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| 2/23/02 |
Just a brief update...
9 new Compet-N pwad demos on CE, MM2, and Requiem. Also, you
should go vote on the Golden Cyber Awards there.
DOOM activity has really slowed recently... |
| 2/12/02 |
Vrooomer updated his Coda
with some fantastic demos - including:
-- two Easpd3
speedruns
-- a good UV maxdemo record on Terrere1
-- a maxdemo on Steel
He also did a very nice trick demo on Cyberdreams
Map07.
Jason Dyer did a speedrun on Requiem
Map06.
I did a first-try nomo run on Hell
Revealed Map03 within my frustration with that second jump.
Uploaded all the 01Fava
demos from Mirra.
Including my demos that didn't make it in time.
Alien Vendetta page
updated for the demo runners.
15 new Compet-N
demos on all 5 pwads.
All the demos from this update: here
or here (240
kb)
other news:
New dm demos at Inchfall.
Compet-N contest is over and updated.
-- Vile is continuing to impress; and we have a new D2S player as well.
After a bit of html inactivity, Ryback the Great took over the major
Pdang
updating tasks.
-- there have been 2 big updates already!
DSF is closing in on 2 finished demosets -- Crusades and Alien Vendetta.
The new Geekplay player for Halflife supports the last 3 versions of
Halflife. (wow)
This
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| 1/29/02 |
Richie Agnew sent 4 very impressive demos.
-- 2 record maxdemos on Hell Revealed's toughest map, Map24 (Keyboarders
own that map =)
-- 2 maxdemos on Punisher -- including another TAS-beater.
Mark Thompson sent an Ophase2 speedrun -- barely gets out of there
alive. = ]
2 new Compet-N
pwad speedruns on Hell Revealed.
All the demos from this update: here
or here
(31 kb)
Last update available here
other news:
RTCW demos are not worth the bother... at least the ones I have
seen.
My email and homepage
are finally static.
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| 1/25/02 |
Hate to have to mention this again, but I have to: my new email
address should eventually resolve to opulent@cox.net
Currently, I have no active home email address. grr...
Adam Williamson kept up his reputation as one of the fastest players
with 2 Map03 Slayer
speedruns.
Erik Alm easily beatdown his own speedmap, Easpd3,
with a nightmare pacifist demo and a great maxdemo.
He also did a blazing maxdemo on his Map01 of Ntspd002,
the second Nightmare speedmap wad.
Albert Valls did a rare movie for this site -- a 7-map speedrun through
Loh.
Demo courtesy of the Presage
site.
More Vrooomer action with some more Unreleasables
- Dsnacks action -- 3 impressive maxdemos and some TAS treats.
Wim Vanrie, Albert, and I ganged up on Karthik's Ophase2
wad with some good maxdemos and a speedrun.
Updated the Alien Vendetta
demo page with a bunch of demos and a preview of the demo madness to come
(for those of you who don't visit the DSForum).
-- Arno Slagboom's Map02 nomo trick
-- Cameron Prosser's Map32 Nightmare Pacifist TAS run
-- the -nomonsters demoset
I did a quick test with Dashiva's lmp-to-avi converter for PrBoom-glboom2.2.2
of av32-051.
You can grab it here
if you're interested. No sound, and nothing fancy like camera angles
or anything.
There are a lot of quality capture tools out there if you're interested
in that kind of thing.
Tools-Assisted
Doom demosite updated twice.
23 new Compet-N
pwad demos on Hell
Revealed, Memento Mori,
and Requiem.
All the demos from this update: here
or here
(242 kb)
other news:
Contest at the Compet-N...
More top quality dm demos at Inchfall.
I recommend DemoShowCreator for playing back Quake3Arena 1.31 demos.
DemoMaster is a good solution for the client resolution-independent
HL1108 demos.(that is, if your machine can support higher
resolutions)
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| 12/25/01 |
Varun Abhirama Krishna did a nice maxdemo on Waste_m.
Albert and I conquered Erik's Dsnacks
Map19 with two good maxdemos.
Vrooomer also did a speedy wallrun through Map13.
Tools-Assisted
Doom demosite updated.
5 Requiem demos by Xit Vono. Lots of action and a few new tricks
in these.
Recommended. (like I have to say that with TAS demos...)
No new pwad Compet-N demos this time around. (lots of good Iwad
stuff though!)
All the demos from this update: here
or here
(24 kb)
All the demos from the last update:here
or here
other news:
AlienVendetta
activity at the DSF:
go participate!
Whole list of outstanding players already submitting demos: AdamW.,
AdamH., Richard Sham, Espi, Waldon, and Erik Alm.
(If somehow you don't have this yet, it is a must play megawad.
Two words: Quality, gameplay.)
SDA updated regularly; Illmind and CQ have updates too.
Why in the heck do the Xsreality admins allow unzipped demos?
bah!
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| 12/22/01 |
Donatas Tamonis once again impresses with 3 quality nightmare demos
-- on all 3 Etpt16_8
maps.
Chris Ratcliff mastered the massive Oneweek
Map11 with a UV maxdemo.
-- He gets more and more brave as the demo goes on. Recommended.
Erik Alm did a good collection of max and speed demos for his 'Unreleasable'
map, Dsnacks.
= ]
-- He also did a 19-map movie for the whole thing.
I joined in with a few maxdemos; a bunch of these maps are short, challenging,
and fun to play.
Mike Toliver re-visited 1
on 1 for a new maxdemo, speedrun, and a pacifist run.
Albert
'Vrooomer' Valls:
-- 10sector
- Map01 Tyson maxdemo.
-- Cresent
- Maxdemo.
-- Djw11wad
- Maxdemo.
-- Hl_op
- 3 Maxdemos - shotgun/ssg only and a 'Cervantes' demo. (Man,
how does he do that?!)
--
Tobias Münch map madness --
-- Deimoscc
- Tyson maxdemo.
-- E2m1_01
- Tyson maxdemo.
-- Help -
Maxdemo, Tyson, and 2 speedruns. Very small map. = ]
I found time for a couple more Dminator
demos.
I also did a very average Tyson demo for Richard J. Sham's new tyson-oriented
map, Oneonone.
- note: you will need the latest version of the map to see the end
of the demo. = ]
Tools-Assisted
Doom demosite updated.
15 new Compet-N
pwad demos. 13 on Requiem,
one on Classic_episode,
and one on Hell Revealed.
All the demos from this update: here
or here
(290 kb)
other news:
Fixed a bunch of the links to a default 3darchives.in-span.net address.
While I'm on the subject of domains and changing addresses, excite@home
is dying quickly. My third demosite will not be updated until it
arrives at cox.net in February.
My email and domain will change at the end of January 2002. Hopefully,
that is the last change for a long time...
XSReality is back! as well as Cached and Challenge-tv have lots
of new high-quality FPS demos, mostly from the recent World CyberGames
event.
The Q3A-Generations mod, Q3A point-release 1.31, and the SeriousSam
Second Encounter demo were released.
In my opinion, the 3 best FPS gaming movies are: FragsDoneExtreme1
and 2 and the Ownage1 avi. (all 3 are Quake3 and/or QW oriented.)
Many of the others are not worth your time to download, especially
if you have a slow connection.
Happy Holidays to all.
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| 12/12/01 |
Been a little blue recently... thanks to Lufo and Vrooomer for
their page assistance and constructive criticism.
They helped me get my priorities straight...
Never Again uploaded !Pipe!.wad
to /incoming -- an frustrating but absolute classic map from olden days
of moldy Doom. heh.
- He included a demo with it. Now I know why he's called Never
Again...
-- a nice -fast demo on the Doom map 1
on 1.
-- and a full maxdemo collection on the Serenity
episode -- 5 of these are -fast demos.
The ever-vigilant Mike Toliver rebounded with a complete demoset for
the episode one ripoff megawad, Dminator.
He asked me to give it a try, so I did one demo for it.
Sam Woodman sent a complete speedrun for one of Squonkamatic for the
People's megawads: Spawnsq2.
Unusual demo for sure.
Xit Vono sent a near miss record maxdemo for Requiem
Map08 -- He since made the record. Confused? see the page..
Brad Spencer sent 2 record maxdemos on Perdition's
Gate Map01 and Map02. Really great to see Brad playing again!
(Doom, that is. =)
Espi (who is way too good an author to be a player; or
way to good a player to be an author) scoped through two levels
of Dinner.wad.
Tasty.
- He sent a high quality record maxdemo for Seej.
- He also sent a good standard demo for his magnificent Laitos
map (new version of map just released).
-- there are only a few UDoom maps that are on par with this one...
none are clearly better. If you haven't played it yet, you owe it
to yourself.
Erik Alm proves he is multi-talented as well:
-- EaGoth1 --
map and 2 good maxdemos.
-- EaGoth2 --
map and 3 good maxdemos.
The Barcelona musician with the phonetically colorful alias did his
usual high-quality measure of demo madness:
-- Dwspd008
-- 3 quick maxdemos.
-- EaGoth1 --
Smooth.
-- EaGoth2 --
Very nice.
-- Hl_op -- Very
fast nightmare speedrun.
-- Keep -- This
would've surprised Reed back then...nice.
-- Nuts -- a pacifist
speedrun in record time. Tough to do with the reduced framerates...
-- Oneweek --
Map06 maxdemo. Whoa... good optimizations. Just an appetizer!
-- Sfft -- Standard
maxdemo.
-- Sm -- Closer to
the main course... a great tyson maxdemo and a speedrun.
-- Uaccorp --
Map01 and 2 maxdemos. Dessert.
2 new Compet-N
pwad demos Requiem
Map02 -respawn magic by Radek and Memento
Mori Map26 maxdemo by Ryback.
All the demos from this update:here(818
kb)
other news:
I cannot recommend Nullspace
enough. Amazing Flawless design and texture use.
Gameplay is not for demos(it is meant to be played as an episode -- savored
and paced), but don't let that stop you from sending me some...
If I hear that buh-dee buh-dee buh-dee Porky Pig buh-buh-Blue Christmas
song again this year, I think I will hurt someone... = ]
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| 11/20/01 |
Xit Vono sent some convincing propaganda for his promotion of the Crusades
episode. (Wiles sure gets around..)
-- 5 speedruns, one max, and a nice nightmare demo.
Erwin Lin resurfaced with a new computer from the ashes of his old
one -- apparently this one had a mouse attached to it. ; ]
-- anyway, he sent a nice Biowar
speedrun with a cool trick in it. Good to see him active again!
btw, I fixed some of the broken links around here.. = |
Erik Alm couldn't get enough of the Oneweek
Map11 torture. He sent 2 speedruns, a respawn speedrun, and a skill
1 maxdemo.
-- these are all fantastic demos. Sure helps to have some *insight*
into the map when recording... hehe. Recommended.
There was a stupidly fun map released recently called Nuts.
It has 10617 monsters in it.. in only 2 rooms. But, when played
in certain ways, it was fun to play. And that is what is most important
wihen making a map.
Anyway, we have a slew of quickly recorded, throw-away, fun-to-watch
demos for this over-the-top map. got-that-?
-- Adam Hegyi did a initial speedrun.
-- Espi improved on that with a few speedruns, and maxdemo, and a special
maxdemo.
-- I did a special maxdemo as well.
10 new Compet-N
pwad demos by Xit Vono on Requiem
. He's all over that board like (stupid joke deleted).
All the demos from this update: here
or here(122
kb)
All the demos from the last update:here
or here (611
kb)
other news:
Lots of Fava demos at Mirra.
Nice Compet-N action from veterans Henning, Vincent, and... Vile.
= ]
QuakeSDA ROTW ended. Go Adam!
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| 11/17/01 |
Hi. Long week. Lots of bad news recently...
Anyway, the good news is that Marv fixed my password problem.
(shadow/unshadow people :)
The DSForum
crew (Adam Hegyi, Anthony Soto, Xit Vono, Chris Ratcliff, Esa Repo, and
Cameron Prosser) spanked down Slayer
with a maxdemoset and some speedruns as a bonus.
These are nothing but the highest quality demos; and quite a nice response
for the quality hard work of Richard Wiles. Highly recommended.
As an added viewer's bonus, you get the temporary demos as well --
most of these are excellent as well.
Lastly, or firstly because he sent me this before they did their demos,
Virgil recorded a very nice map31 maxdemo to finish his max demoset.
Metabolist's Oneweek
megawad was released.
-- Erik Alm (the skilled author of many of the maps) did a few nice
maxdemos.
-- I did one maxdemo.
-- Albert 'Vrooomer' Valls did a couple fast maxdemos.
-- Chris 'Ryback' Ratcliff, who has a history of doing the ultra-hard
maps that all others fear, took on the impossible Map11. As well
as doing several other maxdemos too.
Ryback really keep these demos exciting all the way up to the exits.
Recommended.
I recommend using PrBoom2.2.2 to view all the demos (except Erik's
map07 Zdoom demo), just to make things easier.
I released a new map, Hl_op.
Albert Valls and Xit Vono very generously recorded a whole variety of quality
demos for it. THANKS!
Albert also did 4 very speedy maxdemos on the E2M1-copy, Square.
The reality demo must have been tough to get.
Chris and I posted some of our DSF contest demos (the competition kind
of fizzled after the domain change): Acheron
and Ae_projr.
While trying to instill interest in Dodead
as a demowad, Adam Williamson sent an old maxdemo for Map01.
Adam Hegyi did a record maxdemo on Swlvcit.
Sam Woodman, himself, recorded a maxdemo, along with some praise for
Karthik's map, Ophase.
Mirra run by Chris Laverdure
has a new Udoom competition in the Pdang-style.
Additionally, there are pwad demos there. Currently only 01Fava,
but I'm sure that will expand in time.
(In the textfile, Birkel talks about his ultra-lucky friend who has
a *gasp* Pentium 100 machine. heh)
TAS
site updated.
One new Compet-Npwad
demo a nightmare 100% secrets movie on Requiem
by Xit Vono.
All the demos from this update: here
or here (611
kb)
other news:
Lots of demo action recently.
Check out Vincent's latest ass-kicking in the Compet-N incoming...
Thanks to everyone who helped get this site back online and assisting
with my new site.
DSForum and
the new Compet-N Forum
should grab your attention daily.
Lastly, Colin Phipps mastered the ftp mirror issue with a cool script:
idgames
mirrorlist |