DOOM

Miscellany

DOOM Source Ports

The only one I've tried so far is Skulltag. Works well. Some notes...

• DOOM2 Client - Console command examples for jumping to a level: map map06 or map map14. Appears to drop you out of multiplayer mode.
• DOOM2 Server - To start at another level, before anybody joins: Admin > Change map... and enter a name like map06 or map14.
• To start as server: skulltag -host [ -private ] [ -file path/file.wad ] [ @inifile.rsp ]
• To start as client: skulltag [ -file path/file.wad ]
• queryiwad - Need to check this out.

Some of my own creations

So naturally when I got hooked on wad development, I built my wads with deathmatch in mind. But some of these are large enough to be enjoyed by a single player or cooperative group. The exits are usually easy to find since finding the exit was not an important goal. If you want to add to them, please do! Just be sure to give me some credit and send me a copy or tell me where I can get one - I'd love to try one of these with some unknowns thrown in.

La Unua Final version of my very first level.
Arena This one began as a simple square playing field, with an entry point at each corner. It got bigger.
Sewers The sewers have always been good to me. - Ed Norton
Falls Slimefalls, and places to fall.
Stones Under Construction
Fortress Under Construction

Words

• cupping
  At a previous job during the early days of Doom II, there were enough of us hooked on deathmatch to insure that a game was running every lunchtime, even when some of us were out of the office for one reason or another. If a player left the game momentarily, a trip to the men's room for example, the player sitting nearest his desk would bang the spacebar for him every time he died. Soon we found a solution which made life simpler and scores even higher: Rest his coffecup upon the spacebar and a manual of appropriate height placed before the keyboard, so that he'd come back to life immediately after death. Thus was cupping born.
• Doomkopf
  My son Matthew invented this word when he spotted his sister playing Doom one evening. We had discussed some German words that morning, including Dummkopf. He seemed as surprised and amused upon hearing it as were the rest of us. I suspect that he called her a Dummkopf because she was using the computer when he wanted it, only afterward realizing what she was playing and how appropriate the word, with only a slight change in spelling!

HIT THE DAMN SPACEBAR!