1999 Doom Nostalgia - YouTube find "What I found by watching a twenty-year-old Doom II deathmatch"

Agret on 10/08/2017 - 22:17
Last edited 10/08/2017 - 22:18

Just stumbled across this video through YouTube recommendations, "What I found by watching a twenty-year-old Doom II deathmatch"

It's quite an interesting retrospective on some aspects of the "scene" that existed in 1999

Here's the link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1QYD8Dz2FE

I personally have many fond memories of playing DOOM & DOOMII on the family computer back in the 90s then I clocked some serious time playing it in high school around 2005-2007 using the excellent program Doom Connector you can play it online co-op to this day (or deathmatch but that was never my thing since I was playing a lot of Quake 2 & Counter-Strike 1.5 at the time).

The website for Doom Connector is https://doomconnector.com and you can play it for free using freedoom which is a royalty free graphics replacement pack if you don't have a legal copy of the game you can use. Available here https://freedoom.github.io

There are hundreds of WAD files which are basically level packs or graphics replacements. They also ship many mods with DEH files which is a hack format that allows you to load in edited weapons so many mods will introduce lots of cool guns. The great thing about Doom Connector is it will automatically search the internet for these WAD/DEH files when you join a server so you can play heaps of varieties of game setups.

From his pinned comment on the video:

Had some great comments on the Doomworld and reddit threads:
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/94894-what-i-found-by-watching-a-twenty-year-old-doom-ii-deathmatch/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/6l6d9w/what_i_found_by_watching_a_doom_ii_deathmatch/

Was Doom a major game in anyone elses lives? Share your memories :)
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Comments

  • [Deactivated] on 11/08/2017 - 00:11
    +2

    definitely a very memorable game and before this it was the game wolfenstein 3d on our Pentium 386.

  • [Deactivated] on 11/08/2017 - 00:32

    Most of the source code gets released by Id, too.

    • Agret on 11/08/2017 - 01:00

      Yeah they have released the source code for Doom 1-3 & Quake 1-3.

      No source release for Quake Wars, Rage, Quake4, Doom2016

      • Kangal on 11/08/2017 - 02:40

        Original Doom can be played on anything, be it a calculator or your microwave.
        And of course, I missed out on that craze but at least I found Duke Nukem 3D, yay.
        However, Doom 2 was such a massive upgrade that it ushered in the need for dedicated graphics hardware.
        And then Quake 3, my favourite, took it to another level by having fleshed out 3D and making Multiplayer fun.

        I wasn't a fan of Doom3, was too dark for my liking, but it did show us early on how future games would look.
        It was really scalable too, from a cut-down version running on the original Xbox… to an enhanced version running on the Xbox One.
        The next leap in graphics to showcase future games didn't come until another 3-years later with the original Crysis.

        I sort of wished they would release the source code, or an alternative open-source, for GTA (3/VC/SA).

  • marquise on 11/08/2017 - 02:29
    +2

    Good commentary.
    I'm surprised you played it so much in 2005! I was playing it in 1996 I think.
    This is what I recall from that era:
    Getting soundblaster soundcard - OMG everythig sounds amazing
    Wolfenstein 3D - Wow!
    Doom - Whoah!
    Duke Nukem 3D - Holy sht! There's strippers!

    Excitement levels increased only marginally after that. Not just in gaming, but life in general.

    • Agret on 11/08/2017 - 09:47

      Using sourceports the graphics are decent and they put many quality of life features in like mouse aiming even though the sprites look odd from some angles I found the core gameplay still holds up really well.

      Nothing beats the fear of hitting a switch, a wall coming down and then 5 cyberdemon start shooting rockets at you and an archvile in the background begins to burn you. Gotta run fast!

    • Euphemistic on 11/08/2017 - 10:22
      +1

      Me too. Pretty much stopped 'serious' gaming after Duke Nukem.

      I still have a Duke Nukem sound clip for message alert on my phone. "Get back to work you slacker"

      • marquise on 11/08/2017 - 12:30

        …and nothing in life was as big a disappointment as Duke Nukem Forever!

  • scrimshaw on 11/08/2017 - 03:30

    I've actually never played Doom, but I did own a pirated copy of Quake which I played for several years (it was all I could play on a lowly Pentium MMX processor with 32 megabytes of RAM)

    Doom 2016 is awesome though.

  • Architectonic on 11/08/2017 - 06:35
    +1

    2003 was where it's at (Morrowind).

  • Clear on 11/08/2017 - 09:13
    +1

    Doom was my childhood. I still have original copies in sealed boxes and even some older versions on shareware discs.

  • marquise on 11/08/2017 - 12:35

    I have a question related to that era of gaming, sort of prior to the internet. Basically I bought a shareware copy of Doom and it wouldn't run on my x486. Then my geek friend edited the batch file to reallocate memory so it would work and I was wrapped.
    Then in Year 11/12 there were guys who got around the PC security to play Doom.

    This was a different era where you couldn't just google anything. How did these guys know how to do this stuff? Was it trial and error learning or were they learning from bulletin boards?

    • Agret on 11/08/2017 - 13:54
      +1

      Software/motherboard manuals used to be much more comprehensive and was not uncommon to be the size of a small book. Once you learn the trick about memory allocation for one piece of software you can re-use that knowledge :)

      Getting around the PC security could be as simple as renaming DOOM.EXE to NOTEPAD.EXE depending on how it was configured.

      • Euphemistic on 11/08/2017 - 14:37
        +1

        I learnt stuff by trying, and learning from mates. The software seemed a lot less complex to, sort of stand alone rather than infiltrating the bowels of your operating system with settings that just end up slowing things down.

  • [Deactivated] on 11/08/2017 - 15:23

    I remember going down to the family computer for a 15 minute break from studying to check my email on PINE using the 9600bps modem.

    4 hours later after playing Wolfenstein I'd be back studying :)

  • Nutrino on 11/08/2017 - 21:02
    +1

    Null modem cable anyone?

  • horsome on 12/08/2017 - 00:14
    +1

    The 90s truly was the golden age of gaming, PC games were awesome, console games were awesome. It's like every few months there was something that looked nothing like what was out there before and it was exciting!!!

    It's only really been graphical advancements since…

  • TheBilly on 12/08/2017 - 11:09

    Very major, there was Doom, Wolfenstein, Commander Keen, Original CS (1.1). Still remember the doom god mode and all weapons codes.IDDQD / IDKFA. I was a child and too (profanity) to die and play fairly lol

  • Agret on 12/08/2017 - 15:46

    Found this post on Reddit that discusses how to get started with classic doom and links to this old 4chan guide on some of the better mods.

    http://i.imgur.com/6qpjYbf.jpg

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