DoomCollector Posted January 2, 2014 What version is the Doom Shareware that's in a pretty big box with the original cover art and "Shareware" in the bottom right? Anyone? 0 Share this post Link to post
Zed Posted January 2, 2014 I think in this page, the eighth one from the top is the one you're talking about. The third thumbnail shows the floppy, which doesn't have the version, but given it's dated 1993, I assume it's either v1.0 or v1.1, since according to the Wiki, they were the only ones released in 1993, while further versions were released in 1994 and 1995. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted January 3, 2014 I think you'll find even v1.666 floppies wear that 1993 copyright date, reading the boot disk's directory is a more reliable way to do a version check. 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomCollector Posted January 3, 2014 Yeah, the eight one is the one I'm talking about... I know some of you guys here have the box. Can anyone try the floppy out and see what's on it? I’ve seen one on eBay and I’m quite interested in it only if it’s 1.0 or 1.1. 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomCollector Posted January 4, 2014 I remember a video game database somewhere that listed all Doom releases with photos of the floppies or disks and such. Anyone know which one I mean? 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomCollector Posted January 4, 2014 Okay, Stanford University has a scan of it: Diskette 1: 02/03/2009 09:48 AM <DIR> . 02/03/2009 09:48 AM <DIR> .. 09/06/1994 10:54 AM 74 CFG.TXT 02/03/2009 09:48 AM 0 dir.txt 01/24/1994 06:27 AM 799 GLUE.COM 10/26/1994 08:55 AM 27,155 INSTALL.EXE 09/06/1994 10:47 AM 987,960 TSL.002 5 File(s) 1,015,988 bytes Diskette 2: 02/03/2009 09:50 AM <DIR> . 02/03/2009 09:50 AM <DIR> .. 02/03/2009 09:50 AM 0 dir.txt 09/06/1994 10:47 AM 1,400,000 TSL.001 2 File(s) 1,400,000 bytes Seems like a 94er... 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted January 4, 2014 Could you post a link to those scans? The only Doom stuff I know of at Stanford is the St. John's College map. 0 Share this post Link to post
digger Posted January 5, 2014 GreyGhost said:Could you post a link to those scans? The only Doom stuff I know of at Stanford is the St. John's College map. That info about whats on the disks is wrong? I have two sets of the gt interactive shareware floppy disks and they are both version 1.2. http://www.mediafire.com/download/80nsae996zrqh69/doomsw12gt.zip 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted January 5, 2014 Thanks for the link, now I know why I couldn't make sense of those directory listings. They're from another distributor called The Software Labs who wouldn't have used GT Interactive labels on their disks, I don't know if they boxed their products either. I like the summary, "a hoard of demons" suggests someone's been collecting them. :D EDIT - Looks like they did box them after all 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted January 5, 2014 Little known fact, Doom fakes the 3D rendering by using an amazing breakthrough in parallax-scrolling technology. Also, I don't remember a sergeant and demon ever being in the starting room of the nuclear plant. I guess that's what happens when creatures can come at you from the darkhess. Normal hesses are bad enough as it is, dark hesses are just frightful. 0 Share this post Link to post
nicolas monti Posted January 9, 2014 I see 2 curious things in the pics, E3M2 has E1 sky and that section of E2M6 has comp textures when in the final release has brown. This means that the pictures were taken from some previous version of the final levels, at least the one of E2M6. 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomCollector Posted January 13, 2014 digger said:That info about whats on the disks is wrong? I have two sets of the gt interactive shareware floppy disks and they are both version 1.2. http://www.mediafire.com/download/80nsae996zrqh69/doomsw12gt.zip What colour are the disks? Dark grey or white grey? 0 Share this post Link to post
Dragonsbrethren Posted January 13, 2014 nicolas monti said:I see 2 curious things in the pics, E3M2 has E1 sky and that section of E2M6 has comp textures when in the final release has brown. This means that the pictures were taken from some previous version of the final levels, at least the one of E2M6. They did the same thing with Doom 2. The other three shots that are on the larger box originally came bundled with the pre-beta. 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomCollector Posted January 14, 2014 Wait, there are several boxed sharewares. One with black border ("your free copy Doom shareware") and one without... any ideas? 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomCollector Posted January 18, 2014 Anyone know what versions the boxed Doom Shareware without black border and black or white floppies included are yet? 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted January 18, 2014 DoomCollector said:One with black border ("your free copy Doom shareware") and one without... any ideas? I think I've seen the black bordered box bundled with the registered version of Wolf3D, shrinkwrapped side-by-side which made them expensive to post. :( 0 Share this post Link to post
Waffenak Posted January 18, 2014 I got that black bordered version still in sealed condition. Bought it something like 2006 on ebay with some odd jewel cased doom maps packs and stuff 0 Share this post Link to post