Doom Archive Reopened

Obiwan Kenobi writes "Computer game history buffs rejoice: Lee Killough's Doom Archive has been reopened at John Romero's site. Its been offline since 1998, when it was handed to Romero to look after, and has finally resurfaced. The info inside is priceless, if a bit Romero-centric, but who can deny the nostalgia of downloadable alpha versions, beta screenshots (complete with wild health meters) and the original Doom Press Release where the game tagline reads "Doom-the sanest place is behind a trigger.""

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Service Temporarily Unavailable- Here's the index

[Anonymous Coward]

Contents

• Older Versions of Doom
  • Alpha, beta, shareware, and downgradable registered versions
• Doom History
  • History behind many of Doom's features
• Doom Memorabilia
  • Downloadable demonstrations of Doom weirdness, including some (in)famous bugs
• Articles on Doom and id Software
  • Interviews with the Doom crew, plus articles on id
• Scholarly Works Related to Doom
  • Technical reports which could have influenced, or were influenced by, Doom
• Doom Humor
  • Doom Insanity, DOOMed airline, SPISPOPD
• Doom Editing
  • Technical info
• Download Area
  • Links to downloadable files on this site
• Acknowledgements
• Disclaimer
• Back To Main DOOM //ROME.RO Page

Wow 10 years

[RumpRoast]

It strike anyone else that this seems like sort of a long time? It's been almost that long since the original release.

Revolutionary Programming and Advanced Design Make For Great Gameplay

DALLAS, Texas, January 1, 1993-Heralding another technical revolution in PC programming, Id Software's DOOM promises to push back the boundaries of what was thought possible on a 386sx or better computer. The company plans to release DOOM for the PC in the third quarter of 1993, with versions planned for Windows, Windows NT, and a version for the NeXTall to be released later.

Hrm, his site may be down

[dethl]

But hes teaching for the Arts and Engineering program at the University of Texas at Dallas (where I'm hoping to go, major in computer science however)... Why yes this IS John Romero's name on the faculty list :P

smashing pumpkins

[WilyKit]

Sign the petition to get IDSPISPOPD in Doom 3!

Re:Features in the alpha / beta versions

[robson]

Does anyone know if the beta and alpha versions had any features that were cut out of the final version of Doom?

Here's the Doom Bible (and PDF version)... it seems to detail lots of stuff that was planned but didn't make it in.

Re:How can I run those?

[(startx)]

For a /. readers OS, I'd recommend PrBoom . For windows, you'd have to go with WinDoom . Of course you have to have the wad files, but I'm sure if your asking how to run it you've allready got those right.........

Re:nice screenshot resolution ;)

[Jugalator]

That's actually an interesting comment, since Blizzard recently announced they're making their pretty ancient games for Gameboy's.

I guess the low system requirements make them easier to port without cutting down on features. :-)