Graf Zahl Posted August 5, 2016 I just pulled these off some old backup CD but since they come without text file or any other info I have no idea what they actually are. Does anybody recognize some of these 5 maps? http://www104.zippyshare.com/v/n4ZCEJyN/file.html 0 Share this post Link to post
kuchitsu Posted August 5, 2016 E1M7 is TMP.WAD, a winner of a 1994 PC Zone WAD competition. Perhaps the other two Doom 1 levels come from that competition as well? The others are a mistery to me. 0 Share this post Link to post
Graf Zahl Posted August 5, 2016 Thanks. There's another mystery: How can this be a winner of some contest and the author is unknown...? It's unlikely that the others are from the same source. I extracted these levels from some old compilation WADs - the rest of the maps in there came with text files but these 5 were missing them. Seeing that tmp.wad was only uploaded to /idgames in 2011 the most likely reason is that it originally never had a text file. Maybe the same was true for the others as well. 0 Share this post Link to post
Angry Saint Posted August 5, 2016 Never seen before, sorry can't help. But I have a question: would it be possible to create a program that take as input a doom level and compare it with all levels in archives, by shape or similar, and then give as output if there are "similar" levels already present? 0 Share this post Link to post
kuchitsu Posted August 5, 2016 Apparently the contest winner was announced in the December 1994 issue of PC Zone. I guess it won't be easy to locate it now. This is the best I could find: http://web.archive.org/web/20090722121700/http://www.robinnixon.com/pczone/ Wanna pay 10 euro for a piece of Doom history? If someone has spare money, it's on eBay right now: http://www.ebay.ie/itm/PC-ZONE-ISSUE-21-DECEMBER-1994-COVER-DISC-Retro-Gaming-Magazine-RARE-/201636147435?hash=item2ef27370eb:g:~kYAAOSwIgNXnePk 0 Share this post Link to post
