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7/08/02 Selim 'Bastard' Benabdelkhalek sent a bunch of new record speedruns on AlienVendetta.
-- really awesome tricks in these.  The archvile-jump (and the new trick) on 24 is great!  Must-see demos.

Anthony 'Swedish Fish' Soto sent 4 record maxdemos for Darkcvnt. Good action; Compet-N style.

Speaking of Fish and Cn-style, he also did a near-record maxdemo on Hell Revealed Map16.

RetroEps:
The Neder-lander Co-oper Doo-mers, SlagDooM and df, did some quality coop demos on e1m1 and e1m8.
-- recording Doom on a laptop, now you know these guys are hardcore!   : )
The DSF team released their demoset.  Recommended.
Chris simultaneously released his -fast demoset. Nice. (but then I'm a sucker for -fast as well as Ryback demos)
Erik sent a speedy speedrun on E1M1.... and I did a -nomo demo on there.
Lastly, I gathered the rest of the misc demos from the max demoset and posted them.

One Bloody Night - bldnight -- these are very nice maps!
Albert Valls sent an excellent Map01 maxdemo. recommended.
Rich Sham (regardless of what you read in his textfiles, this guy can really play) did a good maxdemo on Map06.
Kevin 'Magikal' Reay kindly posted 5 maxdemos. For 'first-look' demos, these are really great.

Magikal and Rich did some nice maxdemos on Big_gun_v1.

Rich also did a couple maxdemos on Breach.
He conquered the archvile-friendly map, Ap_005.
... and the even more difficult, ammo-challenged Ap_006. Nice. (I asked for this demo.)
Rich and I did some maxdemos on Espi's new map: Ruma.

Ledmeister has always sent me great demos, but this one is really something else.
Rare blockmap-error bugdemo on Blacktwr that allows him to exit the map in only 21 seconds!  Recommended.
Only playsback correctly on some computers.  (It will playback on my PentiumII machine, but not on my P4 Intel-850 board.)
I'd like to try to play this demo in an Ms-Dos6.22 environment...

Crusades:
Xit Vono did a record nomonsters demo on E1M1; barely edging out Vrooomer.
Updated the page with info to reflect the demoset when/if it is released. = ]

Xit Vono sent a couple of fast nomo runs.
-- Hell Revealed Map01 100%secrets
-- Requiem Map01 - recommended.

Maikl's corner  = ]
Lots of Ultimate Doom demos on a variety of maps...
-- Allroy -- full episode movie. A couple of white-knuckle showdowns with the Cybers. Fun.
-- Almighty -- full episode movie. This wad has issues.
-- Aloha911 -- 4-level maxdemo.
-- Aloha999 -- full episode movie.
-- Alone -- maxdemo.
-- Amazed -- maxdemo. -- 35 hours of editing time. yikes! Eat that, Erik. :)
-- Amazed2 -- maxdemo.
-- Ambient -- maxdemo. - map reminds me of the HLDM map Scary_1
-- Amfdoom -- maxdemo and a full episode movie.
-- Andrew -- a nice maxdemo.
-- Ander -- record maxdemo.
-- Andytrig -- fast maxdemo.
-- Annex -- maxdemo.
-- Anrrti -- good maxdemo.
-- Anteroom -- maxdemo.
-- Anthill -- maxdemo.
-- Aox -- good maxdemo.  Fun, lots o' action.
-- Aphexius -- maxdemo. "Gimme a single-barrel and a fishhook, and I'll get your marine out of that wad." -- obl. Simpsons reference.

Posted my nomonsters MM2 Map29 demo.  Damn is Sedlo fast.

Imminent  Compet-N update.... keep watch for it...
All the demos from this update:  here or here   (1854 kb)
I uploaded the Legacy1.32 beta4 to the tools directory...

other news:
DSF still slowly making activity...
Vidd is a fantastic new demotool.  Basically, a VCR for Doom demos in Windows... with some impressive extra features too. A must see.  Thanks to Lucas Pope.
Big QDQ updates at the SDA. OMFG! is that Horvath e1m3-100 demo pure magic!  Probably the best SDA Quake demo ever.
-- Just like with some Doom demos, I think if you took that demo back in time a few years, even the SDA players would think it was cheated.  Amazing.

Lastly, forgive my long email reply times.  Unfortunately, this will not change until I get fired from my job in December...  just very busy right now. I always appreciate the demos. thanks.
 

5/26/02 I made an understandable error with Erik's demoset for Dark Covenant.
-- This is an updated demoset (6 new); complete with a full episode movie! Very nice.  Just the quality demos that I expect from Erik now.

other news:
Be sure to get your eyeballs on the leaked Doom3 movie.  It is nothing short of spectacular.
The Chaingunner says either "I smell fear" or "It's like uber-creepy in here"; I'm not sure which.  = ]

5/25/02 The demo masters polished off their demoset for the REAL Doom3, AlienVendetta. heh
--  Alien Vendetta Demo page
-- More must download demos, my friends!  Highly Recommended.
-- If you watch only one movie this summer, make sure it is this demoset. = ]
-- (and somebody talk Radeg into giving up his private AV demos!)

Erik Alm sent a quality maxdemoset for all 12 levels of Darkcvnt. Nice.

Albert Valls sent some rare demos: a near-complete Reality demoset for Phtga.
-- many of these maps are difficult playing them normally.  Recommended.

Never Again sent some late night entertainment.  (no no no, I mean good Doom demos :)
-- Eternity -- a full episode maxdemo movie. nice.
                -- a full maxdemo set as well.
-- Temple11 -- maxdemo
-- Bnbeyond -- maxdemo
-- Dante25 -- -fast maxdemo -- very nice.
---- (also added the external demo to the page) What a classic!

Ledmeister did a record maxdemo on the Master level Combine.
He also has an unusual bug demo at his site for that map -- Strange things always happen when you die in moving sectors, but I think this strangeness comes from the diagonal trigger line within the crusher.

Some in-progress DSF action on Darkening by Disturbed, Xit Vono, and myself.
-- Xit does almost a full speedrun collection, 3 nightmare runs, a nomonsters run, a full set of demos on Map01, and improves on my keygrab speedruns... but we won't mention that.
-- Disturbed improves on his previous Map01 maxdemo.

New Maikl Ultimate Doom demos:
-- All-ep1 -- a full episode maxdemo movie. nice.
-- Alienlev -- a full episode maxdemo movie --  temporary wad link
-- Alcatraz-- maxdemo
-- Afro -- maxdemo - different than the other Afro (insert joke here -- hehe)
-- Domain -- maxdemo
-- Jail -- maxdemo
-- Jeff247 -- maxdemo
-- Plant -- maxdemo - action.

One solo Dodead demo from the DSF by Disturbed. Hopefully, we'll see some more from that quality episode.

XitVono sent another misc TTP dehacked Map31 speedrun demo -- improving the time to exactly one minute.

Lots of  Compet-N pwad action.  116 new demos on CE, HR, MM, MM2, and Requiem.
Be sure to catch gems like he30-114 by Altima Mantoid,  mm23n155 and pn12-020 by stx-Vile, and pl12-008 by Sedlo.
All the demos from this update:  here or here   (1335 kb) (this does not include the AV demoset)

other news:
Nice Compet-N update with killer demos and new forms...
Doom Speedrunner's Forum returns! ( DSF ) Come join in the fun.
Christian Hansen released his DOOM Episode One tribute, RetroEps -- a high-quality feast of a levelset. Created the RetroEps demo page for informational purposes.
Doom3 is getting really close... (I recommend the recent 90Mb preview movie.)
 

5/6/02 Erik Alm sent a great maxdemo for his Eaeuro03 map.
-- amuses me that the author complains about his fps on his own map. = ]

Mysterious SpinD did some more fantastic record maxdemos on Phtga. Recommended.

Varun Abhirama Krishna did a nomo speedrun on Terrer2 with 2 nice tricks.

Another big set of UDoom demos from Maikl:
-- 10bar - maxdemo -- A very slightly modified e1m8.
-- 2fragcit - maxdemo
-- aa22 - maxdemo
-- afro_ - maxdemo
-- bunker - maxdemo
-- chaos - maxdemo
-- comp - maxdemo
-- daves2nd - maxdemo
-- de2106 - maxdemo - his best one of this update, IMO.
-- deus - maxdemo
-- drdoom - maxdemo
-- e1l3 - maxdemo
-- grayday - maxdemo
-- mayhem - maxdemo
-- mntdoom - maxdemo
-- mtglevel - maxdemo
-- nuclear - maxdemo
-- robs - maxdemo
-- temple - maxdemo
-- tone2 - maxdemo
-- wreck - maxdemo
Additionally, he sent some textfiles for his previously submitted demos.
-- grab the grouped zip -  here or here

I did one sad maxdemo for a truly terrific map: Ic2001.

Lots of Compet-N pwad action.
All the demos from this update:  here or here  (1439 kb)
I have been making mistakes, or at the very least, been missing demos from the Compet-N, so I guess I'll only update the tables after each Cn update.

other news:
New ocelot-recommended dm demos at my site-in-the-works:  Opulent's FPS Demos
Sedlo amazes everyone with 2 more Doom2 speedrun records: lv07-006 and lv14-020!
Day of Defeat and CS1.4 came out. 
Doom3 officially announced -- for people outside the Doom community, the game is really close now.
I got a new box:  I have yet to find a game that I don't get 100fps at 1600 res... Man, am I spoiled. :)

Lastly, everyone just be cool, alright?     That goes for you too.
Goddamnit! My clothes dryer just died. Clotheslines suck ass...
 

4/20/02 I packaged the remaining 95 miscellaneous Alien Vendetta demos into one big demoset.
-- These range from pretty good to amazing.  Just look at that player list!
-- Must download.

Andy Olivera TAS'd the Twzone megawad.  Usual high-quality TAS madness we have come to expect from Andy.
Includes a bunch of reality demos.
-- another must download.

Newcomer Michael 'Maikl' Novikov sent a whole boatload of demos... and he's barely into the 'A's.  = ]
- this is another case where many of the demos are better than the maps. 
- He sent a grouped textfile, but I don't have an adequate Russian Translator. Textfile / demos
-- 01fava - 9 maxdemos
-- 02what - maxdemo
-- 1 - maxdemo
-- 1_on_1 - maxdemo
-- 101 - maxdemo
-- 11bones - maxdemo and a speedrun
-- 11getbfg - maxdemo
-- 11nideck - maxdemo
-- 11space - maxdemo
-- 1berzerk - maxdemo
-- 1fiffy - maxdemo
-- 1fiffy2 - maxdemo
-- 1fiffy3 - maxdemo -- the ammo surplus on these maps is just absurd.
-- 1fiffy4 - maxdemo
-- 1fiffy5 - maxdemo
-- 1fiffy6 - maxdemo
-- 1fiffy7 - maxdemo
-- 1fifwar3 - maxdemo
-- 1kill - 9 maxdemos
-- 1killxtr - maxdemo -- nice map.
-- 1level - multi-level maxdemo
-- 21hex_pn - maxdemo
-- 21jpxfir - maxdemo
-- 21ratmaz - maxdemo
-- 22ventry - maxdemo
-- 23castle - maxdemo
-- 2bosses - maxdemo
-- 666 - maxdemo
-- 666epis - 4 maxdemos
-- 8isenuf - maxdemo
-- 9-levels - 9 maxdemos
-- 9ring666 - 9-level multi-level maxdemo
-- 9-to-5 - maxdemo
-- a41_spdm - 7 maxdemos
-- ab_barr - maxdemo
-- abditn - maxdemo
-- abyss - maxdemo
-- academy - maxdemo
-- acastle2 - maxdemo
-- acheron - maxdemo
-- ae_projr - maxdemo
-- ahide - 3-level multi-level demo
-- albillo - maxdemo
-- carnage_ - maxdemo

Albert Valls did a speedrun and a nice Tyson maxdemo on Ononone.
He put his running shoes on for a TAS nomo speedrun on Terrere1....
as well as burying my previous speedrun record on X8a7 e1m9.
Lastly, he did an unusual 'Naked' pacifist max demo for Easpd03.

Varun Abhirama did a good maxdemo on Swmort04.
Karthik and Varun did maxdemos for Karthik's Osp.wad.
Karthik returned the favor and did a couple maxdemos on Varun's new map, Snq.

I did a few demos for some submitted maps:
-- 02what - maxdemo
-- 9-levels - maxdemo on E3M8.
-- Snq - maxdemo

Tools-Assisted Demosite updated.

Lots of Compet-N pwad action yet again.
All the demos from this update:  here or here  (2909 kb)

other news:
Big thanks to Bartlomiej Rychtarski, Bjorn Hamels, and Azazello for their amazing utilities that make a demo_freak's hobby all that more entertaining.
It's great to still see new names at the Compet-N... heck, here too.  =)
John Hill owns.
Cool new movie at Cyberfight.
 

3/25/02 Erik Alm did a speedrun and a maxdemo on Swmort04.
I did some demos on a couple of  new maps:
-- Wahnsinn maxdemo
-- X8a7 e1m9 maxdemo and speedrun.

Tools-Assisted Demosite updated.

Lots of Compet-N pwad action once again.
All the demos from this update:  here or here  (29 kb)

other news:
New Sslasher nomo demos,
Henning outdoes his 30nm,
PerOxyd and stx-Vile smackdown n4m6, 
and Xit Vono improves t2m8 by a huge margin. 
Holy F%@#! are these guys incredible or what?!
Btw, I bet Xit would drop the time even farther if he punched with both hands! 
The whole time, I bet the Cyber was just waiting for him to throw that right.  =P

More quality action at Mirra.
Compet-N Golden Cyber Awards was celebrated.

3/09/02 Albert Valls and I had another small competition... what a surprise, I lost again. =)
-- Swmort04 was our arena this time.  Short map with lots of action.
SpinD sent a record nightmare maxdemo on Phtga Map29. Short and sweet.

I realized that sometimes I forget to update the DSDA pwad pages for Compet-N maps when there are new Cn demos.  I guess we'll have to live with that.
Originally I wasn't going to post Compet-N times on the pages, then I realized that was stupid, but I think that is where my confusion started.
Thanks to Xit Vono for some assistance with this too. (with the pages, not the confusion =)

Lots of Compet-N pwad action this time.
All the demos from this update:  here or here(13 kb)

other news:
BahdKo has replaced Arno. I'd like to say a big THANKS to both of them. 
Without the ftp and the Pdang, this site would never have existed, so remember that.
competn.doom2.net (for ftp access, you must use port 8002 and passive mode)  I'd like to thank Arno for his previous ftp space -- all at his personal expense.
Update at the Compet-Not .
Mirra is back with a vengeance: New Pwad contest on Pe4_dt2 by Paul Corfiatis, Kristian Aro, and Chris Harbin.
Second phase of voting has started at the Compet-N 2001 Golden Cyber Awards.
Quake3Arena Done Quick Challenge is an interesting contest project. (IE only)
I never knew there were more than one .rar file format.  Learn something new everyday...
 

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