doom shareware content

[jeroa]

Does the doom shareware wad only include the sprites and textures you see in kditd?

[DavidN]

That’s right - no monsters from episodes 2 and 3, and also missing the plasma gun and BFG!

[Edward850]

5 minutes ago, jeroa said:

Does the doom shareware wad only include the sprites and textures you see in kditd?

Having the unused assets in the shareware WAD would have been a gigantic waste of time for dial-up users trying to download said shareware version. It was 1993 and people weren't even guaranteed to have 56K modems.

[jeroa]

1 hour ago, Edward850 said:

It was 1993 and people weren't even guaranteed to have 56K modems.

 

take that people who say the 90's were the best decade!

[cybdmn]

10 hours ago, jeroa said:

 

take that people who say the 90's were the best decade!

 

The 90s had the best games, no 0-day patches, no patches for console games at all. No need for broad internet connections.

[Doomkid]

The lesson here is to appreciate the past without glorifying it I suppose. Every decade should be better than the one preceding it in theory or else we’d moving backwards socially, culturally and technologically. Right now we have all the cool shit that was invented in the 90’s but also everything since then. It’s great.

 

uh but yeah shareware only has the necessary assets for ktitd as was already stated [/desperate attempt at staying on topic]

[Edward850]

14 minutes ago, cybdmn said:

 

The 90s had the best games, no 0-day patches

That's not exactly true. Now granted it's not "day 0", but given gold masters of current games are printed 2 months in advance, it's fairly similar: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Versions_of_Doom_and_Doom_II#Release_builds

 

14 minutes ago, cybdmn said:

no patches for console games at all

Only because there was no distribution method for them. There have been numerous console games in the pre network console era that have had not only multiple prints with important fixes, but also fixes between regions. You've likely heard of games with bugs only present in NTSC releases for example. 

Edited November 16, 2019 by Edward850

[cybdmn]

Not that i didn't appreciate all the broadband stuff we have right now. Without them, movie streaming would be non-existent. But from the gaming point of view it wasn't necessary to have a broadband internet connection. All stuff we downloaded back then (mostly drivers, some patches and maps) fitted to a floppy disc.

[seed]

7 minutes ago, cybdmn said:

Not that i didn't appreciate all the broadband stuff we have right now. Without them, movie streaming would be non-existent. But from the gaming point of view it wasn't necessary to have a broadband internet connection. All stuff we downloaded back then (mostly drivers, some patches and maps) fitted to a floppy disc.

 

But that also made the process more difficult, by having to get more floppies to get the extra goodies or updates rather than having most things a mouse click away, as internet was more like a luxury back then and connection were nowhere near as good as they are today.

Edited November 16, 2019 by seed