2 questions

[Lorenzo]

2 questions:

1)Is there a way to play the alpha versions of DooM with a source port?

2)Which one was the first pwad ever created (and release) ?

Thank,
Lorenzo

[myk]

Lorenzo said:
Is there a way to play the alpha versions of DooM with a source port?

No, only the beta. The alphas aren't playable anyway. I think deathz0r had been porting them to EDGE, though.

Which one was the first pwad ever created (and release) ?

Possibly this one (or the first user-made map, at least.)

[CODOR]

Lorenzo said:

1)Is there a way to play the alpha versions of DooM with a source port?

WinMBF can emulate the press-release beta and includes the three levels from the beta in betalevl.wad. You have to give the -beta command switch like this:

winmbf -beta -iwad doom.wad -file betalevl.wad

There were also two wads with the 0.4 and 0.5 alpha resources ripped and converted into a format playable with vanilla Doom called (I think) 0_4resor.wad and 0_5resor.wad.

2)Which one was the first pwad ever created (and release) ?

origwad.wad was created a little over 12 years ago by hand (presumably with a hex editor).

[myk]

CODOR said:
origwad.wad was created a little over 12 years ago by hand (presumably with a hex editor).

Yeah, that's the one I was linking... but I failed or forgot to paste the URL (doh!)

[Lorenzo]

thank you!
I'll try to play them via WinMBF.

Well, there is a win version of MBF?
I'll have to update my Source Port Genealogy!

Lorenzo