Doom-1 Redux

[Ed P]

Coming early next year — a new wad containing new levels for the original Doom. The paid-for fan boxes include John Romero’s head on a spike!

More info:

here

and here

[PlaneMan]

First time I saw a gaming PC was at a mates house when he was in uni, his parents gave him the £ for a PC for uni work. It only ever played Doom for about a year. That game nearly cost him his degree. ?

Many an hour spent in his house after a night at the uni bar trying to progress in Doom and getting nowhere. ?

[Dave Rice]

It coincided with my first official IT job and our spanking new Ethernet network and 486 PCs. Saturday morning was Doom time.

[wasbit]

Thanks Ed, but your first link =

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I don’t swear in text but they can go to hell.

Managed Doom 3 with the aid of a walkthrough. Still don’t know how to find most of the cabinet unlocking codes.

 

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Regards
wasbit

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[Ed P]

Re Oath — fair point, but like me you can always use Private Browsing and set your browser to forget. Then they can ask what they like and just get nowhere!

EDIT – or if you use Python it is pretty easy to set Chrome up in a one-time box – see the Python code I posted here:

[keith with the teef]

I remebmer my gaming rig of the ( 2004 original Doom 3 release date) time had x2 GB of DDR2 @ £100 per stick and you can now get DDR4.

4GB for less than £30

The stuff of wee childrens dreams. Ram that is not Doom.

[Ed P]

I actually think Oath breaks GDPR as it is almost impossible to select anything except AGREE!

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

I dont think its fair that you can still effectivley die in DOOM 3 with all the console cheats switched on ???

Get knocked into a pool of lava ? Pah !

[D-Dan]

I finished the original Doom. Tried one of the modern ones a couple of years ago, Scared the carp out of me so I gave up.

Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.

[Tippon]

The Classic Doom mod for Doom 3 is still one of my favourite games. I’m going to have to install it again 😀

I convinced my father to buy me a sound card and CD ROM package from PC World for £170, just so that I could play Doom. It was the first time that I’d ever upgraded a computer, and getting the sound card set up in DOS while also freeing up enough base memory is what got me hooked on computers 🙂

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Ah yes free base memory, sore point.

I was chronically short on disk space so I enabled Microsoft Double Space on my drive and used it for a couple of weeks before trying to play a game.

That was when I found out that Double Space installed a driver that ate up a chunk of base memory and that it had to be loaded to access the disk. I could not free up enough base memory to play Doom any more and by then there was not enough free space on the disk to decompress it either !

[Tippon]

I used to have a custom boot floppy for every game I played, and they’d all run a custom autoexec.bat including Memmaker with various options so that I could get things to run 😀

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

So did I but they still had to include the Double Space driver or the HD was a no show ?

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Today I would just copy a load of stuff off the HD and decompress it but what would I copy it to back then ? The other thing was a fair amount of my software was “Ahem” borrowed so I couldnt just delete it either because I didnt have the disks. I didnt finally solve the problem until I could afford a second hard drive. A massive 320MB for £275 if I remember correctly ?

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