September 2001
| Friday, September 28, 2001 |
Recess Shots
The Doomers Recess has updated with this:I recently finished E4M4 for "2002 - A DooM Odyssey" with a little assistance for some error eradicating from team leader Paul Corfiatis. Turned out to be a very good level with a distinct Episode 4 atmosphere and gameplay. Even the name is truly Episode 4'ish: "Disreputable Stronghold"; quite a good name if you ask me... On top of this there are a couple of jDoom screenshots as well.
Karthik's Had The Paint Out
Be careful as you enter Karthik's DOOM Pages as there are still nails and tins of paint lying around. Karthik decided that the old place needed sprucing up and redesigned it. But that is not all as the Reviews Page has two new additions, both are maps of Wim Vanrie's. Terrere02: Spookyness Guaranteed and Dead Simple: Revisited. Read up on these and check out the new site at Karthik's DOOM Pages.
Bone Shots
Viperboy has updated by pasting up four screenshots of Bone Match v2.0.
Reol Tough
George has and said that Hall of Horrors should be done by mid october. This is due to George getting back into the fray of editing. The forums are down on REoL TOUGH at the moment and this is due to an attack on the site recently.
Team Kill News
Ike sent along an email saying that he has stopped work on Bubblegum Crisis Doom. It was not quite going in the direction that he wanted and he could not seem to get it back on track. On the Kill front there are some screenshots of E2M6. Head along to Team Kill.
| Thursday, September 27, 2001 |
Redesigns And Releases
Anthony Soto has update and redesign his page Swedish Fish's Doom Site. First of all there is an announcement of the release of Slayer by Richard Wiles. This was then removed from the site because it had rather a lot of bugs in it. But don't let that out you off a visit because there is other stuff to see including Top Ten SP Wad Releases of 2000 and a cooperative movie Laszlo Vecsei and Anthony did for The Classic Episode.
| Wednesday, September 26, 2001 |
Way-Hey It's SDA
Opulent's Speed Demos Archive has more demo goodies for you. This begins with demos for Doug's entry to Metabolist's competition. There are also some maxdemos made by Espi for his Laitos map. Loads more at SDA.
| Tuesday, September 25, 2001 |
The Darkest Hour
The Darkest Hour has updated with this:I'm gathering ideas for Zkorpien and should have some pictures soon. Although it will be very different from A Hex on You, Zkorpien will have the same medieval scheme. I'm basing the architecture on well-known landmarks in Europe and the U.S. Oh, and as has been the case in my recent projects, Zkorpien will be for ZDooM.
On the writing front, I am pleased to report that my newest short story is complete. Based on E3M1, Hell Keep, it recounts the adventures of Cpt. Vladimir Ivanovitch as he plunges into the dark world code-named "Inferno".
Karthik's Files Get Loaded
In fact they have been Uploaded to the Review Centre. We do not allow drunk wad files at Newdoom. You will have to use this link as the ones on Karthik's DOOM Pages still point to MGE files. Karthik is also in the middle of redesigning his site which will be done soon and so will all of the links.
Stimpack-Team's New Site
Janizdreg sent word to say that the page for the Stimpack-Team has opened. The site is mainly being used as an archive site as the teams last project was released two years ago. Janizdreg has been working on some new ZDoom config scripts which can be downloaded from Stimpack-Team.
GL Friendly
Andrew Apted sent along news that glBSP version 1.95 has been released. The biggest feature in this version is the new GUI version for Windows and Linux. It also supports wads with non-standard level names plus fixes for Hexen wads.
| Sunday, September 23, 2001 |
Skin Up Time Again
The Epidermis Emporium has updated with the news that all of the skins are now uploaded and that the Emporium is now back in business.
Brotherly Love
The Brotherhood Of Ruin site has updated with this information:A week ago I ran into a dead-end with the final level and have been thinking a new ending for the level for a couple of days. Yesterday, it took form in my head and it'll take a couple of days for me to make it. Well, no boring demon-spitter ending this time. I'm completely fed up with the demon-spitter in the end of most multi-level wads that I've played so a no no for the demon-spitter in BoR. The final level takes place as map07 so that leaves me many options about what to make as the ending. I just lllloove those mancubuses. ;-) And then the final beta-test and after that, release!
Eight Out Of Ten
Thats not a score. It is in fact the eighth week out of ten in Metabolist's mapping comp. Check it out at Metabolist's Site.
Nimrod At Place Of Doom
Kurt Kesler has updated A Place of Doom with news that his kzdoom8 map and his ZDoomgl map has been put off for a while. This is mainly due to work on his Nimrod map. Kurt describes it as having 'Legacy features being used to the extreme'. Which can't be a bad thing. There are also two screenshots to check out and they are really worth a butchers.
Doom Heavan Release
Doom Heaven has two new releases called Mystic1 and Mystic2. They are two deathmatch levels which use some of the great legacy features. There is also a sneek preview of a new DM level.
| Saturday, September 22, 2001 |
Bone Match Beat 2.0
Viperboy sent along an email to say that the Bone Match beta 2.0 version is now available.
| Thursday, September 20, 2001 |
Informative Update
Eternity has released some news on what to expect from the next beta version of the Eternity engine. Added to the usual bug fixes are these little gems:- Fully functional dialogue system
- New FraggleScript interpreter.
- Thing Type Definitions. This is the first module of the Eternity Definition Files.
- Particle system.
- ExtraData -- Extended, backwards-compatible map format enhancement that will enable most Hexen-style effects and make FraggleScript easier to use.
Espi's Update
Espi's Site has made a small update to say that he has made a new version of his laitos.wad. Plus Espi has also been working on the Guns PC which will have some extra/improved stuff. The next version of this will be released when the next version of EDGE is released.
Wim's Mini Contest Opens
Before you get the wrong idea this is not a contest to win a Mini. Just thought I would clarify that. Anyway the new contest is now on over at the The Mole's Lair and this one was suggested by Albert Valls and is similar to the first phtga.wad mini-contest. The aim being to record an UV Max move of level 13, 14, 15 and 16 using a different weapon on each level (choose between 3, 4, 5 and 6). Shooting once with the wrong weapon is a failed demo, so be careful. The ending date is 7 october. catch this and more in the latest update at The Mole's Lair.
Bone Match v2.0 Soon
Bone Match version 2.0 nears beta stage. Viperboy just needs to add the final touches and fix one or two bugs in the map. There are also new weapons and these are Akimbo pistols and Pikachu. Two new enemies also make an appearance.
| Wednesday, September 19, 2001 |
Doomsday Engine Update
skyJake's Doomsday Engine has been updated to version 1.03. Here are the major changes:* Color-translated sprites had invalid texture coordinates (some sprites disappeared).
* A warning is displayed if no IWAD has been specified at startup.
* Multiplayer setup uses Small Fonts in low-resolution modes. This new version is the same one that can be found in the newly-released jHeretic 1.0. Head to jDoom for more info, or directly to the Review Center for the download.
Brave New World Announced
Ourumov from over at our GoldenEyeDoom2 hosted site informs us of a new upcoming conversion "James Bond 007: Brave New World" by CeeJay. This will be a Zdoom 1.22 conversion, with original levels and new weapons, etc.Progress also continues on the standard DEH and EDGE version of GoldenEye. Once the new soldier and scientist graphics are finished up, another major version of GoldenEye will soon be released. For more info, head on over to the GoldenEyeDoom2 site!
| Saturday, September 15, 2001 |
Wim's Whopping Update
Wim Vanrie has updated his page with news that all of his files are now uploaded to the review centre. This includes his latest releases of Terrere 02 and Dead Simple: Revisited. The competition has slowed a little but that has not stopped Albert Valls sending in some demos and pushing Doug Merrill into second place. The new mini-contest is getting delayed slightly due to lack of ideas. So, if you have any, send them in to Wim. All this at The Mole's Lair
More jDoom News!
Our friend skyJake updated the jDoom site for the SECOND time in one day! Here's the jist:I finally finished writing the XG Reference. It's on the Files page in PDF format, so all you level designers get your Acrobat Readers at the ready! I added a couple of new features to the XG specification, so everything in the Reference isn't supported by 1.1 (ltc_sound, function chains and exact values are missing from 1.1). Head on over again to the jDoom site, and roll the beautiful Extended General Line and Sector Type Reference footage.
jDoom A3D Bugfix
Latest news from skyJake over on the jDoom site, is that v1.1 has a bug with A3D support. It seems there is some kind of a conflict with fmod; so, if you're using A3D, use the -nofmod command-line option. Please see the jDoom site for more details.
| Friday, September 14, 2001 |
Is This The End Of Pablo?
Diabolique is a new site set up by Pablo for what will be his alst project for Doom for a while. The project is an Ultimate Doom episode with possible music coming from Fanatic. Head over to Diabolique.
Mr Rocket's DM Lift Off
Okay lame headline but if his last work is anything to go by the latest map from Mr Rocket will not be. It's called PLEXYDOME DM and is a 3d deathmatch fest using all the latest features of Doom Legacy. Go for a gander at Mr Rocket.
X-Doom's Screenies
X-DOOM has some screenshots for you of ZD3K. The shots are from the map03 Engeneering Room. The map is almost finish and when there are five maps X-DOOM will release them as a demo. Head over to X-Doom for the shots.
| Thursday, September 13, 2001 |
Very Real Day Of Infamy
I sat there watching the Fox News channel in abject disbelief as the towers imploded and collapsed like so many paper streamers. If this isn't a declaration of war, I don't know what is. We pray for everyone who has been harmed by these cowardly orchestrated terrorist attacks. I am confident that whatever steps need to be taken to make sure whomever the cowards are responsible for this will be repaid in force for bringing Pearl Harbor into the 21st century. All we can do is wait and see what happens next .....
| Wednesday, September 12, 2001 |
Newest Reviews
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We've just approved two new Review Center file entries (CH Retro, a Single Player Map and Tech-Lab, a Deathmatch Map ), so be sure to check them out!
Goldeneye
Goldeneye Doom2 has updated with some new screenshots of upcoming updated Bunker and Archives levels. There are also shots of the new weapons also.
| Tuesday, September 11, 2001 |
New Doom Review Center Has Arrived!
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We are proud to announce that our New Doom Review Center is up and you've guessed it, running, so you might want to check it out! There you can find, read about, upload, download and review all of the user-made creations from the entire community! They are already some news submission to it for some of our hosted site so be sure, not to miss that out!
| Monday, September 10, 2001 |
Download Then Add A Bit
Jason Root sent us some information on a small competition thats not unlike one run by The Doomers Recess. Hellbent has made a map and you download it then add on a room. The best entries will then be kept and uploaded for everyone to have another go. More information at Demise.
Doombot 5.1
Sergey Makovkin was the original programmer on Doombot but this update of it is courtesy of Vincent Ho. This adds some new features including dehacked support and different DM modes. It's available from cdrom.com.
Source: DW.
| Sunday, September 9, 2001 |
Metabolist's Contest
Metabolist's Site has updated with two entries in this weeks contest. You can view them both on the contest page.
jDoom Patch
Jaakko sent us an email to say that a new patch has been released for JDoom. This brings it up to Version 1.1 which includes newstuff, bug fixes and tweaks. You can find the full list at the JDoom homepage.
| Saturday, September 8, 2001 |
GG Inc
GG INC has a whole host of stuff to look out this time around with news on the database driven GG Inc. Which is on it's way to completion. Also news on Doom Millenium and the tweaking of MBF's friendly AI.
DSV OutWorld
DSV Outworld has updated with Kaiser reporying that he has now made the site easier to navigate. He has also added new pics of DSV 4 and added a Legacy tutorial section. Eleven levles have already been finished and a demo is coming soon.
Warming Up
Doom Inferno has warmed up again after a month of cooled activity with news that Varun has been working on some winamp skins and recording some demos.
REoL Tough News
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King REol from The REol_Tough website has done a commentary on DooM III, and why it will not live up to the hype of the original DooM did back in the day. Go check it out @ The REol_Tough Website
Brad Helps Out
Brad Spencer's Maps-Demos has updated with this little piece of information.Instead of releasing Hellcore unfinished, Rob Babor actually asked me to help with making a map or two. Several other people have joined the Hellcore project also to do music/gfx. I completed 4 race tracks for Graphic State's racecar game, and fixed up my quake1 level, check my levels section for Subterranea. Erm, that's about it.
Randy Posts Blood
I saw this on the Zdoom forums posted by Randy Heit:I just thought I'd mention to anyone reading this that if you have Blood installed on your computer, you will be able to configure the next release of ZDoom to use the Bloodbath announcer. Adding that was pretty fun, and I think it makes deathmatch more interesting. :-)
| Friday, September 7, 2001 |
Doomfan's New Site
Doomfan sent us along an email to say that he has just put up his new site. There is also his first wad there called Freekill. See all this at Doomfan's Site.
| Wednesday, September 5, 2001 |
Epsi's New Level
Espi's Site hs updated with the release of a level called laitos.wad. There is also one screenshot of a map he is making called Ruoste. More to read at Espi's Site.
Opulent
Opulent's Speed Demos Archive hits 10,000 and there is a screenshot thanks to Albert Valls. On the demo side of things Chris Ratcliff, Anthony Soto, Martin Schultz, and Wim Vanrie did a demoset for the 2001-e1 episode. Also Donatas Tamonis did an entire max demoset for Darkening. All this and a dustbin load more at Opulent's Speed Demos Archive
PC Pro
In the october edition of PC Pro there is an article called "100 Ideas That Changed Computing". Well you can probably already guess that Doom gets a good mention in there. But more interesting, Well I thought so, was the piece about the first appearence of the Voodoo 3dfx card. The picture that was used to illustrate the article was also a Doom shot using .md2 models.
| Monday, September 3, 2001 |
Eternity Enemies
The Eternity page has been updated with this little lot:The Death Imp has been readded to the Eternity Enemies page, with a view of a different, newly completed rotation, and more up-to-date information on his spells and skills. I, Quasar, have personally undertaken the completion of this sprite, which belongs to what should become one of the scariest enemies in a DOOM TC since those Aliens > 
Compet-N
The Compet-n site has updated as Adam has been taking a break. Anyway now he is back and has updated with 75 demos.
Karthiks Review Bonanza
Karthik has just finished his biggest review job with a total of sixteen levels being reviewed. Fifteen of these were from the Doom Centre episode one comp and the other was from Sam 'Metabolist' Woodman called Ockham Complex. For all the stuff above pop along to Karthik's DOOM Pages. It will change your life. Maybe.
New Vavoom
Not being one to rest on his laurels Janis has now released v1.9 of Vavoom. The main addition in this release is support for .md2 models but as well as this objects can support up 8 sounds. For more head to Vavoom.
Halls Of Horror Delayed
George posted some rather bad news this morning. The news being that he has recently lost his job and due to this the Halls of Horror has been delayed. There is more information on this at REoL TOUGH
Moving Along.
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Rellik from Team Deim has informed us that he has moved their website to www.teamdeim.com, so they will sadly no longer be hosted at NewDoom.com. We wish them all the best with their projects and happy Dooming!
| Sunday, September 2, 2001 |
DoomarenA News
Yo fellers! Our buddy FACE.UK at Doomarena has updated about his Star Trek TC. It is now underway and looks great. All the info you need is over on the news page at the ArenA ™, so check it out!.
Gamestar's Quakecon Video
Marcofrom quake.de sent us news that Gamestar, a German magazine, has footage from QuakeCon showing John carmack speaking then the game itself with a pinky moving in the shadows of a bathroom. For legal reasons the video is not available for download.
| Saturday, September 1, 2001 |
Robocop Returns
Robocop Doom springs into action with a new screenshot and a small news update.
Metabolist's Anniversary
Metabolist's Site updates with the mention that no new entries were recieved for the fifth week of the contest that he has been running. Also getting a mention is some new stuff on the music page which Metabolist has contributed to Paul F.'s Invasion project.
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