Re: Doomer/Quaker screen shots

Raymond Martineau wrote:
> Actually, Doom has weaknesses.  There's a bunch of engine and design 
> limits that tend to produce a maximum map size (see information about
> the map lumps - indexes are only 16-bit values providing a hardcoded
> limit of 65535).

I have yet to come across a wad that comes remotely close to reaching 
these limits.

> There are some source ****ts that fix the old limits, but they only 
> appeared when Quake 2 was released.  Even then, the source ****ts
> can't really work around a hard coded limit without breaking
> compatability in some manner (e.g. map editors need to be rewritten
> to sup****t the new map style).

I think Doom as it is today, post-Boom, is better than the original 
specifically because it removes the only weaknesses Doom used to have ;-)

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