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My 7 year old recently found this on my laptop and thinks it's fantastic.
The problem is I can only get the freeware level game to play (the one with doom1.wad) and he's finished this with the intended disappointment.
When I try with doom.wad (the registered game wad file) I get a getnamesfornumber error.
I've tried everything I can think of but it won't work.
The files were originally on a very old Compaq laptop running windows 95 and I'm beginning to think it may be an operating system problem - I have windows ME (probably the cr@piest edition of billy-boy's software ever produced).
Anyone got an original installer programme so I can reinstall using my doom.wad file?
The problem is I can only get the freeware level game to play (the one with doom1.wad) and he's finished this with the intended disappointment.
When I try with doom.wad (the registered game wad file) I get a getnamesfornumber error.
I've tried everything I can think of but it won't work.
The files were originally on a very old Compaq laptop running windows 95 and I'm beginning to think it may be an operating system problem - I have windows ME (probably the cr@piest edition of billy-boy's software ever produced).
Anyone got an original installer programme so I can reinstall using my doom.wad file?
Try getting the Doomsday engine (a nice full-3d version of Doom that uses the original WADs to run) from here -
www.doomsdayhq.com/
It's much nicer to play Doom and Doom2 in this modern engine.
www.doomsdayhq.com/
It's much nicer to play Doom and Doom2 in this modern engine.
Unfortunately I can't answer the question but my goodness you've just rekindled some memories!! We had something like 100,000 wad files and used to spend friday nigth through Sunday night playing doom SOLIDLY in a mate's basement where he had a network set up (this is early 90's so was a bit fab!) - god it was great!
Remember death matches, too?!
Oh you swine, you know what I'm going to be downloading tonight now, don't you
Remember death matches, too?!
Oh you swine, you know what I'm going to be downloading tonight now, don't you
jimsupersix said:
Try getting the Doomsday engine (a nice full-3d version of Doom that uses the original WADs to run) from here -
www.doomsdayhq.com/
It's much nicer to play Doom and Doom2 in this modern engine.
www.doomsdayhq.com/
It's much nicer to play Doom and Doom2 in this modern engine.
Is that the one that also gives you a limited "quake style" mouse look or is that another version I've seen and had?
I'm going to be all 
here now and mention that I made some Doom levels. Probably still have a couple somewhere. One was a complete map of Stony Stratford High street with all the buildings that you could go into plus hidden areas behind some wall that needed switches thrown. And a very map of the Enterprise from Star Trek, the Bridge and Picards ready roon, lifts down to the main deck (big circular corridor) with room off it, like the holodeck and sickbay and more lifts down to engineering and the hanger deck.......ah memories 
here now and mention that I made some Doom levels. Probably still have a couple somewhere. One was a complete map of Stony Stratford High street with all the buildings that you could go into plus hidden areas behind some wall that needed switches thrown. And a very map of the Enterprise from Star Trek, the Bridge and Picards ready roon, lifts down to the main deck (big circular corridor) with room off it, like the holodeck and sickbay and more lifts down to engineering and the hanger deck.......ah memories Edited by FourWheelDrift on Wednesday 5th July 16:18
Edited by FourWheelDrift on Wednesday 5th July 16:31
FourWheelDrift said:
I'm going to be all here now and mention that I made some Doom levels
here now and mention that I made some Doom levelsflippin heck!! I was chuffed when I could make a wall that you couldn't walk through and a room that actually joined up; as for an entire high street that's just damn impressive!
Duke Nukem 3d was the game that took me away from Doom - that and Blood for a while too. I never QUITE got into Quake as much. Then when they all went too 3d and modern graphics they just didn't do anything for me. Ah, the good old days
TonyHetherington said:
FourWheelDrift said:
I'm going to be all here now and mention that I made some Doom levels
here now and mention that I made some Doom levelsflippin heck!! I was chuffed when I could make a wall that you couldn't walk through and a room that actually joined up; as for an entire high street that's just damn impressive!
It took a while to do using the tools because if you did something in the wrong order it would screw up the entire build. So when I learnt the order it wasn't too bad.
Couldn't do it now though
FourWheelDrift said:
if you did something in the wrong order it would screw up the entire build
That's probably where I was going wrong! It just never quite worked for me and so I never got as interested in it as I'd have liked
It was frustrating because I'd make a box and then you'd play the Star Wars.wad (fecking excellent level that was...great for multiplayer network deathmatches) and it'd put your box into shame!
I have just spent the last minutes trying to find a disc with one of my levels on it, haven't yet but I have found one of my backup discs, under the current label it says "latest wad" unfortunately it has since been used as a McAfee VirusScan 95 backup disc...... BOLLOX!
I know I have a load of discs somewhere and if I find it I'll upload it. Why not.
I know I have a load of discs somewhere and if I find it I'll upload it. Why not.
steve_evil said:
Stony Stratford high street would be amazing, loads of back alleys there, top place for a curry and pub crawl.
I used to work in a office there, it was the starting place, you went around the rooms in the office (all the steps up and down in the right place, then out into the street and into different shops or pubs or up one or two of the alleys then finding the yellow and blue keys that enabled you to do other things and get the rek key, then back to the same room to open then red key door to an underworld section (commonly referred to as the bosses office
) This was a massive circular finale with every single monster there in big numbers, it was a huge free for all which often ended up with most of them fighting each other, you had to get to the other side to open a door and a final switch which opened the exit, but when the switch was pressed 4 very large doors opened and let all the various bosses out (all the bosses were there, spider thingy, mad cow or two etc...) I also used a the invisble line tactic a bit in the high street, when you crossed it, it triggered a door or in some cases a wall to drop and monsters to flow out behind you....I'm sorry I was evil.
I'm staggered I remember it that well
I used to have a Doom WAD that was based on Aliens - the guns, face-huggers, aliens, a boss that was Ripley in the lifter, and sound clips from the film "we are LEAVING!". God, it was great.
I also had a hack that gave the shotgun unlimited ammo and enabled it to fire at something like 10 rounds per second. I called it the "assault shotgun" and it could just mow anything down including bosses. Hilarious.
I also had a hack that gave the shotgun unlimited ammo and enabled it to fire at something like 10 rounds per second. I called it the "assault shotgun" and it could just mow anything down including bosses. Hilarious.
Glad I've rekindled some old memories.
I'll take a look at the doomsdayhq site - thanks.
Yep - I really liked the aliens wad as well.
I'm sure we used to type in cheat codes that let you do all sorts of things like get all the weapons including the BFG (oh yes) and made you invincible or invisible etc.
Whilst we're on the topic of old PC games - if I said Bolo would you know what I meant? Hours of lost youth there.
I'll take a look at the doomsdayhq site - thanks.
Yep - I really liked the aliens wad as well.
I'm sure we used to type in cheat codes that let you do all sorts of things like get all the weapons including the BFG (oh yes) and made you invincible or invisible etc.
Whilst we're on the topic of old PC games - if I said Bolo would you know what I meant? Hours of lost youth there.
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