Excalibur 1.1
I confess! I'm not a *true* DOOMer. I like the game the most at the HMP (He Must Practice ?!) level. I want to have some time to take a closer look at the en...
Filenames
DOOMXCAL.WAD, xcalib11.wad, xcalib11.zip
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377.80 KB
MD5
1897643890c81791216d9633c5f35b2c
SHA-1
bf6b3b28ea658a646805551f12428c2c9964c22f
SHA-256
9cb616b00d4409d39d2527832f6cd6c3cc1b5bad43f98bcc5c80075d38506256
WAD Type
PWAD
IWAD
Doom
Engines
Doom
Lumps
14
Maps
E2M1
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Title : Excalibur 1.1 Filename : XCALIB11.WAD = EXCALIBR.WAD Version 1.1 Author : Stefan Maes Email Address : [email protected] WWW Homepage : http://www.uia.ac.be/u/maes/index.html Snail Mail : Verbiststraat 8 2920 Kalmthout Belgium Misc. Author Info : Ph.D. student at the University of Antwerp (Chemical Crystallography) and addicted to first persons games. I rate Doom/Doom ][ a close third after Ultima Underworld. System Shock is my absolute number 1. Still some more info : When DEU 5.1 came out, my collegue Carl started constructing his own WAD. Gerd and I followed in his tracks. Somehow, I lost both along the road. Maybe they should have planned things a little more, just as I did. Although I didn't plan to spend so much time on this level... I've always been fascinated by the Middle Ages, so building a castle WAD was the only thing for me. I tried to give each room a meaning and succeeded for the majority of them. There are still a few 'space fillers', but I'm sure you'll recognize the throne room, the main quarters, the torture room with prison, a bathing house, kitchen, stables and of course a conference room (NO not one with a round table in it :) ). A castle is supposed to have some secret passages, so there are a few; Not as many as I wanted though. I intended to name this level something boring like CASTL_SM, but then the BBC played that great movie Excalibur again. A name change was the result... Description : I confess! I'm not a *true* DOOMer. I like the game the most at the HMP (He Must Practice ?!) level. I want to have some time to take a closer look at the enviroment. Besides, I'm into X-rays, not UV :) Therefore I spend much time aligning textures and I hope I haven't missed a spot (If you find an error, please flame my beta-testers!). On the other hand, this could mean that I exaggerated UV a little... Before you go out and hopefully play this WAD, I must tell you that there's a CyberDemon Surprise at the end (I know it's a cheap trick, flame me!), but you're given 3 options to bypass this CDS: a) Run like hell; b) Nuke him (a BFG might come in handy); and c) ... Nah! It's a secret. The evil S-word : Right. Let's not forget to mention the story of this WAD. Some warlord dared to revolt from your Doom King Romero. You and 3 more of his best Doom Masters were send to his castle to talk this matter over. Negotiations failed and you and your compagnons are about to be put away in some dark cell. This is when plan B took over. Waste the son of a B&%$* ! Question is: 'Where are your buddies?' and moreover 'Can you still trust them?' There's only one way to find out! System requirements : To fully enjoy Ultra Violent Excalibur a just above average (?) Doom machine (486DX, 8Mb RAM, VLB) is required. You REALLY need 8Mb RAM! On my 486DX2/66 with 8Mb RAM and a ISA ET4000 video card I got about 20 FPS indoors and around 14 FPS during heavy outdoors combat. For me it was just tolerable. Since the initial release of EXCALIBR.WAD my PC got a VLB boost. With my newly ET4000/W32i video card, I hardly drop below 23 FPS. Status of the Ferraris : You asked for it, so here it is :) I have three (3!) one GTO, one 512BB and one F40. All are red and on scale 1/24. (Just WHAT else did you expect from a 'poor' student ?!). In real life I settle for a red 1985 Ford Escort XR3i. Additional Credits to : id Sofware for creating DOOM; Brendon Wyber and Rapha?l Quinet for the Doom Editing Utilities; Per Allansson and Per Kofod for the GCC port of DEU; Colin Reed for his Binary Space Partitioner 1.2x - the only node-builder that could handle this WAD correctly; L. Witek ([email protected]) for his Reject utility; Jin Kim ([email protected]) for discussion about the different nodebuilders out there, beta-testing and many hints to improve playability of this WAD; My collegues Gerd Thys ([email protected]), Carl Peten ([email protected]) and Johan Van der Looy ([email protected]) for DeathMatches and beta-testing; Olivier Montanuy ([email protected]) for his DeuTex utility. Sometimes things can be so imple if you have the right program; Billy D'Augustine ([email protected]), Ken McDowell ([email protected]), Mauro 'from Bologna' ([email protected]) and Brett ([email protected]): the few people that took the time to comment on my creation and which made this WAD a (hopefully) better WAD. ============================================================================== * Play Information * Episode and Level # : E2M1 Single Player : Yes Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes Difficulty Settings : Yes New Sounds : No There are many good sound WADs out there. New Graphics : Yes Although id did a pretty good job. New Music : No Get SWMUSIC.WAD ! Demos Replaced : Nope There's absolutely no(DOOM)thing you can learn from me! * Construction * Base : Update from my own EXCALIBR.WAD; Construction time : Roughly 10 hours for the paper design; Six (6!) months for the DOS-port. I had a Windows-like hate-love relationship with DEU: More off that on the job. Editor(s) used : DEU 5.1 and DEUGCC 5.2.1, BSP 1.2X, REJECT 1.0 and DEUTEX 2.1 Statistics : You thought you've seen really BIG levels? Take a look at a few stats: 2018 Vertices to construct 2716 LineDefs with all together 4038 SideDefs. I needed those to build 643 sectors. Oh yeah, don't forget about the 618 Things. Changes in Version 1.1 : - Made it more obvious how to get the vital blue skull key by creating an ICKWALL3 swith. - Some cosmetic changes which should make the secrets a little more obvious. Just a little... - Added some more rocketlaunchers for Deathmatch. Known (?) Bugs : - It's more a feature than a bug: Because of the complexity of this WAD, don't play it with anything less than the Doom 1.4 engine. Unless of course you really like HOMs :) - Lack of speed on 'lower end' Doom machines on UV. Send enough comments/complaints and I might try again. For now I'm a little tired fooling around with Block Sound LineDefs and Deaf/Ambush Flags. - The one my beta-testers never told me about. * Copyright / Permissions * Authors MAY use this level as a base to build additional levels. Please let me know where to find the results! You MAY distribute this WAD, provided you include this file, with no modifications. You may distribute this file in any electronic format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this file intact. I sure would like to know about that CD-stuff! Finally I would love to see a full castle episode, with or without this level. * Where to get this WAD * FTP sites: ftp.cdrom.com, ftp.idsoftware.com and mirrors. World Wide Web: My homepage at http://www.uia.ac.be/u/maes/index.html Other: Sams Publishing's book: Tricks of the DOOM Programming Gurus.
Title : Excalibur 1.1 Filename : XCALIB11.WAD = EXCALIBR.WAD Version 1.1 Author : Stefan Maes Email Address : [email protected] WWW Homepage : http://www.uia.ac.be/u/maes/index.html Snail Mail : Verbiststraat 8 2920 Kalmthout Belgium Misc. Author Info : Ph.D. student at the University of Antwerp (Chemical Crystallography) and addicted to first persons games. I rate Doom/Doom ][ a close third after Ultima Underworld. System Shock is my absolute number 1. Still some more info : When DEU 5.1 came out, my collegue Carl started constructing his own WAD. Gerd and I followed in his tracks. Somehow, I lost both along the road. Maybe they should have planned things a little more, just as I did. Although I didn't plan to spend so much time on this level... I've always been fascinated by the Middle Ages, so building a castle WAD was the only thing for me. I tried to give each room a meaning and succeeded for the majority of them. There are still a few 'space fillers', but I'm sure you'll recognize the throne room, the main quarters, the torture room with prison, a bathing house, kitchen, stables and of course a conference room (NO not one with a round table in it :) ). A castle is supposed to have some secret passages, so there are a few; Not as many as I wanted though. I intended to name this level something boring like CASTL_SM, but then the BBC played that great movie Excalibur again. A name change was the result... Description : I confess! I'm not a *true* DOOMer. I like the game the most at the HMP (He Must Practice ?!) level. I want to have some time to take a closer look at the enviroment. Besides, I'm into X-rays, not UV :) Therefore I spend much time aligning textures and I hope I haven't missed a spot (If you find an error, please flame my beta-testers!). On the other hand, this could mean that I exaggerated UV a little... Before you go out and hopefully play this WAD, I must tell you that there's a CyberDemon Surprise at the end (I know it's a cheap trick, flame me!), but you're given 3 options to bypass this CDS: a) Run like hell; b) Nuke him (a BFG might come in handy); and c) ... Nah! It's a secret. The evil S-word : Right. Let's not forget to mention the story of this WAD. Some warlord dared to revolt from your Doom King Romero. You and 3 more of his best Doom Masters were send to his castle to talk this matter over. Negotiations failed and you and your compagnons are about to be put away in some dark cell. This is when plan B took over. Waste the son of a B&%$* ! Question is: 'Where are your buddies?' and moreover 'Can you still trust them?' There's only one way to find out! System requirements : To fully enjoy Ultra Violent Excalibur a just above average (?) Doom machine (486DX, 8Mb RAM, VLB) is required. You REALLY need 8Mb RAM! On my 486DX2/66 with 8Mb RAM and a ISA ET4000 video card I got about 20 FPS indoors and around 14 FPS during heavy outdoors combat. For me it was just tolerable. Since the initial release of EXCALIBR.WAD my PC got a VLB boost. With my newly ET4000/W32i video card, I hardly drop below 23 FPS. Status of the Ferraris : You asked for it, so here it is :) I have three (3!) one GTO, one 512BB and one F40. All are red and on scale 1/24. (Just WHAT else did you expect from a 'poor' student ?!). In real life I settle for a red 1985 Ford Escort XR3i. Additional Credits to : id Sofware for creating DOOM; Brendon Wyber and Rapha‰l Quinet for the Doom Editing Utilities; Per Allansson and Per Kofod for the GCC port of DEU; Colin Reed for his Binary Space Partitioner 1.2x - the only node-builder that could handle this WAD correctly; L. Witek ([email protected]) for his Reject utility; Jin Kim ([email protected]) for discussion about the different nodebuilders out there, beta-testing and many hints to improve playability of this WAD; My collegues Gerd Thys ([email protected]), Carl Peten ([email protected]) and Johan Van der Looy ([email protected]) for DeathMatches and beta-testing; Olivier Montanuy ([email protected]) for his DeuTex utility. Sometimes things can be so imple if you have the right program; Billy D'Augustine ([email protected]), Ken McDowell ([email protected]), Mauro 'from Bologna' ([email protected]) and Brett ([email protected]): the few people that took the time to comment on my creation and which made this WAD a (hopefully) better WAD. ============================================================================== * Play Information * Episode and Level # : E2M1 Single Player : Yes Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes Difficulty Settings : Yes New Sounds : No There are many good sound WADs out there. New Graphics : Yes Although id did a pretty good job. New Music : No Get SWMUSIC.WAD ! Demos Replaced : Nope There's absolutely no(DOOM)thing you can learn from me! * Construction * Base : Update from my own EXCALIBR.WAD; Construction time : Roughly 10 hours for the paper design; Six (6!) months for the DOS-port. I had a Windows-like hate-love relationship with DEU: More off that on the job. Editor(s) used : DEU 5.1 and DEUGCC 5.2.1, BSP 1.2X, REJECT 1.0 and DEUTEX 2.1 Statistics : You thought you've seen really BIG levels? Take a look at a few stats: 2018 Vertices to construct 2716 LineDefs with all together 4038 SideDefs. I needed those to build 643 sectors. Oh yeah, don't forget about the 618 Things. Changes in Version 1.1 : - Made it more obvious how to get the vital blue skull key by creating an ICKWALL3 swith. - Some cosmetic changes which should make the secrets a little more obvious. Just a little... - Added some more rocketlaunchers for Deathmatch. Known (?) Bugs : - It's more a feature than a bug: Because of the complexity of this WAD, don't play it with anything less than the Doom 1.4 engine. Unless of course you really like HOMs :) - Lack of speed on 'lower end' Doom machines on UV. Send enough comments/complaints and I might try again. For now I'm a little tired fooling around with Block Sound LineDefs and Deaf/Ambush Flags. - The one my beta-testers never told me about. * Copyright / Permissions * Authors MAY use this level as a base to build additional levels. Please let me know where to find the results! You MAY distribute this WAD, provided you include this file, with no modifications. You may distribute this file in any electronic format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this file intact. I sure would like to know about that CD-stuff! Finally I would love to see a full castle episode, with or without this level. * Where to get this WAD * FTP sites: ftp.cdrom.com, ftp.idsoftware.com and mirrors. World Wide Web: My homepage at http://www.uia.ac.be/u/maes/index.html Other: Sams Publishing's book: Tricks of the DOOM Programming Gurus.
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