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11/27/03 Richie Agnew took notice of Eugene's Hell Revealed Map24 demos in the last update and responded with 4 new record maxdemos.  Highly Recommended.
-- sorry about the mis-information, Rich.  = |

Jakub "method_man" Razak:
-- Scythe - Map17 and Map26 maxdemos.  Map29 speedrun trick. Map24 -nomonsters trick speedrun. 2-level nomo Map19 demo.  Highly Recommended.

Angus:
-- Dimensions of Time - 33 speedruns and 2 maxdemos. Archvile jumps and switch tricks.
-- Scythe - Map28 nightmare pacifist speedrun.  Recommended.

Maikl:
-- Cbcstg - 8-level maxdemo.
-- Coloseum - nice record maxdemo.
-- Daemon2 - maxdemo.
-- Damned_ - maxdemo.
-- Dancdeth - maxdemo.
-- Dangers - maxdemo.
-- Dante12 - maxdemo.
-- Dare - good maxdemo.
-- Darkside - maxdemo.
-- Darkhell - 9-level maxdemo.
-- Darkness - maxdemo.
-- Daves2nd - maxdemo.
-- Dbuildk - maxdemo.
-- D1bip0_9 - e1m1-e1m8, e1m9, e2m1-e2m9, e3m1-e3m2 maxdemo movies.
-- Dantes - maxdemo.
-- Dave - maxdemo.
-- Dave1 - maxdemo.
-- Deadman1 - maxdemo.
-- Deadbase - maxdemo.
-- Davowads - 9 seperate maxdemos.
-- Dc - maxdemo.
-- Dd1 - maxdemo.
-- Dds1a - maxdemo.

I did a maxdemo on Dbase.
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additionally, I added a lot of the Doomworld Demo Forum demos:
Lots of great demos posted there already. 
Note to all forum users concerning the DSDA: I don't equate the two, the DSDA was never meant to be a complete archive of every pwad demo ever; if you want a demo posted outside the forum, email me about it.

Nanami:
-- Heart - speedrun

Espi:
-- Heart - speedrun

Rich:
-- Cchest - Map03 and Map09 maxdemos
-- Shamjam5 - maxdemo
-- Cyc-a - maxdemo
-- Eaxt - Map02 skill 3 maxdemo

Erik Alm:
-- Eaxt - Map01 maxdemo

Vile:
-- Eaxt - Map01 maxdemo  Recommended.
-- Tvr - Map01-10 nightmare movie.  Recommended.
          - Map11-20 nightmare movie.  This demo has it all; low health, mandatory low health exit, key grabs, trick jumps, even a death exit!
          ---- unfortunately, it also has a desync issue on Map20.  Highly Recommended.
-- Slayer - Map10 record maxdemo

Justin "DoomBoy" James:
-- Classic11 - nomonsters speedrun

Kim "Torn" Bach:
-- Rw - 1 max, 7 pacifist, and 5 speed.  Cool RJ on Map20.

Ryback:
-- Hr - Map20 record maxdemo  Recommended.

Opulent:
-- Hr2beta - Map07 maxdemo

Donce:
-- Pik - 7 nightmare demos  Recommended.
-- Realm - Pacifist, nightmare pacifist, respawn, max, and -fast demos
-- Undertow - maxdemos for both maps
-- Nikki - Nightmare speedrun
-- Spineinj - Speed, Nightmare, Pacifist, Respawn, Max, and a bonus demo.  Respawn is exactly 100%. :)
-- 10secto2 - Map07 maxdemo  Recommended.

Cacodemon Leader:
-- Void - 2 neat maxdemos

Kristian Ronge:
-- Thissuxx - Map32 speedrun

Grazza:
-- Thissuxx - Map32 speedrun trick
-- Ic1room - speedrun
-- Equinox - Map09 -fast maxdemo
-- Seven - maxdemo
-- Bndaly8 - -fast maxdemo
-- Iasp - maxdemo
-- Db_qad - maxdemo
-- Nikki - maxdemo and nightmare

Ian "The Flange Peddler" Cunnings:
-- Ic1room - nightmare and max demos.

Angus:
-- Scythe - record Map26 -respawn maxdemo  Recommended.

Added the Heretic/Hexen demos page.    Heretic movies for the first time ever.
This includes Vile's 5 full-episode movies of Heretic on nightmare skill.  For those less familiar with how to play these demos:
---- Install Heretic and patch it to version 1.3, download and install the correct versions of Zdoom, put the Heretic Iwad and the unzipped demos in your Zdoom directory.
---- In a batchfile/Run dialog box/shortcut/command-line, run zdoom -iwad heretic.wad -width 800 -height 600 -fullscr -nomusic -playdemo hep3sk5 (for example)

I added a couple pertinent Zdoom betas to the Tools download directory.

All the demos from this update:  here or here   (3115 kb)
Old update zips are saved here.

other news:
Zdoom / Zdoom current builds
Dimension of the Gibbed - Quake
JoeQuake -- the Quake player and mod.
SuperMarioBrothers3 NES speedrun (or whatever)
Metroid Prime Speedrun
A different kind of speedrun

Argh, man, I hate Windows!  So many of the "features" are so unnecessarily annoying. Auto-saving, shell functions, idiotic UI queries that command the user instead of the user commanding the pc, lack of force options, etc etc..
*nix systems never reset the freaking window your currently using.  Unbelivable.  Who is stupid enough to code something like this for themselves to use?!?! 
I'm more pro-Microsoft and against, but it is very hard to believe an end-user coded any of these things into an operating system they thought would be pleasant to use. 
along those same liines 'rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 1' is useful for those people still running Windows98.  It is a forcible shutdown commend.
 

11/9/03 Wow, more than 2 1/2 months since the last update.  I appreciate your patience.

Chris "Ryback" Ratcliff:
-- Cabal 1-7 - seperate maxdemos.  Recommended.
-- Dminator - 11 seperate maxdemos.
-- Ziggurat - maxdemo.
-- Zrat - maxdemo.

Adolf "Gusta" Vojta:
-- Strain - 22 record maxdemos.
-- Hr2beta - Map02 record maxdemo.

Eugene Kapustin:
-- Coloseum - maxdemo.
-- Hell Revealed - three Map24 record maxdemos.  Highly Recommended.
-- 2desert - maxdemo.

Jakub "DooMerMan" Machata:
-- Hell Revealed - Map01-10 record speedrun.  Recommended.
---- TAS Map01-10 speedrun. That hole-jump on Map03 is tasty.  Recommended.
---- TAS speedruns on Map03, Map08, and 2 on Map15.  Recommended.
-- Scythe - Built Map08 speedrun. 
-- Alien Vendetta - TAS
---- TAS speedruns on Map01, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 16. Map05 Tasdoom only.  Recommended.
---- TAS maxdemo on Map04.  Recommended.
---- Coop Built speedrun on Map30. Built speedrun on Map30.
-- Memento Mori - TAS speedrun on Map03.
-- Memento Mori2 - TAS speedrun on Map30 with both keys. Tasdoom only.
-- Requiem - TAS speedruns on Map04 and Map07. 

Jakub "method_man" Razak:
-- Hr2beta - Map02 and Map06 maxdemos.  Map02, Map12, and Map13 speedruns.  Highly Recommended.
---- Map02 maxdemo uses a surprising unorthodox route.  The Map02 speedrun has a nice keygrab.
-- Scythe - Map08 and Map26 maxdemos.  Map15, (2) Map17, and Map30 speedruns. Map14 nightmare.  Recommended.
---- Cool Archvile jump on 17.
-- Scythe - Map20 maxdemo.
---- Thanks to Qwerty for supplying the older version of the pwad.

Alexis Neuhaus: 
-- Real World madness
---- Speedruns on Map05, 13, and 15. 
---- Tools-assisted - TAS - 2 nightmare, 5 -fast, 4 max, 1 tyson, 10 speed, and 2 nomonsters.  Recommended.
-- Requiem - TAS speedrun on Map04.

Jochen "Angus Thermopyle" Schneidau:
-- Scythe - 16 -fast maxdemos and 1 -respawn demo -- the respawn is exactly 100%. Recommended.

The first Doomworld-Demo-Forum demoset was released: Nathan Lineback's Marswar.
-- 32 maxdemos by Rich Sham, Graham "Grazza" Burgess, and  Doug "Opulent" Merrill.

Graham "Grazza" Burgess:
-- Zoo - maxdemo.
-- Kingme - maxdemo.
-- Coyg - -fast maxdemo.
-- Egypt - nightmare pacifist speedrun.
-- Bndaly8 - maxdemo.
-- Marswar - 3 speedruns and 2 -fast maxdemos.
-- Stylin2 - -fast maxdemo.
-- Nikki - maxdemo.
-- Thegate - Pacifist speedrun.

Rich Sham:
-- Rebirth - 15 new maxdemos to finsih off a full maxdemoset.
-- Sin2_9 - Map03, Map06, and Map08 maxdemos.
-- Cchest - Map02, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 16, 31, 32 maxdemos.
-- Roadkill - maxdemo.
-- Fbase6 - maxdemo.
-- Squadron - Map03, 8, 10, 12, 15, 21 maxdemos.
-- Heart - maxdemo.
-- Bndaly8 - maxdemo.

Michael "Maikl" Novikov:
-- Cringe6 - 9-level maxdemo.
-- Crosfr01 - maxdemo.
-- Cross - maxdemo.
-- Crosst - maxdemo.
-- Cruhell - maxdemo.
-- Crusades - full-episode maxdemo.
-- Crusher - maxdemo.
-- Crypt - maxdemo.
-- Ctrl57_1 - maxdemo.
-- Cuewad - maxdemo.
-- Cuit - maxdemo.
-- Cwwad - maxdemo.
-- Cyberpit - maxdemo.
-- Cybokill - maxdemo.
-- Cybrdeth - maxdemo.
-- Cyke - maxdemo.
-- Cyril2 - maxdemo.

Gene "Searcher" Bird:
-- Insanit2 - trick maxdemo.
-- Bndaly8 - 2 maxdemos and a speedrun.

Kristian Ronge did 31 speedrun demos through the appropriately-titled, Thissuxx.

I did a maxdemo on Ap_013.

Eugune also sent the first maxdemoset for MementoMori: mmdemos.zip
I uploaded both versions of Classic Episode.

Some heart-stopping stuff over at the Tools-Assisted Demosite.

Compet-N update on Alien Vendetta, Hell Revealed, Memento Mori, Memento Mori2, and Requiem.
All the demos from this update:  here or here   (4744 kb)
Old update zips are saved here.

other news:
Since the DSF died, it was very kind of the admins at Doomworld to add the Demos Forum.  Thanks to Lut,  Julian, and Grazza for doing all the work.
-- there is a demo page that I put up in reference to the Demos Forum.  Lots of good action already, including some must-see stuff by Vile and Tamonis...
The Compet-N is now hosted by Bahdko.  Congratulations on finally getting out of school forever, Adam! 
-- huge update there with hordes of must-see demos and contest results.  Congrats to Altima_Mantoid and Vile on their contest victories.
-- Myk noted that those who have trouble with ftp connections can connect to the best ftp site on the internet via http:  Competn.doom2.net
Myk Helnyte -- Doomentia Deathmatch demos and more.
Alexis Newhaus -- Rw demos and more.
Grazza's HP -- Some misc demos; still growing.
Doom2.net has demos and more from Bahdlan3; and a new informative article too.
Ledmeister's fantastic DOOM help site has moved to ClassicDoom.com.
Prboom2.2.4 and Prboom2.3.0 were released. link  (ooh, chasecam in PrBoom...)
Zdoom 2.0.5.0 - 2.0.5.2 released.
The Rabbit Run  (Sept. 18, 2003 news) was finally released in avi format.  If you are even mildly into speedrunning, I'd say this is a must-see.
Quake Done Chopped in-progress.
Way off-topic, I have been enjoying Chuck Palahniuk's writings.  Extremely clever and often funny, but falls short of incredible.

Not demo-related either, but for all of you who store stuff for the future; some thoughts to chew on:
-- no back-up media is 100% reliable.  CD-Rs have a life expectancy under 2 years under normal storage; DLT-type tapes probably will last 10 years or so.
-- all magnetic media and devices (hard drives too) will fail from use or poor handling; and are guaranteed to fail sometime.
-- back up your data! -- mirror it somewhere on your hdd, burn cds, copy it to a second machine, write it down on paper... do something.
-- lastly, I'm still bent out of shape about maintaining a ms-dos compatible box for 20-40 years(sound, cdrom, and mouse support).  Guess I'll be buying a few Pentium2 machines on Ebay for safe keeping... then just keep my fingers crossed...
 

8/21/03 Absolutely enormous update.  :)
To start us off, we have some amazing stuff from some Compet-N regulars...

Jakub "method_man" Razak did a whole bunch of  must-see stuff on Scythe. Highly Recommended.
-- Nightmare demos on Map02, 5, 6, 8(Pacifist reality), 19, 25, and 28.
-- Speedrun demos on Map16, 17(cool trick), 19, 20, and 30.
-- also includes another rare bug demo where the player is dead and without a body.  Just wild. :)

Jakub "DooMerMan" Machata:
-- 9 record nomonsters 100% secrets demos on Hell Revealed using the current Compet-N tricks.
-- Alien Vendetta Map04 TAS speedrun. Highly Recommended.
-- Hell Revealed TAS action:   Recommended.
---- Map02 speed // Map04 speed // Map06 speed // Map07 speed
---- Map10 pacifist speed // Map21 pacifist speed

Eugene Kapustin did a nice speedrun on Eternal Map30.

Rich Sham:  The standard good quality from Rich...
-- Rebirth - 17 maxdemos. 
-- Cchest - 4 maxdemos.  "Necrophobia"; heh, great name for a map.  :)
-- Rw - nice Map14 maxdemo; good Map20 maxdemo.
-- Squadron - 16 maxdemos and a speedrun.  Good improvements.

Alexis Neuhaus: Rw.wad
- smooth Map08 speedrun 
- Map09 maxdemo
- Map20 ssg-only maxdemo
- awesome Map16 Built demo. Recommended.

Graham "Grazza" Burgess:
-- Rw - excellent -fast maxdemo on Map06  (missed this in the last update)
-- Insanit2 - -fast maxdemo
-- Return01 - improved his nightmare maxdemo on E1M8. Nice.
-- Aboocean - Tyson maxdemo showing a tweaked(or bad) reject map.
-- Meniscus - maxdemo
-- Maw - speedrun
-- Fantviol - good maxdemo
-- Doorlite - -fast maxdemo
-- Cryhavoc - pacifist speedrun
-- 1squares - good maxdemo and a good speedrun
-- Build - speedrun and a nightmare demo; optimal. :)
--- update:  To watch the Build.wad demos with Doom2.exe you need -nosound
-- Poolpty2 - excellent maxdemo
-- Stone - 2 speedruns

Michael "Maikl" Novikov:
-- Class-ep - full episode maxdemo. Nice.
-- Classic10 - great maxdemo
-- Classic10b - good maxdemo
-- Claus_03 - maxdemo
-- Cldf1 - maxdemo
-- Cleim10 - full episode maxdemo
-- Cliff - maxdemo
-- Collect - maxdemo on E1M9 and a 8-level maxdemo on the rest of the maps. 
-- Collect2 - entertaining 8-level maxdemo
-- Collect3 - 8-level maxdemo
-- Cnfusion - maxdemo
-- Cod2 - maxdemo
-- Cofd - maxdemo
-- Coloseum- maxdemo
-- Combat - 3-level maxdemo
-- Combat2 - 9-level maxdemo
-- Comcon - maxdemo
-- Compcore - maxdemo
-- Comrades - maxdemo
-- Conquest - good maxdemo
-- Convertm - maxdemo
-- Cooldoom - maxdemo
-- Coopers - maxdemo
-- Core - maxdemo
-- Corn - good maxdemo
-- Corridor - maxdemo
-- Cortyard - maxdemo
-- Cortyr_b - maxdemo -- nice map.
-- Cpunch - Tyson maxdemo
-- Crash - 8-level maxdemo
-- Crater - maxdemo
-- Crescent - maxdemo
-- Crimkeep - maxdemo - rockets for everyone. :)

I did a basic maxdemo for Deathrevealed Map02 and a speedrun on Rebirth Map32.

All the demos from this update:  here or here   (4403 kb)
Old update zips are saved here.

other news:
Doomzone pwad contest updated.
Toke? -- Zdaemon demos
Contest?
Legacy 1.41 released.
Eternity 3.3.1 beta released.
Sycraft converted Iwad music files to ogg. Thanks Newdoom.
Zdaemon hacking
Devastation updated -- excellent demos.  DOOM2
Dynamic-Core Q3A-CTF
Savage CTF Demos
Q2central
Quake speedmapping

Major Tournaments:
Duelmania season 3 - Demos / Demos  QW
Quakecon 2003 - Demos  Q3A 
Electronic Sports World Cup 2003  Q3A // UT2003 // HL-CS -- only HLTV  : (
Quake2 JulyCup 4x4  Q2
 

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