Shovelware fun from Classic fond #8 disc

[bobstremglav]

When I was very young my dad had a friend. At one day friend for forgotten reason gave me a lot of Classic fond (russian serie of pirate collections of DOS and Windows game) discs. Since now I can't reach that friend, these discs are kinda mine. Now I can play them very enough...

Blood 2, Screamer (racing game, lol), maybe some other stuff I revealed from this serie. Hovewer, disc 8 has bunch of Doom 2 and Heretic levels

It seems like main source of games for company were american BBSes and guys from there, so I suppose they just downloaded bunch of levels, not copying existing compilations. There not really many of them, either because of storage limit or because they wanted to add only somewhat good stuff (something they told on one of later cds)
Doom 2 archive is fat to the point of 50 mbs, Heretic archive takes 8 mbs. I publish them on dropbox

There also seems... Descent levels? uh. Another cd has Duke Nukem 3D and Quake levels.

 

Here are dropbox uploads (first is Heretic, last is Doom 2).

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/enxic9mrb0cyot2eeavyk/HERETLVL.ZIP?rlkey=3r5jsnsr32cw83jnm8r17xuwy&dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f0yze8zcjkxi6s3u8bhav/DOOM2LVL.ZIP?rlkey=u20yr80idplgdlt84j5g3op9k&dl=0

I'm not so familiar with cloud storages, so if something not working or there better options - introduce me to that

 

Here screenshots from disc itself. I have yet to find these levels by myself.

Spoiler

 

Edited January 24, 2024 by bobstremglav

[iddq_tea]

Looking forward to try some of these. Love what looks like the Dark Forces gun in Heretic, with text in the Doom font, that just looks trippy.

[Walter confetti]

Thanks for sharing! I recognized already some levels, looks doesn't use only wads from the earliest years of mapping (94/95) but also from other years above, but still being in the 90s range:

• Lookout
• Oracle
• Calgon, take me away! (?)
• A fistful of Doom or Boothill
• Laura Beyers Doom (?)
• The vertical RL looks like the one from Chook Doom, a wacky sprite remake where RL shoots chickens and imps are 10 ft tall mutant chickens

[Zoti]

Out of curiosity, in this version as well as the one on Archive, Doom's maps (Alone) stop at the letter J, whereas the alphabet is complete for the other categories!

Anyone know why?

[bobstremglav]

1 hour ago, Zoti said:

Out of curiosity, in this version as well as the one on Archive, Doom's maps (Alone) stop at the letter J, whereas the alphabet is complete for the other categories!

Anyone know why?

Huh, sounds interesting. So it may be that they were copying other compilation, but at letter J they realised they make compilation of games, not doom wads shovelware

 

Or maybe they hate J and what comes after it