fraggle Posted September 5, 2001 Fraggle here with the weekly FreeDoom update. This week has been fairly busy. We have had texture submissions fromEspi, KMan, Hyena, AirRaid and cph. Of particular interest are this patchand this patch which are replacements for the marble demon face textures.Credit goes to Espi for submitting them :). Our status on the wall patchespassed 70% this week - there are now only around a hundred patches leftuntil we have a complete texture wad. On the sprites front, we have Techlamps from Sir Fragsalot and Plasmafrom Hyena, as well as bullet puffs from Pickle_hammer. Espi alsosubmitted a pistol replacement and Fredrik submitted his replacementfor the BFG - the S.K.A.G. (which I believe stands for Super KickAss Gun :). Of particular interest, we received word from Saint of Killers abouthis work on the mancubus replacement. There are some interestingpreliminarysketches here. Be sure to check out the latest wad. See you next week! 0 Share this post Link to post
ChaosOverlord Posted September 5, 2001 The links aren't working.. hmm.. 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest demoness Posted September 5, 2001 what the fuck? I downloaded it and its in .gz format! Thats for the mac! Fucking shit. 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Excalibur_Z Posted September 5, 2001 WinZip and most other decompression utilities can handle .gz (which is for Linux). I'm not so sure about that Mancubus though, he looks more drolling and sluggish rather than buff and heavily armed. But if nobody has any better ideas, then go with it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted September 5, 2001 Why must he be buff and heavily armed? The Mancubus is a slow moving fatty. I don't see the problem. 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Excalibur_Z Posted September 6, 2001 I'm sorry, I see the incredibly morbidly obese in higher regard than you do Linguica =) 0 Share this post Link to post
Hyena Posted September 6, 2001 If you have trouble with that file format, you can download the wad itself by clicking the link at the bottom of the screen: Browse deutex/wads/ manually Also, if winzip won't accept gz you can try with winrar. That's what I do. 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest demoness Posted September 6, 2001 the replacement for the manc. looks cool if you ask me. 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted September 6, 2001 .gz is not a mac format, so i have no idea why you're saying it is. WinZip and most other compression programs support it, infact recent versions of Internet Explorer uncompress it FOR YOU so you dont even need winzip. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sir Fragsalot Posted September 6, 2001 Goddammit is he gonna get mentioned in every update? Actually, that'd be kinda cool. Now if he only didn't get my ip banned from #doom... 0 Share this post Link to post
mystic Posted September 6, 2001 That was the fastest download ever, more than 13 KB/sec constantly on my 56kb modem, how is that possible? 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest o-tech Posted September 6, 2001 uhm... were those two patches linked because someone feels they're extraordinarily good, or, as I hope, because they're hillarious? 0 Share this post Link to post
Espi Posted September 6, 2001 Well, draw better ones yourself then. Shouldn't be that hard. :) It's pretty hard to draw an evil face without it looking silly instead. 0 Share this post Link to post
fen boi Posted September 6, 2001 You're right, that first one is damn funnay 0 Share this post Link to post
Julian Posted September 6, 2001 yeah Ola, come and make some gfx for freedoom :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Busted Corpse Posted September 6, 2001 uh..... I cant get my winzip to unzip .gz files (I downloaded the latest one last week)... any ideas? (apart from my own retardedness, of course ;S ) 0 Share this post Link to post
sgtcrispy Posted September 6, 2001 Actually all you need to do is rename the zip and delete the .gz extention and then doom can run the file. works for me anyway... 0 Share this post Link to post
Gilgamesh Posted September 6, 2001 i didn´t like it... looks like a bubble of meat... :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted September 6, 2001 I think the mancubus sketch looks awful, disgusting and putrid. All good things, in this case. A nice, and quite horrible looking concept. I hope the full version manages to capture the feeling I get from the concept drawing. Nice one! 0 Share this post Link to post
Jon Posted September 6, 2001 if you download the .gz using IE, 'save as' .wad instead of .wad.gz because ie auto-expands it. this also explains erroneous transfer rates in IE when grabbing the file (I myself got ~190KB/s.. yeah right) 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted September 6, 2001 The download rate is the rate of uncompressed data, I think. So if the file is a 4:1 compressed file, the displayed transfer rate will be 4x the actual transfer rate. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted September 6, 2001 That and if you actually pondered where to save the file (in the save file dialog), during that time IE has already transferred part of the file, but IE does not start timing the download until you click "save", so it already has a section of the file creditted towards the total. 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Excalibur_Z Posted September 6, 2001 Someone said that already too ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
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