Ominous cowl on 21/2/2007 at 23:59
Let us wait for ZB muttering another insightful tad from above.
Martek on 22/2/2007 at 01:52
Quote Posted by sparhawk
The try to get a copy of original Doom I today and laugh as much as you like.
Can't you pretty much get it free (and legal) from any number of places - or at least source-compatible versions and remakes / souped up versions / modernized versions, etc?
Admittedly I haven't googled it out or anything, but I thought the Doom I "world" was alive and kicking - just an impression (perhaps incorrect) formed from various web forum posts here and there, and the occasional link to some Doom I "fan site" with all kinds of Doom stuff freely available.
Is that incorrect?
Martek
Yandros on 22/2/2007 at 02:03
According to (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom) Wikipedia, Doom was originally released as shareware. It's easy to find a downloadable version - getting it to run in a playable way on a modern PC may be another story, though (no I haven't tried).
Thelvyn on 22/2/2007 at 02:17
Yea it was released as shareware first. It was a hot download from BBS's at the time. There was no internet at the time at least for the general public.
Fortunately I still have my copy of doom and doom2 although I haven't played them in ages. Buried somewhere in my stacks of cds/dvds I would imagine.
Yes before the internet there WAS something to do online. Play games on a BBS!
Yandros on 22/2/2007 at 02:41
I started on BBS's in 1986 and stayed with them until the early 90's, when I found MUDs. I still admin on a MUD even to this day, although our active users now number in the single digits. I'll never forget the day a few years ago when one of my best friends, who happens to be an admin on (
http://www.fark.com/) Fark, posted a link to it as a news item and we got tens of thousands of hits to the website and hundreds of new characters created in a single day.
Jashin on 22/2/2007 at 12:43
Back to topic: How's TDM coming? I'd like to check out the WIP editor if it's available.
sparhawk on 22/2/2007 at 14:18
Quote Posted by Martek
Can't you pretty much get it free (and legal) from any number of places - or at least source-compatible versions and remakes / souped up versions / modernized versions, etc?
You can still get the shareware version for free, and also the code. But I think that the assets were never been given for free. So if you would like to play the original Doom you would have to purchase a copy. If you just want to get the game and play some fanmaps with it, you could do it for free.
Quote:
Admittedly I haven't googled it out or anything, but I thought the Doom I "world" was alive and kicking - just an impression (perhaps incorrect) formed from various web forum posts here and there, and the occasional link to some Doom I "fan site" with all kinds of Doom stuff freely available.
Of course you can get it from a lot of sources still, but the point is that you can't get an original copy just as easy.
SD on 22/2/2007 at 18:44
Is there any reason why you would need an "original" copy? (what does that even mean?)
Are you saying that The Dark Mod will only work on full-price editions of Doom 3 and not on the budget re-release?
Spitter on 22/2/2007 at 19:54
stop
