The Old Stuff Chronicles - Matt Dixon - Saturday Apr 28 00:01:03 2001

Room 101, authored by an individual known only as 'Sock', was conceived, created and released back in the early months of 1995. Today's feature is a prime example of re-creating DOOM in all of it's old-school glory -- here we find Romero-esque texturing gradually giving way to the stylings of Peterson's Episode 2, cunning traps and surprises and densely populated by a bestiary dominated by Knee Deep In The Dead creatures.

I recall first playing today's feature several years ago, having stumbled across it in my collection of DOOM CDs. I was immediately taken by Room 101's keen sense of atmosphere, style, and -- something uncommon for the era in which it was released -- fantastic texture alignment. Sock's impressive emulation of DOOM's original episodes earned it a spot on my hard drive, but it was Room 101's improvements to the original episodes and immense size that earned it a place in my memory.

Note: two versions of Room 101 exist...the unauthorized version presently available from cdrom.com which fixes a (minor) error in the map, and the original version that I first played back in '95. Regardless of the version you choose to play, you will enjoy the time spent in Room 101.

...and hey, kudos to Sock for the George Orwell reference.

Afterglow

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"Kat:" posted Wednesday May 02 11:56:34 2001


Back off, he's mine. Keen!

TEXTURES! 

Mattrim.

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"Re: ^_^ -_- ^_^" posted Tuesday May 01 22:16:57 2001


Hi, Katarhyne!

 

Mattrim.

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"Re: Mattrim." posted Tuesday May 01 22:16:03 2001


Kinoshkana: your sarcasm did not translate well from thought to text. My apologies for being helpful.

 

Katarhyne

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"^_^ -_- ^_^" posted Tuesday May 01 00:58:00 2001


Prower? Mattrim? Where've you two been?

* Katarhyne swats at them with a cyberdemon

I've missed you guys!
</whimper>

24B-18-22...is that the info you wanted? 

Kinoshkana

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"Mattrim.:" posted Tuesday May 01 00:30:31 2001


Yeesh.

I was making fun of the original lines. I don't know if the level actually runs on my system. I just thought it sounded funny.

Boy was I wrong.

Doom 3 canceled and replaced with glPong.

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Mattrim.

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"Re: humor in odd form" posted Monday Apr 30 23:56:07 2001


Kinoshkana: if I interpret you correctly, you are stating that the original version of Room 101 cannot be run on your system, correct? The file in question, extracted from the .ZIP archive mirrored here, operates fine on my system, on all skill levels, beneath Ultimate DOOM v1.9 and BOOM.EXE. What engine are trying to play Room 101 with? What is your system configuration? Has anything similar to this happened with maps other than Room 101? And finally, has anyone else experienced this phenomena?

Also, for your information -- the bug addressed in the unauthorized 'fix' to Room 101 on cdrom.com has nothing to do with this crashing phenomena, but rather (and I quote directly from the text file) "fixes a small but crucial bug (yellow key door opened with the red key)."

 

Kinoshkana

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"humor in odd form" posted Monday Apr 30 06:28:40 2001


"Note: two versions of Room 101 exist...the unauthorized version presently available from cdrom.com which fixes a (minor) error in the map, and the original version that crashes immediately upon startup and, even if it didn't, would crash everywhere else."

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Enjay

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"Kinoshkana" posted Sunday Apr 29 06:45:19 2001


Heh, at least you can find them so you can beat the living shit out of them. ;-)

Meek 

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"Enjay:" posted Sunday Apr 29 02:36:06 2001


Those things get annoying... they get triggered by all sorts of quiet noises, and then you get this urge to beat the living SHIT out of them...

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"prower:" posted Saturday Apr 28 17:31:01 2001


I took the editors with the most downloads. Go figure.

King Ling 

prower

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"Where" posted Saturday Apr 28 17:21:30 2001


Where is Waded on the damn poll?

 

WaveLength

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""Room 101"" posted Saturday Apr 28 13:12:25 2001


2 + 2 = 5!!!

life ain't worth living until you've found something worth dying for. 

stphrz

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"Afterglow:" posted Saturday Apr 28 12:53:43 2001


I take it you didn't like the level? I thought it was neato! =)

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me? -Captain Beefheart 

Afterglow

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""keen"" posted Saturday Apr 28 12:44:20 2001


Damm you mattrim!

TEXTURES! 

Enjay

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"Blue keys and stuff." posted Saturday Apr 28 12:26:34 2001


What is it about blue keys?

For the past I don't know how many good oldstuff and newstuff levels, I have taken ages to find the blue key.

There is nothing particularly hidden about the blue key in 101, but I walked past the corridor that takes you to it loads of times before I found it. Maybe someone could make a source port that emulates those keyrings that emit a bleep when you clap your hands to help me find the blue keys.

Anyway, I liked this map. Simple but well done architecture in an Ep1 style, blending nicely into an Ep2 style for the finish. Overall nothing too fancy but looking good and coming together as an enjoyable map. I'm sure I have played it before, but don't remember where or when. Nice to revisit though.

Meek 

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"Jon:" posted Saturday Apr 28 11:44:53 2001


No, but if you increase the flow of incoming levels, you increase the number of bad and mediocre levels, definitely.

When it was harder to make levels, the levels tended to be better, since people stayed on them longer.

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Jon

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"hweh" posted Saturday Apr 28 10:43:03 2001


oldstuff chronicles is infinitely more interesting than newstuff chronicles... but I'm not sure that represents a change in the quality of mapping from then to now...

http://jon.alkali.org/ 

NunoC

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"sock" posted Saturday Apr 28 07:04:50 2001


it's a tv program where this sock says bad words and stuff

3y3 k33| j00!!!!!! 

cocoon

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"ha!" posted Saturday Apr 28 04:02:22 2001


the coolest

owner of the record label honeyspiderthree 

Kinoshkana

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"First Post" posted Saturday Apr 28 00:58:05 2001


What kind of a name is "Sock"?!

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