Contest has ended. i received 0 (zero) entries for it. i am very disappointed. i therefore retire from the doom scene, which i now believe is no longer alive except for a few die-hards who constitute the embers of the original doom spirit. the arrival of doom3 has changed people. as fascinating as doom3 may look, this is a real pity. 2 years ago, the same contest would have drawned tons of elite doom map editors. i won't speculate to explain this because it doesn't interest me anymore. chances are, you won't be hearing much from me except for a few compet-n demos from time to time. goodbye. I myself have noticed the slow down in Doom news. Is the end looming for the original Doom? Let us know what you think on the Messageboards.
Doomsday HQ History
Doomsday HQ has updated the history section, which now includes most of the things done for 1.7.0. There are a few things still to be added and the Direct3D renderer is still unfinished and has to be done before 1.7.0 and the associated versions of jDoom, jHeretic and jHexen can be released. Also Cheb has released some new models and these can be checked out at the Modelyard.
Mod Class Results
There were in fact only two and one of those comes from Picklehammer himself. Because of this Mod class 4 will have no rules except the length of the song itself. To find out more visit Picklehammer Music.
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