Ultraviolet Posted March 19, 2003 /me falls to his knees, raises his hands in the air, and screams your name angrily as onlookers say "What the hell is a shaviro?" 0 Share this post Link to post
Amaster Posted March 19, 2003 Being a 56K user, I actually have to agree with Shaviro. I'd rather spend the extra time downloading a huge file than have the author cut things out just to save space. 0 Share this post Link to post
Shaviro Posted March 19, 2003 Ultraviolet said:"What the hell is a shaviro?" Your worst nightmare! muhahaha. 0 Share this post Link to post
netnomad312 Posted March 19, 2003 Funny... someone at school watched me surf this site yesterday, and asked me what a WAD was. I told him, but also mentioned that they run rather big. He said a couple megs for a bunch of levels isn't a lot, and in a sense that's right. But he said that because he has a fast connection. To me, it's not the download speed that determines "big..." it's whether or not I can carry it on a disk, whether I have to zip it or span it over multiple disks, etc... 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted March 20, 2003 Assmaster said:People still use floppy disks? People still use 56k? 0 Share this post Link to post
Amaster Posted March 20, 2003 ravage said:People still use 56k? Tou-ché 0 Share this post Link to post
netnomad312 Posted March 20, 2003 Heh heh... well, I never invested in a ZIP drive, if that's what you mean. I do have a CD-Burning drive, but it won't do me any good; my other workstation is an obsolete laptop which can't acknowledge burned CD's. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted March 22, 2003 Zip drives are stupid, heh. We have one. It's pointless. 0 Share this post Link to post
Draconio Posted March 26, 2003 Check the WAD thoroughly before you release it. Make sure there are no missing textures causing HOM. Make sure that the player cannot mess up in such a way as to make the level impossible to complete (such as by falling into an inescapable area). Look at every area of your map, and ask yourself, "can this be made to look and/or play better?". For deathmatch levels, you may want to experiment with bots and try to fix problems that they have, or at least leave a note in the text file warning that bots do not work well in the level. If possible, have a friend play the level and inform you of what they liked/didn't like about it. Try to avoid releasing levels that are "good enough", make them great. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted April 10, 2003 Assmaster said:People still use floppy disks? Dell just recently started making their computers not have a floppy drive by default. You can get one if you pay an extra $20. Ah, it's a sign of the times isn't it? 0 Share this post Link to post
The Ultimate DooMer Posted April 10, 2003 Nanami said:Dell just recently started making their computers not have a floppy drive by default. You can get one if you pay an extra $20. Ah, it's a sign of the times isn't it? That's a bit off. What do they expect us to use instead as a cheap, quick and convenient way to transport stuff around on and be able to reuse it afterwards? Either that, or they believe we all have 3GHz PC's with 50 gigs HD space, 2 cd/dvd rewriters, 1 gig zip drives and plenty of time to use them. Oh wait, they're just trying to wring more money out of us (which is the whole point of big corporations...). 0 Share this post Link to post
boris Posted April 10, 2003 Ultimate DooMer said:a cheap, quick and convenient way Cheap? I believe CD-R are cheaper nowadays. Quick? Floppy disks are ass slow. Conveniet? Not if you want to transport anything that's bigger than 1.4mb. Plus, floppy disks are extremely unreliable. You just have to give them a harsh look and the data on them is damaged. BTW, you did hear of CD-RW, didn't you? 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted April 10, 2003 It's not like they're sucking money out of you. They don't come with floppy drives anymore is all. You can get one for $20, which means if you don't get one that's $20 you don't have to spend. 0 Share this post Link to post
The Ultimate DooMer Posted April 10, 2003 boris said:Cheap? I believe CD-R are cheaper nowadays. Quick? Floppy disks are ass slow. Conveniet? Not if you want to transport anything that's bigger than 1.4mb. Plus, floppy disks are extremely unreliable. You just have to give them a harsh look and the data on them is damaged. BTW, you did hear of CD-RW, didn't you? Yes I know about rewritable cd's, but the point is that not everyone has a PC that is fairly new, nor can afford one. 0 Share this post Link to post
boris Posted April 11, 2003 You don't need a good computer to burn CDs. And CD-RW drives are only ~50€. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted April 17, 2003 I tried to use a floppy yesterday for the first time in a long time, and remembered why I hate them. I had a pile of about 15, the first three of which were corrupted and the fourth had a bunch of dumb files on it and was permalocked, but I finally found one. I've heard people complain about how slow CD-Rs are, but think about it a minute... They can hold 700, 800 megs on them, and a floppy has what, 1.4 megs? If you think it takes a long time to write 100 megs on a CD think about writing that same information on floppies. That'd be like 70 disks, and those are even slower, especially changing disks, erasing old information, formatting, getting a new one if that one is corrupted... But to be realistic, it's hard to consider using floppies these days. 1.4 megs is tiny. Anything on a floppy would be several disks, and just imagine how long it takes to write/read from a floppy. Plus you can just look at them wrong and they break. I'm glad Dell started having their computers with no floppy drive by default. Good riddance. =P 0 Share this post Link to post
NiGHTMARE Posted April 17, 2003 Ultimate DooMer said:Yes I know about rewritable cd's, but the point is that not everyone has a PC that is fairly new, nor can afford one. Err, colour me stupid here, but this whole thing is about new Dell PCs not having floppy disk drives... so of course anyone who gets a new PC will have a new PC ;)... and anyone who has an old PC will have a floppy disk drive :) Nanami said:If you think it takes a long time to write 100 megs on a CD I certainly wouldn't say that it's slow: my CD-RW drive (which isn't exactly state of the art) takes less than a minute to write that much, and just over five minutes for a full (640mb) CD :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted April 17, 2003 NiGHTMARE said:Err, colour me stupid here, but this whole thing is about new Dell PCs not having floppy disk drives... so of course anyone who gets a new PC will have a new PC ;)... and anyone who has an old PC will have a floppy disk drive :) roofles NiGHTMARE said:I certainly wouldn't say that it's slow: my CD-RW drive (which isn't exactly state of the art) takes less than a minute to write that much, and just over five minutes for a full (640mb) CD :) I wouldn't say they're slow either, but I've heard people complain about it. 0 Share this post Link to post
deathbringer Posted May 21, 2003 Shav's got it right, though i have to care about the 56k users cause i am one XD, and i cant seem to ever upload something over 2 megs without it fucking up (why cant someone make a "download accelerator" for uploading?), but i can put it on CD and go round my cousins/college and use thier broadband connection (though most free webhosts these days dont take files over 5 megs, hell some draw the line and 500k, which is stupidly small) 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted May 21, 2003 Yay for reviving old-ass posts, especially just to say you agree with someone! Point was, less bandwidth used anywhere is good for anyone else anywhere that needs to use some bandwidth. Sure, there may be no shortage, I mean, that's why back when the archive was on CDROM.COM I'd always have to try several times before it would let me download a file in many cases, right? EDIT: No, that doesn't mean there will be fewer connections used, but people can get in, get their file, and get out more quickly if things are efficiently packaged and well-compressed. 0 Share this post Link to post
Epyo Posted May 22, 2003 Ultraviolet said:Yay for reviving old-ass posts, especially just to say you agree with someone! It's okay, this is a sticky thread. 0 Share this post Link to post
Tolwyn Posted June 11, 2003 And for crying out loud, before you release your wad, tilt her head... "just so.." 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted June 11, 2003 Well, now it really is a sticky thread. ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted June 12, 2003 Tolwyn said:And for crying out loud, before you release your wad, tilt her head... "just so.." Uh, I'm single again. Thanks a lot for reviving the painful memories, bastard! (Heh.) 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomRater Posted July 13, 2003 netnomad312 said:It's just that the new music can make or break the wad for me. I used Map01 as an example, but any of Doom 2's music gets repetitive. All of my favorite wads have new music... I extracted TNT's MAP04 music and still play it on Media Player 6 today (screw visualizations you stupid bloatware idiots!). It's creepy, but sounds worse from Doom95 to ZDoom unless it's run through a MIDI eidtor (I use Anvil Studio). But with that nonchantant chore done, that's one sound I absolutely love! But yes, Winnowing HAll and Map01 from Doom 2 both are annoying when I play a new WAD in them. So I built the alias STAIRWAY to handle that. alias stairway "changemus stairway.mid" 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomRater Posted July 13, 2003 Assmaster said:People still use floppy disks? I DO. I have no CD burner and even worse my CD drive does not read CD-RWs. The only way to move stuff to my computer is by CD-Rs from someone else's house or by floppies. And the only way to get it off my computer is by floppies. But that will change once I get my new computer- USB Hard Drives! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA 0 Share this post Link to post
RendermaN Posted August 17, 2003 Who even listens to the MIDI sound any more (well I cant because im to lazy to get my synth working under slack). But my point is I allways listen to Comercial music cds or MODs/MP3s when playing doom and I just crank the sound effects and turn off midi. I would prefer no one included midi sound in wads. If its a must, have a link to mp3s of good quality sound and let me burn them to cd or play them in a seperate process in the background. 0 Share this post Link to post
NiGHTMARE Posted August 17, 2003 /me wishes someone would put a notice about thread bumping in the Forum FAQ. 0 Share this post Link to post