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Doom Editing Digest Vol. 01 Nr. 098
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doom-editing-digest Sunday, 25 December 1994 Volume 01 : Number 098
Re: More regarding Heretic
Re: heretic
New Pallette in Heretic?
Corrupt Wad-file?
Re:Corrupt Wad-file?
Re: Corrupt Wad-file?
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From: Stanley Stasiak <stan@yarrow.wt.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 10:57:49 +0800 (WST)
Subject: Re: More regarding Heretic
> I can't tell if this is a bug or a feature, but the running water
> sector effects 2 of the 3 ethereal bolts in heretic. Find a section of
> fast moving water (there's some on level 3, outside, that you can't
> move through unless you are running) and shoot the bolts into the flow.
> They will acually *COME BACK TOWARDS YOU*. The don't do damage to
> yourself, though.
What? that means its windy? ;)
Stan.A
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From: Robert Forsman <thoth@cis.ufl.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1994 22:51:29 EST
Subject: Re: heretic
tom@vmark.com (Tom Rauschenbach) ,in message <9412240252.AA10515@uvmark.vmark.c
om>, wrote:
> According to Robert Forsman:
> >
> >tom@vmark.com (Tom Rauschenbach) ,in message <9412232034.AA11793@uvmark.vmar
>> k.c
> > om>, wrote:
> >
> >> Where did you hear that Heretic will has stopped ? I was going to
> >> give the beta to a non-networked friend for Christmas !! If this
> >> is true and we can't find the shareware FCS I'm screwed ! Please
> >> let me know if you find the shareware !
> >
> > I heard it from a friend and also saw several references to it on
> >rec.ibmpc.games.action.
> Yep, it just shut down. I guess my clock was slow. Damn !
Well, all you have to do is run the DATE command and change the time.
Somebody should give a byte offset to stomp NOPS onto to disable this
time-bomb. Of course, this will all be irrelevant when the "real"
release hits the "shelves".
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From: DTeeter@aol.com
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 14:51:50 -0500
Subject: New Pallette in Heretic?
I was able to export all of the flats and textures in the Heretic wad by
setting the working directory to HT_Beta in Deutex.
There's just one hitch, the colors of the extracted files are all mapped
wrong. The playpal in Heretic is10752 bytes and the Doom playpal included
with Deutex is 2853 bytes.
This color mapping problem appears in the same way when using several other
texture viewing utilities.
It appears that Heretic uses a different (and perhaps larger) color pallette
than Doom or Doom2.
I tried renaming the playpal.lmp Heretic file I got from the extraction and
using it with Deutex and Wadview, but it didn't help.
Does anybody out there know how to get any of the texture viewing utilities
to load the Heretic pallette so that the colors are mapped correctly?
dteeter@aol.com (Dan Teeter)
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From: thekid@ornews.intel.com (Brian Kidby)
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 11:58:17 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Corrupt Wad-file?
I've downloaded the Heretic Beta from three sources and the file-size was
the same from all three. However, each time I unzipped, installed, and
tried to run the game, it bombs out during init with the message:
"Corrupt Wad-file."
Is it my system (bad HD blocks? Conflict with a TSR?), or has anyone else
had this problem? Maybe something to do with the date thingy?
Happy Holidays to you all.
Brian
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The Kid My thoughts and actions are strictly my own.
thekid@ornews.intel.com Do not hold my employers responsible.
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From: Frode Handelsby <Frode.Handelsby@hrp.no>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 94 21:56:55 +0100
Subject: Re:Corrupt Wad-file?
| Date: Sat, 24 December 1994, 11:58 -0800
| From: Brian Kidby
|
| I've downloaded the Heretic Beta from three sources and the file-size was
| the same from all three. However, each time I unzipped, installed, and
| tried to run the game, it bombs out during init with the message:
| "Corrupt Wad-file."
|
| Is it my system (bad HD blocks? Conflict with a TSR?), or has anyone else
| had this problem? Maybe something to do with the date thingy?
Yes. I sat the system date on the PC to 21.11.94, and it worked again. The beta
version is not supposed to be run after friday, I guess.
|
| Happy Holidays to you all.
|
| Brian
| --
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| The Kid My thoughts and actions are strictly my own.
| thekid@ornews.intel.com Do not hold my employers responsible.
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Merry Christmas.
Frode
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From: Todd Kosloff <musculus@inlink.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 16:25:22 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: Corrupt Wad-file?
On Sat, 24 Dec 1994, Brian Kidby wrote:
> I've downloaded the Heretic Beta from three sources and the file-size was
> the same from all three. However, each time I unzipped, installed, and
> tried to run the game, it bombs out during init with the message:
> "Corrupt Wad-file."
>
> Is it my system (bad HD blocks? Conflict with a TSR?), or has anyone else
> had this problem? Maybe something to do with the date thingy?
>
> Happy Holidays to you all.
>
> Brian
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The Kid My thoughts and actions are strictly my own.
> thekid@ornews.intel.com Do not hold my employers responsible.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
the corrupt wad file is bogus
it is a timebomb
set your clock back to before friday and it will work
you can get the full shareware version now, however.
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