AdamW

compet-n demos are *always* recorded in the original .exe, version 1.9. this means they will play back with the original for sure; 99% of the time they'll also play back with prboom and eternity.

@jello: doing it in one go is pretty tricky, when you're just playing map30 over and over you get in one in maybe 5 or 10 tries...when you're not focussing on it like this i'd say 1 in 20 or 1 in 30 is the chance. Getting it in two goes is quite easy, though. adamh: update? ;)

hey, just gonna dump my info in this thread because i'm Very Lazy (tm). following the profile: name and alias - AdamW live - Vancouver, B.C., Canada born - feb 22, 1982 employer - shaw cable hobbies / sports - eh, nothing worth nothing homepage / email - no homepage, adam.williamson1 AT btinternet.com for email computer specs - Athlon XP-M 2500+ @ 2.28GHz, 512MB RAM, 160GB hd, nforce2 mobo, geforce4mx graphics. displays on an RCA 27" TV. also my trusty old sony vaio C1** (same as US model C1XS) laptop. doom config - W A S D ctrl space. circa 1995. :) mice i've used over the years - random OEM POS, serial and ps/2 versions of the classic Microsoft Intellimouse, version 1 Intellimouse Explorer, and Logitech MX700 wireless optical. Currently I'm using a cheapass Logitech optical wired mouse, haven't recorded anything with it yet. size of Doom directory on your hard drive - eesh. about 2 gigs, I think. favourite Doom maps - all of episode 1, e2m3, e2m6, e2m7, e3m2, e3m9, e4m2, map02, map11, map14, map22, probably some others i forgot about. pwads, too many to name. favourite demos - anything at all by sedlo or ocelot. most things by adamh, particularly map07. most things by Vile, particularly pacifist runs. long, hard runs by Chris Ratcliff - his keyboard style is unique. favourite executables to use - original .exes for playing, baby. prboom for watching in hi-res. achievements: maps - one complete 32-map deathmatch megawad, 10 levels of another, mm2 map06, requiem map29, hacx map...er...was it 08? rejected mordeth ep2 map WHICH I STILL THINK WAS GOOD (;>). demos - ep1-0511, e1m5-055, n1m5-104, e1m6-057, p3m1, p3m9, lv02-040, pa04, pp31. those are the ones that come to mind. irc scandals: none. usenet scandals: xoleras partisan in the notorious xoleras / merlock wars of oh, so long ago... other games: what does this mean? have I done anything noteworthy for other games? not really. i was very good at quake rally. does that count? do I play doom more than any other game? - over time? hell yes. right now? no. right now I'm playing square RPGs - I'm in the middle of Chrono Cross. multiplayer doom - yup. i played on the UK BBSes while they were still active, played csdoom for a while, and had some excellent battles over the internet with slagdoom. which I won. HAHA! when did I start playing doom? december, 1993. do i make maps? - not any more, but see above. doom3? - don't have the graphics card for it yet. will be playing it when the geforce 6600GT hits the streets, though. favourite monster? - pinky. most hated monster? - sergeant. music i like - oh, way too much to list. i have a 30GB neuros of legally owned music. radiohead, nirvana, ani difranco, the delgados, jeff buckley, mercury rev, skunk anansie, melissa etheridge, madonna, nine inch nails, i'd better stop now. movies i like - best movie ever: After Life, directed by kore-eda hirokazu. anything directed by hayao miyazaki (particularly spirited away) or shunji iwai (particularly swallowtail butterfly and all about lily chou-chou). star wars. full metal jacket. finding nemo. amelie. in the mood for love. die hard. er, i'd better stop here too. girl / guy who lights my fire - my boyfriend. current type of internet connection - shaw broadband. 3mbits/sec, baby! er, i'm done.

btw, my favourite part of this run was map14, which absolutely does not go perfectly to plan :). Running into the key room with 3% health...fun stuff.

combined time for map15 and map31 in this demo is 1:09. map15 speed record is 1:22. you could probably get a little faster with a full load of weapons, but it's a much harder run than 15+31, so this is probably the optimal route.

I didn't play sedlo myself (I've watched a lot of demos), but I played ocelot once, on csdoom, with a ping advantage. I maanged to keep it to 20-15 (to him) by concentrating harder than I ever concentrated on a game before for ten minutes. Then I couldn't keep it up any more, and ended up losing comfortably. Scary :)

Congratulations, vile (haven't seen you since this came out) - about to watch it, I'm sure it rocks. Playing without sound is definitely weird - in theory you don't really need it, but I've made some runs without sound and I always find I play much better with it turned on. as vile himself said, he's not the best dm player - if you want your arse well and truly handed to you on a plate in deathmatch, play sedlo (if you can find him, anyway) or ocelot. that *hurts*. speedrunning and dm are very different, although most speedrunners are at least very good at dm.

more like moving-to-canada-in-a-week pressure that's affecting mine, hehe...hope to get something else done before I go, though.

http://www.knopper.de/ is Knoppix, the biggest CD-image distro. It's one ISO, download it, write it to a CD, boot it, and you should have Linux. Let me know when you get that far and we can figure out the rest :)

vince: you could always boot linux and run using dosemu. That's how I play for compet-n now and there's no lag at all. You could probably do it from a boot CD like Knoppix, so no need to install Linux to hard disk...

Doom under XP always feels a bit wrong, in my experience.

sudtic, teutic, obtic, mm, mm2, req, hr, hr2, strain, icarus, av, and probably some others i forgot :). currently working my way through vile flesh, see the demos forum. all UV. of course.

what do you mean by Doom's 16-bit "as far as graphics are concerned", anyway? Doom on the PC is 32-bit code, full stop - it won't run on a 286. SNES Doom used a completely different engine written from scratch for the SNES. The graphics are 8-bit in that they're 256 colour.

ok, so i lied - mlb.tv is broken tonight, so i played some more :). 4:33 for map09 now, i'm happy with it there. edit: http://www.doomworld.com/sda/dwdemo/VF-pack/vi09-433.zip :)

so, I got under 5:00 for map09 - 4:53. still not entirely happy with that, might improve it again tomorrow. sent to op, though. edit: http://www.doomworld.com/sda/dwdemo/VF-pack/vi09-453.zip

I just sent opulent a fairly rough 5:19, i'll try and go under 5:00 tomorrow, gonna sleep now :) edit: http://www.doomworld.com/sda/dwdemo/VF-pack/vi09-519adam.zip

OK, just made a horrible 6:36 first exit for MAP09. Is it right that this map hasn't been done before? Why not? Don't want to send this out, it's too ugly. Will improve tonight or tomorrow.

I've been calling my demos adam02.lmp for so long now I forget what happened to adam01.lmp :D. I always just use -record adam02 and overwrite till I get one i like, then rename it. I honestly don't remember why. hehe.

if lv17-159 deserved to be in there, so did hr02. it's an extremely good run - very much like running episode 1 nightmare or pacifist, lots of instant hit enemies and nowhere near enough health. very hard. i have to admit i was surprised lv17 got in there though, it's a fairly knock-off run that i was never really happy with...

ok, made a much nicer-looking 2:20 and sent to opulent. edit: http://www.doomworld.com/sda/dwdemo/VF-pack/vi08-220adam.zip

just made an ugly 2:24 for map08. i'll try and improve later.

yeah. ExM8 times never count for compet-n, as until lmpc existed there was no way to tell what the time was.

I'll be waiting.

ryback: oh, I've done it too. as for knowing maps - back when I record p3m1, it took me about six days of playing five hours a day...by the end of that I could actually play through about the first fifteen seconds of the map without looking at the screen :)

finally managed horrible map07 in under five minutes. 4:55 sent to opulent. I have never, ever played a level which suffers from the "shooting through enemies" bug as badly as this one. eesh. The exit room is ridiculously lucky, though - with this much health I expected to die, instead I save about five seconds...