Floppy disk Doom clones
Posted by EmployeeThat6852@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 26 comments
My Dad and I were digging through some old boxes and found his stash of old floppy disks. These three Doom clones (and also Dancing Baby for Windows 95) stood out.
Thought they were interesting and figured some people would enjoy seeing them. I'll definitely keep them.
Scoth42@reddit
Were these Doom clones or Doom mods/wads?
Ornery-Practice9772@reddit
mods/wads
Complete_Entry@reddit
Are they clones or total conversions?
Ornery-Practice9772@reddit
mods
Ornery-Practice9772@reddit
i have the simpsons 1&2 DOOM .wads on emu
lots of fun
panic82@reddit
Simpsons Doom! Have so many amazing memories of that one. When watching the Simpsons on TV and I hear one of the audio clips (still to this day), it reminds me of that.
SirTwitchALot@reddit
The original mod friendly game. Doom was seminal in more ways than one
AppropriateCap8891@reddit
Actually, that would really go to Wolfenstein 3D. That came out a year before and was hugely popular with modders before Doom even came out. On my BBS at the time I had a huge archive of Wolfenstein mods.
And even Doom itself was largely just a reskin of Wolfenstein.
guigr@reddit
More difference between Doom and Wolf 3D than between Quake and all fps of the last 30 years.
rasteri@reddit
yeah nah
SkystalkerFalcon@reddit
Difference is Wolfenstein was reverse enginered and hacked. Seeing this, id Software embraced modding with doom and added a command to add mod files (PWADs)
Scoth42@reddit
Doom and Wolf3D were wildly different engines with completely different sources. A short list was Wolf 3D only supporting right angle walls, no textured floors or ceilings, no elevation changes, and much simpler lighting. Even if they were both considered 2.5d engines due to how the layout was handled they were still a generation apart.
Also I'd say ZZT was the original mod-friendly game. It had and still has huge support.
AppropriateCap8891@reddit
Yep, I had a huge archive of ZZT files and games also. If memory serves me right a lot of them were Rogue clones.
SirTwitchALot@reddit
I bought a shareware disk of Wolfenstein from a grocery store near me when it was new. Doom mods were way more common and widespread. BBS culture picked up right around the time that WADs became common and the rest was history. Wolfenstein was first, but it never reached the same level as Doom
AppropriateCap8891@reddit
No, BBS were huge for years prior to that.
impreprex@reddit
“Shareware” fucking hell I haven’t heard that word in a long time.
uid_0@reddit
Mods, not clones. My favorite was Barney Doom. All the monsters in the game were purple dinosaurs.
TheseScene@reddit
I had these exact disks (the Simpson's ones) I remember a stall at a computer market (comouter swap meets were what they were called) that I used to go to that hundreds of different doom wads on floppy disks to sell for 5 bucks each.
garth54@reddit
Someone had made a custom level (complete with custom sounds and textures) for Doom shaped as ST:TNG's Enterprise D. It was really well done.
AppropriateCap8891@reddit
But does he have Barney Doom?
creamygarlicdip@reddit
I once bought a "street fighter 2" version of wolfenstein 3d on floppy. It was terrible and infected me and my friends pc with a virus lol
jussuumguy@reddit
Very cool, love Doom Clones.
derpaturescience@reddit
Margaret Thatcher doom needs a floppy release
Gr8fulFox@reddit
I had that first "Simpsons" DOOM mod back in the 90s!
ripgoodhomer@reddit
Here is the link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/30/15/d3/3015d37c80dcd9682339e6eaf2558cae.png
EmployeeThat6852@reddit (OP)
Immaculate thank you