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BOOM uses the Allegro game library for sound. Its not that hard to use, but its definitely NOT a matter of plug-n-play, and its also only available on the DJGPP (extended DOS) platform, which seems to be largely out of favor with DOOM players these days ::sighs::

How many people who DO have their own bedroom LAN's would like to have it? :->

SMMU can do it via the level header map info.

Version 1.1 of DOOM had the ability to set up a network game with 3 terminals, 2 of them acting as dummies which displayed views 90 degrees to the left and to the right of the player. This feature disappeared when v1.2 got its new network code, although there's still some legacy code floating around for the feature in modern source ports. AFAIK, no one has tried to reimplement it -- a shame I think.

SMMU has full runtime map loading capability, and AFAIK, it works fine.

1. Eternity is GPL, therefore anyone can use any part of it they want. Its not been released so the source isn't available, but I am always willing to share specific enhancements with other source port authors. 2. I have never said that Eternity will not be finished. Mystican and Prower are the ones who always say that ;) Projects have rough times, sometimes you wish you could quit. With 3 years put into this now, I'm no where near it. 3. AFAIK, Lee Killough does not mind other ports using his enhancements as long as they give full credit. MBF is GPL, after all. Lee wasn't an asshole and he didn't make MBF so that it could rot on cdrom.com. His valuable contributions should be in ALL ports, IMHO 4. There will be at least one huge battle sequence in Eternity, but I will carefully monitor frame rates. If the bots put too much lag on it, they will be cut down. Bots will not appear in most stages unless you explicitly add them yourself. Their use as helper entities will naturally be limited. That's about all I can think of :->

Great, great :-> I'll be emailing you soon.

The German government bans and censors many violent things, including console games. Look at the hack job that Konami had to do to the Euro version of Castlevania: Bloodlines to be able to sell it in Germany. I've heard a lot of European gamers griping that the German government ruins it for everyone over there, because the game companies only want to put out one version for the whole continent, and as such, that version must be compliant with the German standards. You'd think that after experiences like World War II, European governments wouldn't be interested in such fascism.

No, its not the same. The normal blast radius calls a function called PIT_RadiusAttack, the vile attack uses PIT_VileAttack IIRC. The jump effect is not caused directly by the blast radius damage, its done on the side by giving only the direct target of the attack a z momentum.

There's nothing at all new about this. Archviles, unlike cybies and masterminds, aren't immune to blast radius -- they can kill themselves with it if you turn on god mode and run up to them repeatedly. Rather amusing, IMHO.

As you can imagine a DOOM port to an embedded system would be somewhat of a feat. I'm not going to say at all that it's impossible, since the SNES, with its 4 MHz CPU, 20 MHz coprocessor, and 256 KB (!) of work RAM was able to run a version good enough to at least remind you of DOOM. But get this -- a fully stripped and compressed SMMU executable is still more than 600 KB. That's more RAM than a TI-89 has altogether. And that's just talking about code, says nothing about where you're going to store the ~20 MB IWAD. You'd need to use a lot of cheap hacks and clever compression tricks, that's for sure. Plus I doubt DOOM would be very playable unless the 91 has a color LCD.

Hey... that sounds exactly like what we could use for Eternity TC -- think you have enough time to do two extra enemies? We need the Lesser Demon and the Portal Guardian for episode I -- the first being a blue baron with demon wings and a different head, the second being a bionic archvile.

SMMU can do it too, but you'd have to use some FraggleScript to make use of it. You'd use the script calling codepointer in the frame you want to make the sound, then have the script called from that frame play your new sound. SMMU automatically hashes in all DS* lumps it finds in any wad, making them valid sounds. A pretty cool way to do it IMO.

The only actual carry-over as a character is Minotaurus - he's supposed to be an actual Maulotaur from the heretic/hexen universe :) The clerics use the sprite, yes, but they are not the same character(s), and don't use the same attacks or behaviours. Just thought I'd mention that.

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That's funny, I could have sworn it was "Orangoon die im vuli ex of e yeat de mea houge" heheheh

Its easy for you non-coders to accuse Randy of being a code ripper, but then how many of you would actually be able to open the zdoom source and understand it enough to put your theories to the test? Well I've worked some with the zdoom source, and while *some* of it is more or less directly from other sources, a heck of a lot of it is totally original, and even that which is borrowed has been added to, fixed, and expounded upon significantly. Now if Randy would just integrate a few more MBF features, it'd be perfect! ^_^

Look at that demo going out of sync ^_^ funny stuff

First off, everyone should know that the screenshots page is horribly out of date. Gate to Halcyon has been retextured, Dreadmere has been detailed, and the castle, well, those are horrible shots period, they do no justice to the level. That is also certainly not reflective of all the map work either. MAP01/MAP08 is in progress, MAP02 is finished, MAP03 and MAP05 are in progress, MAP06 is in progress, MAP07 is in the planning stages, MAP16 is about 80% finished, MAP18 is MAP03 in the past, and MAP19 is in progress. The first episode will be released first naturally, and encompasses MAP01-MAP08. We also have been given 4 levels by Holger Nathrath, 1 by Chrozoron, and 1 by Adam_mm2 which have not found a final location in the project, but are largely complete. As for a release date, if you're so anxious, why don't you come help out? :)