Comments on: Dark Magicks: Doom In A Browser

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By: Another one

Another one — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:18:50 +0000

FPS in browsers in I mean, and in Shockwave…

By: Another one

Another one — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:16:29 +0000

Done ages ago… and zirillion times better…

http://necromanthus.com/main.html

By: duhreem

duhreem — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:52:04 +0000

Could be a subtle indicator of relative weapon strength, I suppose. Like everything else it’s already been discussed to death on the internet so I don’t need to think about it any more, phew:

http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Doom%27s_protagonist#Left_handed.3F

By: duhreem

duhreem — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:39:55 +0000

Me neither. I just checked, and he’s left handed with pistol and punching, right handed with chainsaw, shotguns and plasma gun, and you can’t tell with the rest. IIRC in multi your avatar is right handed. Odd.

By: chesh

chesh — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:33:41 +0000

Surely I’m not the only one who never realized that Doom Guy is left-handed.

By: Mr Lizard

Mr Lizard — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:11:49 +0000

Heh, that’s the first time I’ve played Doom. It’s quite good, actually.

By: sockpuppetclock

sockpuppetclock — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:18:21 +0000

Mike is an admin on Newgrounds, so it obviously comes from Newgrounds!@

By: diebroken

diebroken — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:19:54 +0000

For anyone who’s interested here’s a archive of DOOM shareware versions (Although some zips appear to be broken):

http://www.doomworld.com/pageofdoom/shareware.html

Alternative place to get some of the files:

http://www.doomarchive.com/ListFiles.asp?FolderId=216&ContentsFolderId=216

DOOM Shareware v1.0 runs fine in DOSBox 7.2 (Thanks DOSBox team!).

Loading the setup program allows you to select keyboard only or a combination of the keyboard with either the mouse or joystick. This is reiterated in the ReadMe doc, there’s even a section on ‘Mouse Sensitivity’ and a troubleshoot section ‘Why doesn’t my mouse work with DOOM?’.

On a side note to an earlier RPS article, it even has mention of quicksave (F6) and quickload (F9). ;)

It’s all down to personal preference; I’ve known friends who soley used the keyboard for DOOM and Quake, and they could move and turn really fast. They could even use the look up and down keys to aim while jumping in Quake and perform perfectly timed rocket jumps – it looked damn cooler than using the mouse and I couldn’t tell the difference! :)

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:57:00 +0000

Most flash games already have save functions over cookies. Dofus Arena or how it’s called, is very XCOMesqe.

By: Mind Elemental

Mind Elemental — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:17:52 +0000

While the thought of browser XCom is awesome, how would you save the game?

By: Gnarf

Gnarf — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:53:25 +0000

Yeah, maybe not. I think it’s kind of cool. Maybe not that particular limitation, but the whole kind of “you move and you shoot” thing it has going. Like the other extreme, opposite of having alternate fires for all your weapons and lean left/right buttons. And again, the level design takes that limitation into account, so I don’t like breaking it when I try to beat those levels.

Pace: Yeah. That’s nearly what I was getting at in my last post. The wiki says that there’s a tip that recommends using mouse+keyboard, which sounds about right. What I said came off more like as if the manual as a whole tells you to use mouse+keyboard, which is all wrong.

And there’s a copy of the manual for DOOM at replacementdocs, so it seems there is one (and it’s from the right year and everything, so it’s probably not just from some re-release or something). It contains the same tip.