   DOOM is not dead
  for DOOM fans that haven't heard of this:http://www.doomsdayhq.comit's an engine with that you can play doom 1&2, hexen and heretic in windows, with high resolution, up/down looking, jumping, dynamic light effects, particles and other stuff.also download and install the md2 model pack and detail textures pack, and doom is turned into a real 3D game  ,  d/l and install "doom connector" (link is somewhere on the site I think) and go play doom online :DI recommend to set the ambient light a bit higher...and be sure to set filter/mipmap to linear, otherwise distant stuff will look crappy.(you'll need the oroginal games. for doom 1&2, version 1.9 is needed)[edited by - unshavenbastard on February 12, 2004 10:15:25 AM][edited by - unshavenbastard on February 12, 2004 10:57:05 AM]
quote: DOOM is not deadIt needs to be. ;  Doomsday is very cool indeed..I was using it for some time, until it began crashing. ;(   shortcurves.com | /josh;  yspotua:noooo. it's fun to play old games sometimes. a couple of weeks ago I played lemmings :DIt's cool to play those old levels that you know sooo good but you can do things that you couldn't in the original game, like actual aiming, jump back on a wall from that you fell instead of having to go back all the way to get on it again or jump on some higher place where you had to go a very different way without being able to jump.Of some old games I really like the level design, as in BLOOD (the 1st part), which I got at eBay last week. Heh THAT'S a sick game, I didn't play it when it came out, I only knew blood 2 and that was crap I think...But now, blood 1 is one of my favorite shooters ever. The athmosphere is cool, and it's sooooo sick *lol*If someone made a real 3D version out of blood, be sure I'd play that. Cool level design, despite of limited engine, sinister athmosphere, but the gameplay is disturbed by the limited graphics engine.    [edited by - unshavenbastard on February 12, 2004 10:31:13 AM];  Not very quick on the ball are ya?  There are a lot of Doom engines out there.  To name a few:ZDoomDoom95DoomLegacyZDaemon(just to name a few)Many of these new engines use OpenGL/DirectX to render, and I think one of them uses OpenAL.  So, Doom is not dead by a long ways.   [edited by - yummy_potatoes on February 12, 2004 11:24:51 AM];  I think DOOM Legacy is still the best hobbyist engine.And DOOM doesn''t need to die; I still have fun playing DOOM II on my LAN.  Resist everyoneI am your only friend. Click here for more information. (MOVED);I tried ZDoom, DoomLegacy, (Z)DoomGL and doomsday.I must say that Doomsday is by far the best. At least the current version is pretty stable, the other mentioned ports had lots of bugs when I tried them, and they didn''t have support for detail textures, it looks much better with those, of course.I just tried to create a "doom connector" account. the thing downloaded some dll files for updating, but then couldn''t connect to server... hm, hope the site is only temporarily down, I want play doom online !! :D;  I wonder if it could work with this I Want My Island"Luck is for people without skill."- Robert (I Want My Island) ;quote:Original post by black_mage_s  I wonder if it could work with this I remember reading about that a while ago. I''m interested to see whats become of it. ;  The real problem with Doomsday is the unbelievably slow MD2 loader it uses. It takes ~3 minutes to load on my PC: 2.4GHz P4, 256MB RAM, ATi Radeon 9000. Not good.As for the guy above about Blood: Blood is bloody fantastic. Sick, violent, totally over the top, and the best one-liners Now I have Connectix Virtual PC and Win95 installed on my PC (whee!) I can play Blood again in all its gory... er, glory! 