DOOM ftp is still out there ...
Jim Pitts
This is just a note to remind everyone that Doom ftp is still out there.
I will maintain infant2.sphs.indiana.edu as long as I am feeling generous
enough to donate the resources, or until it becomes a problem.
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Chuck Sturgeon
==>
==>This is just a note to remind everyone that Doom ftp is still out there.
==>I will maintain infant2.sphs.indiana.edu as long as I am feeling generous
==>enough to donate the resources, or until it becomes a problem.
==>
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It is a shame more people aren't using this site, I have no
problems getting there, getting what I need (except hot off
the editor wads). Thanks for the site, it is getting used.
chuck
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MacDuff Knox
>This is just a note to remind everyone that Doom ftp is still out there.
>I will maintain infant2.sphs.indiana.edu as long as I am feeling generous
>enough to donate the resources, or until it becomes a problem.
Since OCF is going down will it be possible to upload things to this site? I
just tried and got an access denied message. (maybe I'm just not fated to get
my level onto the net, I acn't seem to get through to wuarchive either.)
Duffy
Jim Pitts
error here.
In article <dknox.11...@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>,
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MacDuff Knox
>From: dk...@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (MacDuff Knox)
>Subject: Re: DOOM ftp is still out there ...
>Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 15:00:52 GMT
>Duffy
Ignore this (boy do I feel like an idiot) I just couldn't find the incoming
directory. I couldn't spell "can't" either. Ok so its been a bad week, so sue
me. (or just ignore anything I say, that would work too) Enough babbling.
Signing off.
Duffy
Eddie Nguyen
set for single player mode. It replaces e2m1, and it will hopefully be the
first in a series of related WADs. The general storyline is that those
hostile demons have started construction of a clandestine base on Deimos.
Your job is to infiltrate, eliminate, and escape alive with a map of the
base, codename Uca Base.
This is a challenging but very fair WAD. No tricky puzzles to
solve, no cyber this or spider that. It takes me about 35 minutes to
complete the whole thing with 100% across the boards, but then again, I
happen to be familar with the layout. :-)
Anyways, I will be uploading it shortly to the Doom site, which for
now seems to be off-line. However, in the meantime, I would be happy to
send a copy of uca.wad to anyone who wishes it by email.
Thanks for your time! Happy hunting!
Eddie
angu...@raphael.acpub.duke.edu
Joe Popp
> Hi! I have just completed my first WAD. It's about 160k
160k? That's no level, that's a freakin' episode!
cYcLoPs
Stile
: Anyways, I will be uploading it shortly to the Doom site, which for
: now seems to be off-line. However, in the meantime, I would be happy to
: send a copy of uca.wad to anyone who wishes it by email.
: Thanks for your time! Happy hunting!
OCF.UNT.EDU is down permanently, which stinks. Please e-mail me your wad!
Jonathan Hensey-Altfeld
=> In article <2qr0m5$7...@news.duke.edu>, angu...@acpub.duke.edu (Eddie Nguyen) writes:
=> > Hi! I have just completed my first WAD. It's about 160k
=>
=> 160k? That's no level, that's a freakin' episode!
You'll be seeing more of these in the coming weeks. Like Eddie's PWAD, and
several others, people are building large PWADs.
I am "days" away from completing a > 200k PWAD, probably will top out at ~250k,
modeled after an office building. Initial reviews are very positive overall.
I'm not tooting my horn; I prefer to avoid saying "Gee my PWAD's great but you're
not getting it yet" kinds of things; please don't take it that way. Just saying
that there are some biiig PWADs coming.
:)
- Jonathan
Jeff Hayes
and just thought I would like to check out another editor.
Anyone have a complete URL or site name:/path for me?
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Christian A Carollo
of the bigger wads I've played are SOOOOO slow merely because of their size
(ss27beta comes to mind). Plus, size of a wad really means nothing. I
actually prefer smaller, well thought out levels. I generally think that id
maxxed out how big wads should be with E2M2 and E2M7 (approx 180K each I
think). IMHO of course...
-Chris
Jonathan Hensey-Altfeld
=> I'm not so sure these huge wads are good things. Why not split them up? Some
=> of the bigger wads I've played are SOOOOO slow merely because of their size
=> (ss27beta comes to mind). Plus, size of a wad really means nothing. I
=> actually prefer smaller, well thought out levels. I generally think that id
=> maxxed out how big wads should be with E2M2 and E2M7 (approx 180K each I
=> think). IMHO of course...
=>
=> -Chris
Chris, the speed of the WAD has to do with the amount of information visible
at any one point in time. The size of the WAD overall should only affect
the the time it takes the DOOM engine to load the level into memory; this is
the time it takes to START the game. Once you're moving, the size of the PWAD
does not affect the speed in any significant way. Early reviews of my large
Pwad show no slowdown on 486/33's, which have shown slowdown on smaller PWADS.
Sorry to trounce your opinion!
Size of the wad alone means nothing, I agree with you. If the large size is
one effect of the well-thought-out level, then it might mean a lot to leave it
large. Righto?
- Jonathan
Christian A Carollo
could make the level larger, becuase the BSP tree is much larger, longer
polylist to traverse, etc...of course, if you've tested it and there wasn't
much noticable slowdown, I guess id did a hell of a job. :)
I guess just some of the huge pwads that had the major slowdowns also were very
complex and had a lot of transparent sidedefs, which I _know_ slows doom down.
Of course, if a bigger level means better layed out...more power to ya. :)
-Chris
Scott Amspoker
>I will maintain infant2.sphs.indiana.edu as long as I am feeling generous
>enough to donate the resources, or until it becomes a problem.
Thanks. It's been a long time since I've seen such a level of individual
enthusiasm and sharing of ideas, code, and information. Since this
started I've been reading books on virtual reality systems and digital
warping (texture mapping) theory. It's a refreshing change of pace
from the dry (but profitable) business oriented software with which
I earn my living.
I think it's obvious to all of us that virtual reality is an emerging
art form and will probably be the next billion-dollar industry. Cutting
off OCF was naive in the extreme and I find it ironic that it happened at
an educational institution. It's supposed to start there, not end there.
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Scott Amspoker
Let's not forget all those monsters who must be continually checked for
line-of-sight to the player and whose movements are updated even when they
are not visible.
Super-User
Whoa Whoa whoa everybody.
Before you read this: please note:
(1) I am a *major* doom fan
(2) I am not affiliated with OCF, or the new ftp site.
I disagree with you, Scott, in saying that cutting off OCF was naive
in the extreme. I would think the reason they disabled the doom access was
because of system resources. If the host that had the doom directory was on the
OCF backbone, then all systems not separately bridged off of the backbone will
suffer the addition of all the traffic us internetters add. There is only
so much bandwidth on their ethernet. More traffic = slower response time for
all users on their network on the same segment.
Even if their internet ftp site was bridged (filtered) from their
main backbone, the host may be the same computer that students use to
compile their programs, and do other school related things. If it was the
same computer, (or if this was an NFS accessed drive from other computers
on campus,) everybody suffers a performance degredation. Just think..
you're a student working on your senior project, trying to get it to
compile, on OCF.UNT.EDU (or whatever the host was... rest in peace),
and 30 people are currently downloading doomv1.2.zip. Performance
really goes down, and everybody complains, which is probably how they noticed
it in the first place.
I would bet that it was taken down for these reasons, as opposed to
some adminstrator over there saying: "Hey, there's a shareware game on
OCF?? Shut it all down!!!!!"
Geez. I'm not really sure why I'm defending their decision, because
I wish it was still up... but saying it was naive of them, or worse, is
really incorrect.