Doom version 1.1 Disk

[LokiUlrich]

hi i recently came across some doom game disks and was trying to figure out what I had gotten my hands on as I am unaware how many disks the original version was released with I currently have is four disks saying they are doom version 1.1 disks 1-4 now if that version didn't come with four please tell me whatr im looking at 

Edited August 22, 2020 by LokiUlrich
Pic didnt take the first time

[ellmo]

You're looking at a pirated copy, probably zipped or arj-ed to 4 disks.

Did I get the question right?

[Doomkid]

There was no 1.1, was there? Either way 4 is the right number of disks, would you considering getting a USB floppy drive and seeing what’s on there? Probably just regular old Doom, but drives are cheap these days, so if you’re interested that option is there.

[chungy]

There are registered 1.1 disks. These aren't the originals sent by id so they don't have any real market value to speak of. But yeah that's probably what you have.

[seed]

Yeah, like everyone else has said already, there were 1.1 disks, which was the first full version of registered Doom, but these are absolutely fake.

 

Just some random guy who maybe put Doom on them and called it a day. The originals would look like this from what I can find:

 

 

So, whatever you got your hands on is worthless.

Edited August 22, 2020 by seed

[Gez]

3 hours ago, ellmo said:

You're looking at a pirated copy, probably zipped or arj-ed to 4 disks.

It could also be a backup copy. (I used to do that, and then keep the original disks in their box.)

[Quasar]

9 minutes ago, Gez said:

It could also be a backup copy. (I used to do that, and then keep the original disks in their box.)

Back in the day we did this when our 500 MB hard drives filled up and we had to move stuff off just to get Windows to boot up again :>

[Doom-X-Machina]

13 hours ago, LokiUlrich said:

hi i recently came across some doom game disks and was trying to figure out what I had gotten my hands on as I am unaware how many disks the original version was released with I currently have is four disks saying they are doom version 1.1 disks 1-4 now if that version didn't come with four please tell me whatr im looking at 

Standard bootleg copy...

I confess, this is how I first encountered Doom. My uncle installed a full pirated copy on our PC in 1994 and I was hooked. I did buy The Ultimate Doom, Doom II and Final Doom a couple years later which I ended up copying to ISO and made a few backups so I always have an installable, legit copy of all the original IWADs ;)

[Chip]

Glad to see the Black Market's made its way to Doomworld. XD

Edited August 22, 2020 by LiT_gam3r

[D4NUK1]

9 minutes ago, LiT_gam3r said:

Glad to see the Black Market's made its way to Doomworld. XD

It's was always like that.

My first doom was a backup of Doom 95 so...

[Kloki38]

As was previously said, this is just a worthless copy/backup of the original floppies.  The original floppy version has 4 disks, Ultimate has 5. The original releases of Doom don´t have any form of copy protection, so at the time it was very easy to copy it (and then give the backup to somebody).  In the 90´s not a lot of people cared about whether the game they are playing is a pirated copy or not - it was a different era.

[Buckshot]

Sir, you are on a path to a life of crime...

 

 

Edited August 22, 2020 by Buckshot

[Doomkid]

If you're too poor or too young to get a fun game legitimately, you should copy all those damn floppies til the cows come home. Some call it piracy, I call it a very extended "try before you buy" approach!! (The only version of Doom 2 I owned until about 2005 was a bootleg for chrissake, that's about 8 years straight of being a no-good, dirty, rotten pirate)

[Buckshot]

37 minutes ago, Doomkid said:

If you're too poor or too young to get a fun game legitimately, you should copy all those damn floppies til the cows come home. Some call it piracy, I call it a very extended "try before you buy" approach!! (The only version of Doom 2 I owned until about 2005 was a bootleg for chrissake, that's about 8 years straight of being a no-good, dirty, rotten pirate)

 

 

....and Id software literally appeared in the sequel video just to plead with you not to pirate DOOM 3 🤣

 

Edited August 23, 2020 by Buckshot

[Doom-X-Machina]

9 hours ago, Doomkid said:

If you're too poor or too young to get a fun game legitimately, you should copy all those damn floppies til the cows come home. Some call it piracy, I call it a very extended "try before you buy" approach!! (The only version of Doom 2 I owned until about 2005 was a bootleg for chrissake, that's about 8 years straight of being a no-good, dirty, rotten pirate)

Everyone's done it. There isn't a single gamer from the 80's, 90's or even 2000's that didn't have at least 1 game they got "illegally" from a friend or family member. I remember even before 1994 my family had a Commordore 128 with a TAPE PLAYER!!! Yes, GAMES ON FUCKING CASSETTE TAPES!! And a 5 1⁄4-inch floppy drive. And not a single game was legit. It was the same with VHS tapes and music. Early 80's metal bands got their name and reputation around through tape-trading and people doing 4th, 5th, 6th generation tape copies and trading for other bands etc. It's a double-edge sword for developers and creators. The die-hards will always cough up for a legit copy at some point for ownership of something they love and that's cool.

[CBM]

 

You wouldn't steal a car
You wouldn't steal a handbag
You wouldn't steal a television
You wouldn't steal a movie

You wouldn't steal a baby

You wouldn't steal a biscuit shaped like Michael Jackson

You wouldn't steal a used diaper

You wouldn't download a car

You wouldn't steal a policemans helmet and go to the toilet in it

Copying ancient floppy disks is stealing,
stealing is against the law,
PIRACY. IT'S A CRIME

 

If you do it, you will face the consequences

 

Fan Busting Ip lawyers - F B I

Edited August 23, 2020 by CBM

[CBM]

39 minutes ago, Doom-X-Machina said:

Everyone's done it. There isn't a single gamer from the 80's, 90's or even 2000's that didn't have at least 1 game they got "illegally" from a friend or family member. I remember even before 1994 my family had a Commordore 128 with a TAPE PLAYER!!! Yes, GAMES ON FUCKING CASSETTE TAPES!! And a 5 1⁄4-inch floppy drive. And not a single game was legit. It was the same with VHS tapes and music. Early 80's metal bands got their name and reputation around through tape-trading and people doing 4th, 5th, 6th generation tape copies and trading for other bands etc. It's a double-edge sword for developers and creators. The die-hards will always cough up for a legit copy at some point for ownership of something they love and that's cool.

no.. we are all saints here, especially those of us who were born in the 70s and 80s...

 

* COUGH *

Edited August 23, 2020 by CBM

[HeGsheoshed]

Thank you for the warning that I am resurrecting an old thread. If this is a functioning backup of Doom ver 1.1 then you have a copy of the multi monitor version. Time for me to get all the disks together and see what my brother and I have between us. Lucky find.