Friday, October 3, 2014

This week we will be playing BeeJay's DooM 2 Deathmatch Party, a, 18-level Deathmatch effort by German Doomer _BeeJay_, featuring maps of all sizes, with loads of items. We will be playing without the included dehacked patch, and without monsters.

Date: Saturday, October 4th, 2014
Session Start: 20:00 EDT (0:00 GMT)
WADs: BJay_F3.wad
Maps: 18
Mode: 16-player Deathmatch
Server: 178.62.63.79:10666

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Ant sends word of a video posted today to the Ahoy YouTube channel: Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS. It's a history lesson of sorts where you can learn about the many Doom clones created for a hardware platform that was nearing the end of its life cycle at the time.

subject_119 on Breeze, Bravado & Brave: Three maps for Heretic; we don't have much information about it, not even when it was mapped. The only real thing we know is that it was made in over a hundred hours. I guess those were made back in the day when Heretic was pretty successful, and we still see maps made in those times being uploaded to /idgames. (more)