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- Short: Doom.wad walkthrough demo (ECS | AGA)
- Uploader: fehr@snowhite.aes.mb.doe.ca (John Fehr)
- Author: fehr@snowhite.aes.mb.doe.ca (John Fehr)
- Type: gfx/misc
-
- [ Note - This demo needs a 68020 or better cpu. There are different versions
- for aga and ecs machines. ]
-
- This is the first 'official' demo version of bsp. On the ECS machines it
- uses a 6 bitplane extra-halfbrite screen, while on AGA machines it uses a 256
- color screen.
-
- This clone is different from all the others I've seen in that it actually
- uses a doom.wad file. (In other words, to run this program you MUST have
- either the shareware doom.wad file, or the registered one in the current
- directory. I would recommend the shareware one, because its -much- faster
- loading.) Quicker loading can be achieved with the 'addbuffers' command.
-
- What's new in version 1.0? A number of things, actually. First of all
- (and most important for most of you) its a LOT faster. (Between 5 and 10
- times faster depending on your machine, at least with the machines I've
- tested it on.) Second, (and having quite a bit to do with the first) the
- fp stuff is gone. Well, most of it anyway. (How the heck am I supposed
- to get rid of sqrt? Anyone got an integer version? :) Third, there's
- an AGA version! (There may even be a EGS version coming soon.) Fourth,
- and this will make a number of people that emailed me with problems
- getting the screen to open happy, is that I've taken out the
- 'NTSC_MONITOR' tag, so it should open on any screen. I've also taken
- out the little sector dividing lines in the original version.
-
- Comments (and especially complements if you're so inclined) are welcome at the
- email address below. Of specific interest is the speed on various machines.
- (There's an option to test the speed.) Also, any bug reports (other then the
- sector dividing lines) are also welcome.
-
- The demo will (hopefully) be on aminet as gfx/misc/bsp1.0.lha.
-
- ALL code in this demo is Copyright 1994 by John Fehr. No portion of it
- can be used in any programs without the authors consent.
-
- Many thanks to:
-
- James Cooper, Lee Metcalfe, John Hendrikx, and Dave Mulligan for various
- testing and help.
-
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- John Fehr fehr@snowhite.aes.mb.doe.ca
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