August 2001
| Thursday, August 30, 2001 |
XWE
XWE has updated with a new version bringing it up to v1.05. Included in this version is full graphics support for Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein3D, Blake Stone and Corridor 7. Also Palettes are no longer hard-coded into XWE. Custom palettes can be added by placing new files into the "PALETTES" subfolder.
Mystic Releases Kinzola!
Mystic has a new wad called Force Kinzola and he posted this bit in the forums:Ive just posted another new wad on my Doom 3D page, its a teaser level for a possible TC called Force Kinzola. Its a sort of Hi Tech space base, single player level, nothing special, but fun. Oh, and it needs Legacy for the 3D bits. Quick jump to his DooM 3D site here!
| Wednesday, August 29, 2001 |
Grail 2
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Mystic has been at it again. He has now created another wad called Grail 2. The them of the wad is a medieval castle style level designed for Doom Legacy with 3D bits. Want more infomation? Check out his website
Mellow Player 4.0
Mellow Land Productions have released the beta of Mellow Player 4.0. It has been tested with Boom & MBF but no others yet. Captain Mellow would like any feedback you could give on this.
Doom Legacy 1.32 beta 3
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You heard right, the Legacy team has been busy and has released the 3rd beta of Doom Legacy. Here is a little snippet of the new features included in this new release:
- New engine for Transform & Lighting
- Translucent 3D water and 3D floors
- Coloured sector lighting
- Improved load level time
- Better Heretic support (lots of bug fixed)
- Updated launcher
So head on over to the Doom Legacy Site and download your copy today!
League Of Liberty
Tobias Collins updated League Of Liberty with news that he has fixed some of the pages on the site which took 5 hours. Also there are some pics of new weapons and 1 new monster. Tobias also added the Sivart Guard, and some replacements for the normal d2 weapons.
Interview With A Progammer
We have a new addition to our growing secton of interviews for you with the man behind Vavoom . Janis Legzdinish answers our questions on his excellent engine.
New Doom Heaven Release
Alastair has released his first 3d level for Legacy. Its a small high-tech looking deathmatch wad called NoName3d. You can get it at Doom Heaven
Megawad Update
I updated The Megawad site today. Changed some of the graphics on the main page and added 2 new screenshots of the Demonic Outpost, which is a revamp of map 07 from Vilecore. This revamped map will be in my Deathcore wad along with Templecore, Technocore and other assorted maps. Go look.
Another New Design
I am not sure when this happened but it has. In case you are wondering I am talking about Jayextee's site which has had another redesign. This design also has news about work on Murderous Intent 2. Thanfully though the name remains the same so head over to The Lost Lexicon and check out the new style.
Espi's All Go
A lot has been happening over at Espi's Site. For a start there has been a total redesign which Espi himself describes as "Simple, but effective". I agree. Also he has got around to doing some editing the fruits of which appear in the form of Guns PC which now works with Edge 1.26.
Bucket Loads
Thats the amount of demos over at Opulent's Speed Demos Archive. Well maybe thats a little exagerated. But there are some great demos from Varun Abhirama Krishna, Toby Muench, Albert Valls, Xit Vono and the man himself. Hop along to Opulent's Speed Demos Archive.
DeepSea 11.2 Released
Version 11.2 of DeepSea has been released with more customizable features. New ToolBars, dynamite Prefab changes, Grid 64, Fix Sector tool, drawing improvements and even more stuff you won't find anywhere else! So check out the new version of this popular Doom/Doom2/Heretic/Hexen/Strife editor.
| Saturday, August 25, 2001 |
GameArena TC Needs Help
GameArena Studios has been secretly developing a total conversion for Doom 2. Now, its your chance to help with what may become one of the coolest projects the DooM community has seen in awhile. If you can draw with great skill or map, then you may be fit for joining the GameArena team. Anybody interested can contact the project leader at GameArena and be prepared to show some of your work. Thier site isn't ready yet, but hopefully soon it will be available for all to see.
Immoral?
Immoral Conduct has updated with this.Spent the evening getting ICD-DDF to finally run with EDGE 1.26, so I decided to release it.
I'm busy with other stuff (work), so I didn't add anything drastically new, just more or less made it compatible. Hopefully those of you who had problems running EDGE 1.24 can run 1.26 a little better. He also goes on to say that there are a few bugs that can't be figured but these are mentioned in the text file.
Goldeneye
Goldeneye Doom2 has updated with news that two more pages have been added to the site. The first is a Help page and the other is a Credits page. Also a newer version of the levels have been updated which fixes the dam level bug.
More Vavoom
Janis has also updated his Vavoom page with this little lot:Well I have changed my Linux distributive, now I have Linux Mandrake 8.0
which means that now I have full OpenGL in Linux. I also have an idea about porting Hexen2 to Linux, but I'm not promising anything. The next version of Vavoom will be released soon, most likely on first week of September.
Doom Heaven News
Alastair sent us an email in from Doom Heaven about a new level he is working on. It's his first 3d deathmatch level based on NoName.wad and will require Legacy. There are also some screenshots over at Doom Heaven to view.
| Thursday, August 23, 2001 |
ZD3K Preview
X-DOOM has been getting a lot of mail asking when ZD3K is being released. So on the strength of this he has made a small movie which has 33 seconds of sound and vision saved as an ASF modulor. You can find this preview Here. Don't forget to visit X-Doom for updates on this project and other stuff.
New DM wad
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A new 1 level deathmatch wad has been posted by Andy Mckie on his Doom 3D page. It's a Doom 2 wad and needs the latest version of Legacy. The level is Hi-tec/space style with some 3D floors and deep water bits and is called WET. He has also thrown in some monsters for single player fun/frustration.
Grail Quest
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Andy Mckie (aka RADAR) at gtroad has put up a new doom 2 wad on both his doom pages
(Egyptian Doom Resources and Doom 3D) its called Grail Quest and has a medieval
theme. It requires the latest version of Doom Legacy
| Wednesday, August 22, 2001 |
Take A Trip Down Demo Lane
Opulent's Speed Demos Archive Andy Olivera did a fantastic TAS demoset for the Raven series and Albert Valls did 2 maxdemos on Brad Spencer's Nexus map. Also TAS site updated and Doug did a pacifist demo on the first Classic_Episode map. Lots more to be seen at Opulent's Speed Demos Archive.
Dead Simple Week
Waaaaay over at deja-review.com they are currently having a kewl week of Dead Simple, deathmatch style.....where each day reveals a different version of Doom II's map 07. The first day featured a Quake III version. The next day unveiled a Half-Life jobby and todays version is anouther Quake III map. So go ahead and see for yourself and download some alternative, DooM flavoured, gaming kewlness.
QDoom
Marc Pullen has released a small patch that fixes an issue with MP3 music at Fanatic's Asylum
QDoom v1.00 Released !
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You heard right, Quake Done Doom Style (Qdoom) version 1.0 has finally been released after almost 3 years of work going into it. Go get it now!Requires Edge 1.26 and will not work with any other source port.
| Saturday, August 18, 2001 |
jDoom Moves Up A Point
In fact it moves to 1.01 in the form of a patch. There are a whole list of reasons to go get this patch and Jaakko has kindly listed them over on the JDoom page.
Sunday Just Got Better
Doomheaven has two new releases. Both of them require the newest version of Doom Legacy and makes use of the 3d features. The first is called Minge and is a Deathmatch/single play wad with a Hi-tec look about it. The second is called Grail and is a Deathmatch/single play wad using a Gothic/medieval theme. This will also be part of a forthcoming megawad.
| Thursday, August 16, 2001 |
jDoom Tweaking
JDoom has updated once more with tips on how to tweak the brightness of the flares. Jaakko also goes on to say that he is continuing to work on patch v1.01 and will be adressing the various HOM effects and missing walls of Plutonia/TNT, plus add a couple of new console variables and fix a couple of bugs.
| Wednesday, August 15, 2001 |
DC's WADster of the Week
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DoomCenters WADster of the Week Andrew 'Linguica' Stine, webmaster of Doomworld.com. They have the normal info, links, files, pics, but the interview is great - they talk Doom & the community, Doomworld's beginning, history, current state, and future, plus his editing, some Linguica-questions, and some other stuff. It's a great read. Also in the gallery are some of his comics from way back when, they're good for a laugh.
Interview Summary
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The recently released Carmack video interview is in streaming format at GameSpot, and some people don't like that. So BigDog from DoomCenter put together a nice summary of all the information that Carmack went over about the new Doom game and engine - some cool and new stuff released!
What We Know about DOOM
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Jaed has sent us news that The Triple Helix has compiled a list of information in an article entitled What We Know about DOOM. The article dissects the game into various areas of study: gameplay, story, sound, engine technology, editor, graphics, release date, and more. Here's to hoping the new DOOM rocks our world!
Justice League of America TC
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Sematary from the Doom Wad Station has released a new level which is the first of many for a Justice League of America TC. The first level "Atlantis" features new textures and weapons as well as extensive use of the Zdoom "underwater" feature. So head on over to Doom Wad Station and check it out.
Quake IV
I know that this is not strictly Doom News but It appears that Raven Software is to make Quake IV. Get the rest of this news at Gamespot
DeathMatch Ahoy
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Disciple-X from the M-S-A Doom Website has made a new Zdoom wad. The wad is to enhance the Death-Match experience, without drastically changing the way Doom DM feels like. It utilizes an abundance of the Zdoom special effects. There are screen shots of the Wad, but to get a better idea what it is about go and download it. The wad is currently a 12 level Beta, the next update to Disciple-X website will include the completed 32 level downloadable version.
Wim, Wim and Away
Wim is going on a summer holiday. No more dooming for a week or two. Well enough of that but as you might have gathered Wim Vanrie is off for two weeks. But when he gets back there will be an immediate uploading of Terrere 02 and another new level. The mini-contest has also ended with a suprising result. Two new demos to see with one by Albert and one by Wim himself. Which is also the winning demo. So for more head over to The Mole's Lair
Opulent's Updated
Opulent's Speed Demos Archive has updated with new demos from Albert Valls did max and nomo demos for the featured map and Opulent himself did a maxdemo for Hellarna. Also since Yonatan Donner has made the Tools-Assisted Demos site inactive TAS demos will now feature at Opulent's Speed Demos Archive within their own section.
Kill News
Team Kill has some new shots posted on it's website of Episode2 Map4. Ike has also been doing more work on BGC since he recently discovered how to do a noise reduction much more effectively in GoldWave. So the files are going to be made again. Find more and take a look at those lovley shots at Team Kill.
Karthik Site Update
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Karthik has updated his website with a new review of Simon Broadhead's map "Hell's Arena". Karthik has also got round to changing all the links to his WADs/Themes/WinampSkins/Demos to their present location at Mindless Games Files Section.
DSV Outworld Moves In
Please join us in welcoming our newest hosted site, DSV Outworld! What's DSV? Well, here's the Kaiser's description straight from his site:DSV is a 3 part (soon to be 4 part) Doom megawad episode. Two episodes replace all 32 levels for Doom II running on the Boom engine. And one 5 level (across 1 hud) running on Zdoom. DSV is a monster who gained control of hell's minions and willing to control the world. It is up to you to stop it. Head to DSV Outworld for more info!
Edge News
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The EDGE website has some new screenshots of a tech demo under construction, showing off some nice areas and dynamic lighting. Nice !!!
jDoom v1.0 Released!
That's right sports fans, jDoom v1.0 is now available for download! Check the jDoom site immediately for all the details.
| Saturday, August 11, 2001 |
Wadtext II
André Majorel sent along some news on Wadtext2. This is what he had to say.wadext2 extracts all the lumps of a wad to separate files. It does not perform any conversion on the contents of the lumps; it just dumps them byte for byte. wadext2 does with wad files what tar -x does with tar archives.It should work on all Unixen. It probably also works on DOS although no DOS binaries are provided. This is where you can get it. André Majorel's home page
DooM III DEMO!?
Apparently from the news out of QuakeCon, good olde John Carmack and company have been showing off more of the next installment of DooM. There is word of more video but I had to scratch my head when in the article they mention a Strogg? Huh? Just go over there and read the jobby at Gamespot.com Exactly when or where we will get to see this new vid is not exactly mentioned but they did say a video interview is coming soon. Keep your eyes peeled people!
jDoom's Next Release
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Jaakko has announced that he will be releasing the next version of jDoom some time this week, hopefully before the weekend. Keep your eye out for more news!
Team Kill News
Ike hs updated Team Kill's website here is the info he sent us.Kill's E2M4 is getting near completion. I'm wanting to make this one a bit smaller than the previous ones, and make up for it by adding more monsters and monster traps. I'll have some screenshots of it either Monday or Tuesday.
Remember
Metabolist from Metabolist's Site dropped us an email to remind you all that the 1-week contest maps for week 4 are due in on Sunday night.
Frad's Fraggin' Update
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Jon The Frad has updated his webpage with a desktop pic showing off a screenshot of his old 'unreal' style deathmatch level for legacy, that was used by a number of people when beta testing tcp/ip play. It featured in pic of the days at doomnation over a year ago, but was never completed.This sits alongside a screenshot of another level that bears a striking resembelance to the original, and is the result of ebola's phobia.wad inspiring Jon The Frad to remake the level, with a modern twist of detail.
ZanZan TC Upgrade
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The ZanZan TC has been updated to work with ZDoomGL v0.66. ZanZan has 3 new levels, dozens of new 3D models, several new weapons and is now ZDGL compatible. Visit ZanZan's website over at DoomWorld for more infomation.
Back To Work We Go
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With Hurdler back from his holidays, He has updated the Doom Legacy website. Here he hints that a new Beta version of Legacy will be released soon!Ebola has created a excellent map for Legacy using a lot of the new Legacy features, including use of Fragglescript. The map is called "Phobia" and is worth the download.
The FreeDoom Project
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BigDog from DoomCenter has finished an article and interview about upcoming "Freedoom". The article explains what "FreeDoom" is and has assorted information, links and screenshots. Bigdog then had an interview with Fraggle (as well as other members of the Freedoom team). And finally there is a gallery with some screen-shots of the current freedoom iwad running some pwads.
Gokuma's update
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Gokuma has updated his Ground Zero site with a new wad he has created. You can download it here.
News a plenty
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The Darkest Hour, a ZDoom 7-level hub-based and Star Wars-based conversion has been released by Rex ClaussenAlso, the much hyped level by Ebola, Phobia, has been released to Doom Center as a featured level. Bigdog has written up a review and posted the file for download as well.
Tall tales
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Rick Clark has written a new story based on e1m1. Look for 'The Hangar' link under 'Doom Stories' on his site.
We the People
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We the People, a do-it-yourself DM map review site, is now online at Capt. Mellow'sHead over & add some map reviews!
Week3
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Metabolist sends word that this is Week 3 of his one-week map contest. The theme for this week is 'gothic'. The map must contain the following: large scale architecture and/or a marble texture scheme.He also has updated his Plutonia pages with some new screen shots of the megawad
Happy Birthday!
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Yes, u heard right the Epidermis Emporium had its first birthday at NewDooM.com, on August the 4th, so happy birthday and congrats to Boingo the Clown for making a great, successful site.
Slithering Cobra's
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Ronald from the Xontor website has sent in this news:I'd like to announce the "THE COBRA EPISODES - VOLUME 5 : TALES OF THE COBRA". This is a DooM Legacy Release, ONLY and it will have new graphics, new sounds, new music, some dehacked patches and completely new maps. I'm currently thinking of creating ExMx style maps in this release, too. But i'm currently working on MAPxx style. Since the release of Cobra 1 - 4, i decided to work on a fifth Cobra Episode, a "LAST" Conversion of the SAGA. But note: i'm NOT the creator of Cobra 1 - 4. Cobra 1 - 4 are on the "Cobra Utilities for DOOM & DOOM II" - CD, too. I'm searching for level designers, that are interested in creating maps for this release. This would make releasing "COBRA 5" faster than only me working on the maps. 68 maps are the aim, 3 finished, i'm working on map 4 so there are 65 to go. Please send me an E-Mail and contact me, if you're interested in creating your map(s) for the "LAST" Cobra Release (COBRA 5) since Cobra 1 - 4 in 1994! Creator's names will be displayed in a text file, to the .WAD - file.
Wim's News
There is news on Terrere 2 and competition stuff. First of all Terrere 2 is almost finished, the monsters are already placed and the testers are busy testing. The competition is as active as before, with many new demos and the re-entry of the long feared Albert Valls. There is more so head on over to The Mole's Lair. You know it makes sense.
John Carmack's postarama
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John Carmack has posted another reply to a recent Slashdotarticle. The first reply he made discussed ATI's possible performance under the new Doom engine, and this one has a bit about the GeForce 3:There are several more Q3 engine games in the works that will continue to run great on existing systems, and Doom is still a long ways off in any case, so there will be a lot more upgrades and new systems. We are aiming to have a GF3 run Doom with all features enabled at 30 fps. We expect the high end cards at the time of release to run it at 60+ fps with improved quality. This is an intentionally lower average FPS for the hardware cross section than we targeted for Q3, but still higher than we targeted Q2 and earlier games (before hardware acceleration was prevalent).
Doom Centers Wadster of the week
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Karthik has reported that he is the Wadster of The Week over at DoomCenter. Along with being WOTW, he was interviewed about his wad making skills and so forth, the interview is supposedly the largest interview yet at Doom Center
GBA Doom Screen shots
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Over at computerandvideogames.com has a report on the offical Doom for GBA by activison which has 5 screenshots of the full version of original DooM!!! Check it out here
| Wednesday, August 1, 2001 |
Oblivion Update
Oblivion HQ has news on progress being made and outlines what they are hoping to achieve. There is also a mention of artwork to be posted soon. So slap on your reading specs and toddle over to Oblivion HQ and read the update.
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