Julian Posted September 4, 2001 COMPET-N, the well known DOOM runners gathering, has been updated after quite a long time. It was worth the wait since the update features more than 70 demos. 0 Share this post Link to post
Adam Hegyi Posted September 4, 2001 I really don't want to sound picky, but spell it either COMPET-N or Compet-N. 0 Share this post Link to post
Opulent Posted September 4, 2001 Usual high quality stuff; but I really recommend the 3-player Doom2 demo by Henning, Vincent, and Selim. outstanding teamwork and very entertaining from all 3 perspectives(prboom desyncs on Map29 btw). 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted September 4, 2001 What's the origin of the name "Compet-N"? :P 0 Share this post Link to post
AdamW Posted September 4, 2001 Directory structure, basically. When COMPET-N started off, it was pretty much just a directory of cdrom.com (well, it could've been one of the older sites to start with...don't remember if we'd starting using cdrom.com by the time COMPET-N started off), with Steven Widlake looking after it. Since cdrom.com kept standard 8.3 filenames, the name had to fit into 8 characters, hence COMPET-N. And it's uppercase I guess because standard DOS reports everything as uppercase (though since cdrom.com runs *nix, it would've been lower-case at the server end...) 0 Share this post Link to post
Adam Hegyi Posted September 4, 2001 Simon Widlake always wrote it as Compet-N, I think the uppercase/lowercase thing comes from DOOM/DooM, people who write DOOM write COMPET-N, people who write DooM write Compet-N. 0 Share this post Link to post
Adam Hegyi Posted September 4, 2001 And COMPET-N didn't start on cdrom.com, it started as ftp://brains.cc.rl.ac.uk/ftp/pub/DoomLMPS/. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted September 4, 2001 I write capitalized N to sound "shun" since in "formalized" speedwriting that's how words are simplified - competition becomes cmptN. I don't write Doom DooM. 0 Share this post Link to post
YicklePigeon Posted September 4, 2001 com puh tun? thats what cmptN translates to me as... : For the FIRST TIME EVER I agree with Crispy: what-EVERRRRRRRRRRRRR (read as annoying 13 year old often on family TV shows being a pain saying it to his or her parents whilst holding their hand in front of their parent's faces). Phew...(sigh)... Compoota: End Translation. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ryback Posted September 4, 2001 Adam is right, "The DooM and DooM II .LMP's 'Competition' Site" just got shortened to COMPET-N. 0 Share this post Link to post
AdamW Posted September 5, 2001 Doh, of course it did. How could I forget a URL like that? :) 0 Share this post Link to post