DAC Demos?

[Dr. Zin]

I know there was talk about doing some demos for the Doom Advent Calender 2005. Did that ever happen?

[myk]

There are some here. Also one more here, of DAC 13. Not sure if there are any more yet.

[Grazza]

I don't know of any others beyond those.

I'd guess that it didn't prove popular for recording for several reasons: never merged into a single wad, several compatibility issues (some "Zdoomisms", for instance) that were never resolved (or that would be difficult to resolve), and some maps that weren't very playable from a pistol start. Those issues would have made a demo pack at the very least fiddly to arrange.

That's not to say that more individual demos wouldn't be welcome, of course.

[Dr. Zin]

While DAC is being discussed, the current version of my DAC7 map in the archives has a bug that was fixed. Can I just upload the correct version with a note to Halderman to replace the current file?

[Donce]

Dr. Zin said:

While DAC is being discussed, the current version of my DAC7 map in the archives has a bug that was fixed. Can I just upload the correct version with a note to Halderman to replace the current file?

There is a line in the txt template "Update to". You should tell there which file is being updated.

[Dr. Zin]

Thanks!

[RjY]

Yeah Opulent did 13 and I did 11, 12 and 17. There's also a thread where Opulent, Grazza and Kristian tear 19 to pieces but that was a year before it became DAC19 so I don't know if that counts :)

I wanted to do more DAC demos e.g. 3, 15, 20, 24 but, well, you know how it is. You try to play maps aggressively enough to make a decent-looking demo but you keep dying. If you play defensively enough to beat the map, you end up with a demo that's too dull to watch.

PS Good to hear we're finally getting the fixed version of 7

[Kristian Ronge]

Thanks for reminding me of those runs. :-)
(although I would rather not have been reminded of that unbelievably daft accidental automated strafe50 thing)

I played around with that speedvilla map again, and did:
UV reality max in 0:56
UV max in 0:51

A very pleasant and nostalgic session! :-D

[Dr. Zin]

RjY said:

PS Good to hear we're finally getting the fixed version of 7

Yeah, I didn't realize the Torn had sent the older version into the archives until recently.

[Dr. Zin]

The corrected version of DAV7 is now in the archive.