Hello All,

Are there any DOOMers about? I see John Romero is back at it again has put up a
wad file for download on his website, rome.ro. It's a level (or maybe a few, don't know yet) called sigil that needs DOOM to run.

I play it with prboom-plus like this..

cd /usr/local/games/doom
./prboom-plus -iwad doom.wad -file sigil.wad

I only had a quick look at and it seems rather dark, I don't think John Romero has mellowed out over the years.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Are there any DOOMers about? I see John Romero is back at it again has put

Which version of DOOM? Despite the aged graphics, 1 and 2 were enjoyable. 3 is a bit meh.. and 4 I haven't much played with.

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Hello Spectre,

Which version of DOOM? Despite the aged graphics, 1 and 2 were
enjoyable. 3 is a bit meh.. and 4 I haven't much played with.

It uses the original doom.wad.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Are there any DOOMers about? I see John Romero is back at it again has
put up a wad file for download on his website, rome.ro. It's a level (or maybe a few, don't know yet) called sigil that needs DOOM to run.

HOT DOG!!! Got them all off of GOG.com...so we can conjecture what I will be doing over the holidays. ;)

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I only had a quick look at and it seems rather dark, I don't think John Romero has mellowed out over the years.. :)

Got it!!! Thanks for putting the link up there.

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Al wrote to All <=-

Are there any DOOMers about? I see John Romero is back at it again has
put up a wad file for download on his website, rome.ro. It's a level
(or maybe a few, don't know yet) called sigil that needs DOOM to run.

I play every once in a while. There are some DOOM players hanging out on the DOOM echo on Fidonet. I just re-organized my start menu tiles and set up War Thunder, OpenArena, Quake, Quake2 and Zdoom in a Games group -- I'm mostly old-school gaming these days. :)
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I only had a quick look at and it seems rather dark, I don't
think John Romero has mellowed out over the years.. :)

Got it!!! Thanks for putting the link up there.

No worries.. DOOM on brother.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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I play every once in a while. There are some DOOM players hanging
out on the DOOM echo on Fidonet.

I think I'll go rattle those guys chain.

I just re-organized my start menu tiles and set up War Thunder,
OpenArena, Quake, Quake2 and Zdoom in a Games group -- I'm mostly old-school gaming these days. :)

Do you have an OpenArena server running there? I was looking at setting
up an OpenArea server but there is no example config and I couldn't find
any info on that although it's probably using a quake 3 config, more or
less.

I'm an old school gamer also. I wouldn't mind setting up newer stuff but
have no more free time for any of that.

I've been looking at setting up a server for OpenArena, UrbanTerror or AssaultCube. Sauerbraten also looks interesting. I may get that done if I
can ever decide which one to go with, or I might have to do a few.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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It uses the original doom.wad.

Ahh what does? Or do they all use the same wads? Last time I played was using zdoom.

Spec


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It uses the original doom.wad.

Ahh what does? Or do they all use the same wads? Last time I played
was using zdoom.

This new sigil.wad that John Romero has put up on his website, rome.ro.

The engine I use is prboom-plus but it should work with zdoom, gzdoom or
any of the doom engines I suppose.

Prboom-plus runs doom2 by default so I need to use a command like this to
run Sigil with prboom-plus..

./prboom-plus -iwad doom.wad -file sigil.wad

While I'm here I'll mention freedoom has just released updated wads for
doom, doom2 and also a death match wad.

https://freedoom.github.io

Ttyl :-),
Al

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AssaultCube. Sauerbraten also looks interesting. I may get that done if I

Whats the pickled meat for? I have space to run most of this stuff, if anyone thinks they want to use it. Once upon a twice I think I had 5 different game servers running.

Spec


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Whats the pickled meat for? I have space to run most of this
stuff, if anyone thinks they want to use it. Once upon a twice I
think I had 5 different game servers running.

Start with AssaultCube https://github.com/assaultcube/AC

There is a release version also at https://assault.cubers.net/ but I
find the client a bit buggy. The client I get when I build from the
source at github is good.


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I only had a quick look at and it seems rather dark, I don't
think John Romero has mellowed out over the years.. :)

No worries.. DOOM on brother.. :)

Actually...I play more Wolfenstein 3D than I do of Doom...but with a new WAD...will play it more. Used to love play Doom 2 with all of the mods back
in the day...especially the Xmas WAD's out there.

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Actually...I play more Wolfenstein 3D than I do of Doom...but with
a new WAD...will play it more. Used to love play Doom 2 with all of
the mods back in the day...especially the Xmas WAD's out there.

I do too but I haven't played in a while. I'm sure there are still
secrets to be found in there.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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On 14 Dec 2019, Al said the following...

Are there any DOOMers about? I see John Romero is back at it again has
put up a wad file for download on his website, rome.ro. It's a level (or maybe a few, don't know yet) called sigil that needs DOOM to run.

There was a limited run of a physical boxed release for this back in May
which included some collectibles. I found out about it a bit too late or I'd have probably ordered one.

It's an entire episode and it's more on the puzzle-y side, especially when it comes to unlocking secrets. Difficulty is fairly high as it likes to make you fight in confined spaces and it's kind of stingy with weapons and ammo.

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On 14 Dec 2019, Al said the following...

Hello All,

Are there any DOOMers about? I see John Romero is back at it again has
put up a wad file for download on his website, rome.ro. It's a level (or maybe a few, don't know yet) called sigil that needs DOOM to run.

I'm more of a Duke 3D person myself. I actually got around to playing a few
of those D3D maps I downloaded from Palantir BBS a while back - I liked
airpork but so far I can't figure out how to get past the nursing home or hospital at the end of it.

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Al wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Do you have an OpenArena server running there? I was looking at setting
up an OpenArea server but there is no example config and I couldn't
find any info on that although it's probably using a quake 3 config,
more or less.

Should be. I'm setting up a VPS, was thinking about setting a game server on it that I could host games on.

I'm an old school gamer also. I wouldn't mind setting up newer stuff
but have no more free time for any of that.

I play all the games I used to play when I *had* time! :)


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Nodoka Hanamura wrote to Al <=-

Are there any DOOMers about? I see John Romero is back at it again has
put up a wad file for download on his website, rome.ro. It's a level (or maybe a few, don't know yet) called sigil that needs DOOM to run.

I'm more of a Duke 3D person myself. I actually got around to
playing a few of those D3D maps I downloaded from Palantir BBS a
while back - I liked airpork but so far I can't figure out how to
get past the nursing home or hospital at the end of it.

Cool, cool. Glad you got some maps from me that were fun, and
thanks for the mention. I have a LARGE amount of
maps/levels/utils available for download, for Doom 1/2, Duke3D,
Quake/Q2, Heretic/Hexen, etc if anybody wants to grab some.

I spent a lot of hours back in the 90's on Doom 1/2 and then a LOT
MORE hours with Duke3d (first single player and then online with a
service called Kali). Nowadays you can play them on Steam. I
don't think I've ever played a game that I enjoyed more than
Duke3D... :-)



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Are there any DOOMers about? I see John Romero is back at it
again has put up a wad file for download on his website,
rome.ro. It's a level (or maybe a few, don't know yet) called
sigil that needs DOOM to run.

I just stumbled upon his site a few weeks ago. I had no idea he had a
site online. Really glad I stumbled upon it and wish I had stumbled upon
it sooner.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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I'm more of a Duke 3D person myself. I actually got around to
playing a few of those D3D maps I downloaded from Palantir BBS a
while back - I liked airpork but so far I can't figure out how to
get past the nursing home or hospital at the end of it.

I still have the big box on my shelf of Duke Nukem 3D atomic edition and
Shadow Warrior.. :)

I must visit Palantir BBS at some point and have a look at all that.

I have a bunch of directories to import into my new MagickaBBS but I keep seeing things like DM-1on1-Roughinery_ut99.zip so I think, well.. I
better have a look at that!

I should probably just stop and get that done but I am having a lot of
fun these days.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Do you have an OpenArena server running there? I was looking
at setting up an OpenArea server but there is no example
config and I couldn't find any info on that although it's
probably using a quake 3 config, more or less.

Should be. I'm setting up a VPS, was thinking about setting a game
server on it that I could host games on.

If you ever are ready for it, let us know where or how we can find them.
Most times I don't do a lot of gaming but given a bit of time I do go
looking once in a while.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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I do too but I haven't played in a while. I'm sure there are still
secrets to be found in there.

Me either. Working on this takes much of my time...which I'm happy about. Was over at GOG.com getting another free giveaway game in less than 2 weeks.
Found I had bought Ultimate Doom a long time ago...usually during their
sales. I'll have most of next week off...so am thinking about spending some quality time killing everything I can.

Made it through the original Wolfenstein 20+ years ago. Took me awhile one summer between school years...but that...Diablo 2 & Doom 2 (with cheat
codes). Did get angry when I completed Diablo 3 on the 360 & got more
irritated that I hadn't bought the expansion pak for the 360 instead...rather than the non-expansion game.

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On 14 Dec 2019 &4, Al said the following...

Hello All,

Are there any DOOMers about? I see John Romero is back at it again has
put up a
wad file for download on his website, rome.ro. It's a level (or maybe a few, don't know yet) called sigil that needs DOOM to run.

I play it with prboom-plus like this..

cd /usr/local/games/doom
./prboom-plus -iwad doom.wad -file sigil.wad

I only had a quick look at and it seems rather dark, I don't think John Romero has mellowed out over the years.. :)

It would be cool if somebody could download it and hatch it out on the
network.

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On 14 Mar 2020 at 07:57p, Gryphon pondered and said...

It would be cool if somebody could download it and hatch it out on the network.

When you read this, can you *please* check your blacklist.txt to see if you have my static IPs on your list. I have been unable to poll you and send
CRASH traffic for months :(

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17:21:18 Poll BINKP node via address lookup: 21:1/120
17:21:18 Queued 2 files (4,533 bytes) for 21:1/120
17:21:18 1-Polling 21:1/120 on slot 1 via BINKP
17:21:18 1-Connecting to cyberiabbs.zapto.org on port 24554
17:21:19 1-Connected by IPV4 to 54.193.66.229
17:21:19 1-Remote system is BUSY (Blocked)
17:21:19 1-Authorization failed
17:21:20 Polled 1 systems

[snip]

My IP address 219.89.83.33 and 2001:470:d:123::50 - thanks!

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Are there any DOOMers about? I see John Romero is back at it again ha put up a
wad file for download on his website, rome.ro. It's a level (or maybe few, don't know yet) called sigil that needs DOOM to run.

It would be cool if somebody could download it and hatch it out on the network.

Remember getting thru Doom 2 back in the mid-90's (even with using cheat codes). Was so content when I got thru it. Was the same feeling I had with Diablo 2. On the other hand...got thru Diablo 3 on the 360 without anything
but my disgust that I should have bought the expansion pak...rather than the normal copy. Asked myself was this the end of the game.

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