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Title:	DOOM for Windows --> WinDOOM Build 001
Filename:	historic/wdoom.zip
Size:	316.64 KB
Date:	02/03/06
Author:	id Software, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation
Description:	It is an old Beta version of Microsofts DooM version. It works with the IWADs of DooM 1.2, 1.666, 1.9 and also Ultimate DooM. But you can't access the levels of the fourth episode in Ultimate doom. It does not work with the shareware version of DooM, not with DooM2, and also not with the Final DooM IWADS. I have verified, that the -file and the -warp parameter work. Maybe there are also others. The 'Display' -menue of the running WINDOOM.EXE makes you able to display a cool window with benchmark infos.
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Rating:	(8 votes)

Download mirrors:

/idgames protocol:

idgames://14160

Reviews:

Dragonsbrethren	Early (probably the first two) builds of the official port of Doom to Windows. This has functional levels, but nothing else. The game can render at 640x400, which would've been a huge deal at the time. Sprites with partial invisibility are rendered hilariously wrong.	x
Anonymous	Appears to be a very early build of what eventually became Doom95. Mostly interesting for collectors.	x

View wdoom.txt

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Review                  : This is for nostalgia freaks, historically 
                          interested people and source code hackers, who 
                          look out for some inspiration.
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Primary purpose         : Historical reasons.
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Title                   : DOOM for Windows --> WinDOOM Build 001
Filename                : WINDOOM.EXE WINDOOM-.EXE
Release date            : 1994
Author                  : id Software, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation
Email Address           : -

Description             : It is an old Beta version of Microsofts DooM 
                          version. It works with the IWADs of DooM 1.2, 
                          1.666, 1.9 and also Ultimate DooM. But you can't 
                          access the levels of the fourth episode in 
                          Ultimate doom. It does not work with the 
                          shareware version of DooM, not with DooM2,
                          and also not with the Final DooM IWADS.
                          I have verified, that the -file and the -warp
                          parameter work. Maybe there are also others.
                          The 'Display' -menue of the running WINDOOM.EXE 
                          makes you able to display a cool window with 
                          benchmark infos.

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* What is included *

Files Included          :

20.05.1994  19:19                  641 DEFAULT.CFG
18.11.1994  13:14                2.027 README.TXT
08.06.1994  03:43            2.097.152 WINDOOM-.EXE
10.10.1994  12:39                  641 WINDOOM.CFG
14.06.1994  13:12              325.120 WINDOOM.EXE
04.05.1994  01:48               14.336 WING32.DLL

[Note by the uploader:  I discovered the above listed files on an old 
doom-level-cd, called '1001 nights of DooM', within a file with the name 
WDOOM.ZIP. All these files have been also distributed in the zip files 
WINDM1.ZIP and WINDM2.ZIP. In those two zips was README.TXT not included.
It was obviously later added by an unknown person. WINDOOM.CFG in 
WINDM1.ZIP has another timestamp than that in WDOOM.ZIP. For the 
completists amoung you, that file is included here in WINDOOM_cfg.zip.]

Other files required    : A DooM IWAD.

* Play Information *

Game                    : DOOM

* Additional notes *
                          
- The README.TXT talks about WIN32S. That's an upgrade by Microsoft to make 
  Win3.x able to run 32bit programs. You find it with any search-engine in 
  the WWW as win32s.zip. If your OS is WIN9x, NT or better, you don't need 
  this.
  
- The officially reased version of WinDOOM can be downloaded from this 
  location:
  idstuff/doom/win95/doom95.zip
  from the /idgames -ftp-archives (see list of mirrors below).
  It comes with the shareware IWAD, but works also with Registered DooM,
  Ultimate DooM, DooM2 and Final DooM.

* Copyright / Permissions *

[The above is displayed, when you select the 'About' option 
from the 'File' menue of the running program.]

* Where to get the file that this text file describes *

The mirrors of the /idgames -ftp-archives:
           ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pc/msdos/games/idgames/
           http://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/idgames/
           http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames/
           ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/idgames/
           http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/idgames/
           ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/games/idgames/
           http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/games/idgames/
           ftp://ftp.mancubus.net/pub/idgames/
           http://ftp.mancubus.net/pub/idgames/
           http://youfailit.net/pub/idgames/
           http://ftp.fdn.fr/games/idgames/
           ftp://ftp.clinet.fi/pub/mirrors/archives.3dgamers.com/idgames/
           ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/games/idgames/
           ftp://ftp.netc.pt/pub/idgames/
           http://ftp.netc.pt/pub/idgames/
           http://crydee.sai.msu.ru/ftproot/pub/rec/games/idgames/

The upload-server of the /idgames-archives is:
           ftp://archives.3dgamers.com/pub/idgames/
           But please use the above listed mirrors for your downloads.

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Submitted to the /idgames-ftp-archives by FunDuke --> funduke@hotmail.com
The review at the beginning of this template has been written by FunDuke.

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