> That's right. But if you're such an "old hand" as you profess to be,
it's
> strange that you didn't know Doom2 was first issued on 3.5" floppy. It
> was a LONG time (probably measured in YEARS) before it ever came out on
a
> CDROM.
What a load of bull**** your talking.
1) Lets see: Doom2 was released on 30th September 1994
2) And I am sure you can click on this link:
http://tinyurl.com/8lq9t
3) I am sure you can see Google records Jay Vaughan, probalby Californian,
posting on Oct 7 1994, 2:58 am
and he says "Looks pretty good. I especially like the fact that I can
install it
straight off of CD. And finally some good AWE32 sup****t."
And if you read the rest of thread, it is apparent that GT Interactive
released floppy and CDROM versions AT THE SAME TIME!!!!
4) I can post dozens of threads all dated at the end of 1994, all of which
confirm the above.
LONG time eh????
YEARS eh???
What a laugh.
5) You don't know for sure the GT Interactive released floppy versions in
every country.
Truth be told, I have never seen the floppy version. I did not know it
existed. I bought the CDROM version soon after launch in Virgin
Megastores,
Oxford Street, Central London. Perhaps they killed the floppy version off,
shortly after release (I am sure I can find out if push come to shove).
After all, in January 1994, NEC Technologies released the first Quad-Speed
CDROM, it was becoming common, then, for PCs to have CDROM drives. Only a
matter of time for all games to be released on CDROM format only.
6) Now is there any other unsubstantiated claim you want to make about
Doom/Doom2?
>> Of course it hasn't. That's just a silly statement that has nothing to
>> do
>> with Doom2 being released first on 3.5" disks.
I know that. But it is easy to forget how the passage of time changes
things. Right now it is 2005.
But in 2010, the games then are likely to have _SO_ many images/sounds
that
DVD and/or some type of stream straight off a vendors server is likely to
be
the only practical format. Distributing on CDROMs will be laughable, in
2010.
And I am claiming that 1994 was a cross-over year. It was the year when
software vendors started realistically thinking of distributing on CDROM
and
no longer on floppy. A few years later and the floppy became impractical.
Same type of relation****p of different medias.
One other thing:
I played Keen/Wolfenstein when released quite a bit.
After that I lost touch with what ID Software was doing.
And some time later while working at a company, a American friend of mine
introduced me to Heretic 1.0 shareware. He gave me a CDROM. I took no
notice. Then another friend visting my place loaded it up. I was stunned.
After he had gone, I played all 9 levels pretty quick. I then found out
there was a London phone number where you could order the registered
3-episode version of Heretic 1.2. Got it within a week. So I played that.
By
this time I had worked out it was ID Software's engine and DOOM was based
on
that, just never seen DOOM. And shortly after DOOM2 came out followed by
Ultimate DOOM in the gamestores. It was 1994. So I never played or saw the
original DOOM, just
Shareware Heretic
Registered Heretic
Doom 2
Ultimate Doom
in that order. I think I downloaded Doom 1, Shareware while playing Doom2
it
is hard to remember. But Ultimate Doom (the GT Interactive) followed Doom2
(and shortly after that Hexen, Doom Master Levels, DKofDC followed on).
All of these were on CDROM. And also at the same time I signed up with
Compuserve and "met" Jim Flynn on the Action Game forum.
Stephen Howe
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