Doom Editing Digest Vol. 01 Nr. 288

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doom-editing-digest         Monday, 22 May 1995        Volume 01 : Number 288 

Distinguishing WADs 
Dwango (off topic) 

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From: jeffj@mcs.com 
Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 22:19:14 -0500 
Subject: Distinguishing WADs 

    OK, this is getting a little sickening.   I think most of you will 
agree.  There's too many WADS that you cannot tell what they are. 

    Here's the proposal;  The WAD file will allow you to add another  
DIRECTORY entry, call it .... "!!GAME!!", for ex.   Now, because the 
id engine will do nothing with this unless it has a reference point, 
Ie, being used as a tile, graphic, etc...  We are safe to put a 
number in the normal SIZE field of the DIR record to tell what the 
WAD was meant for (DOOM/DOOM2/HERETIC/etc...)   

1 = DOOM, 2 = DOOM2, etc etc...   0(Zero) being unknown... 

I will be implementing this in a new piece of code I am working on. 
This code will add this entry for us, so that other authors can 
use it to distinguish a WAD more easily...   

Any questions, answers, ideas, etc???  I'd like feedback... 

JeffJ@mcs.com     Village Information Systems 

 

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From: Josh LaGrew <lagrewj@sunny.health.state.mn.us> 
Date: Sun, 21 May 95 15:50:25 CDT 
Subject: Dwango (off topic) 

Hello, i know this is a little off the topic but does anyone know the number 
to the DWANGO BBS or know where i can get DWANGO v2.01 because the online  
Download syystem doesn't work for me. Thanks 

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