invictius Posted November 11, 2016 I was looking up the circumstances in which the floppy would appear as I'm a bit rusty on all that, but apparently: STCDROM CD-ROM graphic used when accessing a CD-ROM. I've never seen that happen, and I have actually run vanilla off of a cd before. https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Status_bar 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted November 11, 2016 The retail CD versions of the DOOM games include an unpacked copy of the game that could be played directly off the CD-ROM, in case you didn't have enough drive space to actually install it to your hard drive (remember when that was a thing?). The games would be launched with a -cdrom command line parameter, which is what turns this behavior on. It also causes save games to be written to the C:\DOOMDATA directory, in case you ever wondered why that folder exists after you run the DOS DOOM executables. 0 Share this post Link to post
HavoX Posted November 11, 2016 Hey, I remember seeing that icon in the past... 0 Share this post Link to post
Megalyth Posted November 11, 2016 I remember seeing the floppy disk icon while a level was loading, but I haven't seen it for a long time. I assume it either doesn't exist in modern ports, or today's computers load Doom so fast that it doesn't have a chance to appear. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bashe Posted November 11, 2016 I remember seeing that CD icon and being weirded out by it, since I had only ever seen the floppy in the past. I always like that little loading icon though, and I do miss seeing it when I play Doom nowadays. Quasar said:C:\DOOMDATA Oh god...I'll never forget randomly finding porn, of all things, in that folder on my brother's computer when I was like 9. GOOD brother. 0 Share this post Link to post