• lens flares (flares, flaresize, flareintensity)
  
• support for up to 28 joystick buttons and a 4-dir POV control
  
• more joystick controls (flying, strafing, inventory)
  
• help: help about ccmds and cvars, e.g. 'help listfiles'
  
• immediateuse: use an item immediately when choosing one from the inventory
  
• crosshair: choose from 6 crosshairs, freely set size and color
  
• additional console variables: lookspeed, spralign

There are also the following handful of fixes:

• hit monsters above/under you
  
• maxdl works properly
  
• psprites won't get stretched with a scaled-down status bar

If you have Hexen sitting on your hard drive or lying around on a CD, you have to try out this port! It's freaking awesome... now we just need to see a JDoom!

• Doom Millennium has an update saying that Map16 and Map21 have been completed, bringing the PC that much closer to completion. There are 2 new screenshots to go along with this news as well.

• The Deathmatch Experience has been updated with a new story all about that wonderful experience which is the deathmatch experience. I've said "experience" a lot in this update.

WAD loading menu making use of the dynamic wad loading


Multiplayer menu allowing you to start serial/modem games and (in the future) internet games


'Test framerate' option which compares your framerate during a timedemo of demo2 against the framerate of a fast computer (ie. mine)


Demo playback menu

Internet play in the future? Can someone d

• Fanatic recived the audio proof for his "Fragging Fanatical" today and is having some thoughts about the artowrk which will grace the cover of the QDOOM music CD. He also talks a little bit about QDOOM E2M2, which is apparently looking quite nice (I want to see someone say that their level is looking quite ugly).

It was six short years ago, down to the hour. I remember staying up the last 30 hours doing exhaustive testing before Jay Wilbur uploaded the shareware version of DOOM to the University of Wisconsin's FTP site. We couldn't get in -- too many people were sitting on the site, waiting for our upload. The target directory was full of bogus files with names like "when.is.it.coming" and "hurry.up.id", but finally we got the sysop to up the connect limit to 250 and we barely got in. After that upload, things changed.

I remember the crazy lockup bug we had the day before -- if DOOM sat running for too long, it would just lock up. Turned out to be a value that was being incremented by the 140-tic-per-second timer function that was wrapping around (it takes a very long time for a LONG to wrap, even at 140-tics-per-second, but this one was uninitialized so it took even less time). So, we finished it up and sent it out, just knowing everyone would have a lot of fun with it. Happy Birthday, DOOM.

Happy birthday indeed!

• id Software owns the www.doom2000.com domain name
  
• Doom references can be found within Quake 2 (a secret room with the Doom logo, and the return of the BFG) and Quake 3 Arena (the Doomguy character, obviously), meaning that Doom is still on the minds of id
  
• Kenneth Scott, recently acquired artist for id Software, has been described as a "huge Doom freak" and got one of his first breaks creating monster sprites for the commercial Doom 2 TC HACX
  
• Mentions of a possible Doom2000 at QuakeCon resulted in wild cheers and clapping from the assembled audience
  
• Xatrix Entertainment, makers of games such as Kingpin and Redneck Rampage, have been rumored to be creating a sequel to id's classic game Wolfenstein 3D -- instead of a sequel to Doom, an obviously "hotter property" -- suggesting a reason why they were denied the privelege of creating a new Doom game
  
• Tim Willits, lead level designer at id Software, made the "Raven" series of Doom 2 levels and contributed to the Doom 2 Master Levels and episode 4 of The Ultimate Doom, but has never actually gotten to help create a Doom game

On a slightly more important note, I'm decided to try a "dry run" of the comments system I'm busily adding to Doomworld. There are still some kinks in it right now -- for one thing, the server often won't update the number of comments listed underneath each news update, and it's also not on a permanent databse so anything you post might be erased in a few days. But whatever... try it out! Give me a good reason to make comments a permanent addition to Doomworld.

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Scroll_Texture_Both and TranslucentLine specials can now be used from ACS.

Fixed compiler-dependent cvar ordering during netgame arbitration.

Fixed certain polyobject movement combinations that would not stop even though they were supposed to.

Did some cleanup for Alpha processors.

I think that the second one is another way of saying that Win32 and Linux users can now play multiplayer games versus one another, since that's what Randy also goes into detail about in his news update.

2 Doom Music CDs by Bobby Prince2 CDs of Fragging FanaticalAll 4 Doom NovelsMisc. D!Zone'sMaster Levels for Doom24-5 Reaper Mini'swhatever else there is laying around here

Does that wet your whistle? Then read the Doomworld box up above and enter, or wait around for Cov to post the official page.

• Securitron has posted a screenshot and an animated GIF showing off a new monster which has been completed for episode 3 (a brand-new one too, not just a sarge head on an imp body or something too).
  
• Fanatic has been working away on QDOOM, planning out E2M3 as well as balancing the other maps for deathmatch play. Also, the "Fragging Fanatical" CDs continue their long arduous journey towards being ready to ship.
  
• The Chaos Crew is back, spreading chaos and mayhem as usual. There's the news that their in-progress WAD "Caverns of Darkness" probably won't make a '99 release date, but there are some new screenshots to peruse, not to mention a note to come back for a present on the 25th.
  
• Everybody Dies is back, which makes it the third or fourth time this webpage has been taken down and put back up. The megawad appears to be cranking along, but don't expect any "episode by episode" release structure.