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Doom


By Mathew R. Ignash (mathewignash@comcast.net) - Last updated on September 13, 2002.
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  • Vital Data:

  • Created By: id Software - http://www.idsoftware.com/
  • Ported to Amiga by:
    DoomAttack - Georg Steger, 1998
  • System requirements:
    DoomAttack - A 68020 CPU, 2mb of fast RAM, AGA chip set or a CyberGFX compatable video card, Workbench 3.0, about 14mb of free hard drive space and the commercial doom wad file.
  • Systems recommended:
    DoomAttack - A high speed 68030 CPU or better and 8mb of fast RAM.
  • System Friendlyness Scale:
    DoomAttack - 1234567890


  • About The Game:

  • Synopsis: Doom is a pretty famous game, that lacked an Amiga version for many years. id software declined porting it publicly many years ago, stating that you would need a 68040 CPU and a video card just to run it at a playable speed. This was at a time when that was considered pretty much the top end of Amiga market, which was too small a market for them. This was probably for the best in the long run. If they had ported it it they probably would have just compiled the code in a weekend, and then we would have stuck with a half-rate Doom, done as an after thought. Instead in December of 1997 id released the source code for the engine used in Doom and Doom II. The result was a number of ports from various talented programmers, who competed with each other over adding new features, faster gameplay, and compatability with various hardware set-ups. Right now I use an Amiga Doom engine called DoomAttack by Georg Steger. By merely installing his executable, support files, prefs program and a rather large datafile from the MS-DOS version of Doom, I get a very professional Doom on my Amiga 1200.
  • FAQs:
    http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/docs/help/Doom_FAQ03.txt
    http://www.gamecenter.com/Underground/Faqs/Action/Doom/
    http://www.gamers.org/docs/FAQ/doomfaq/


  • Reviews:

  • Acorn Arcade: The Acorn port of Doom gets 75%. http://www.acornarcade.com/reviews/commercial/doom/
  • Amiga Games Database: A review of Amiga Doom. http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk/AGDB/DBA/Doom.html
  • Electric Playground: Victor gave the Jaguar version of Doom 9 out of 10. http://www.elecplay.com/review.html?article=393
  • Electric Playground: Victor gave the N64 version of Doom 8 out of 10. http://www.elecplay.com/review.html?article=46
  • Electric Playground: Victor gave the Playstation version of Doom 10 out of 10. http://www.elecplay.com/review.html?article=286
  • Electric Playground: Victor gave the SNES version of Doom 7.5 out of 10. http://www.elecplay.com/review.html?article=394
  • PSM Online: Doom for the Playstation got a 7.0, and includes all the levels of Ultimate Doom and Doom II. http://psx.ign.com/reviews/671.html


  • Extras:

  • Amiga Doom Webring - http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=amigadoom&list
  • Aminet files - http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find?doom
  • Cheats - http://www.3dgamers.com/3daction/00archives/doom2/cheats.txt.html
  • Doomworld - http://www.doomworld.com/
  • Doomworld FTP site - ftp://ftp.doomworld.com/ports/
  • Usenet - news:alt.games.doom
  • Yahoo's Doom link page - http://www.yahoo.com/Recreation/Games/Computer_Games/Titles/Action/3D_Games/Doom/



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