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posted by chromas on Tuesday December 11 2018, @11:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the Anniversary-Spectacular-of-Spooky-Doom dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

Ready to feel ancient? The original Doom is 25 years old -- and co-creator John Romero wants to make sure you know it. He's preparing an add-on for the 1993 game, Sigil, that serves as a "spiritual successor" to the classic shooter's fourth episode ("Thy Flesh Consumed") with nine single-player story levels as well as nine multiplayer deathmatch levels. The expansion will be free if you're just looking for some nostalgia-fueled demon slaying, but you can also spend a lot of money on it if you're determined to flaunt your fandom.

[...] Both the new levels and the physical copies are expected to arrive in mid-February.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/10/john-romero-doom-sigil-expansion/

According to Paul Thurrott, there will be 9 new single players levels and 9 new death match levels released for free but you will need the original DOS game in order to play them. It's planned for mid February so comfortably misses the 25 year anniversary.

"SIGIL is the spiritual successor to the fourth episode of DOOM, and picks up where the original left off."

I'm guessing you could get a legitimate copy from Good Old Games or fire up DOSBOX if you still have a version on floppy that will actually load.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @01:00AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @01:00AM (#773218)

    DOOM ran in about 600k plus 1-2MB of XMS/EMM. Getting to 600k in DOS was fairly easy. Past 620 or so and you are in for a bit of challenge.

    These days use one of the open source ones (which he did) or DOSBox.

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday December 12 2018, @01:21AM (2 children)

    by edIII (791) on Wednesday December 12 2018, @01:21AM (#773226)

    Oh, god, those memories. Tuning your system to get enough memory for the game. Who decided that 640kb should enough forever?

    I had many different templates to boot into DOS with support for different games. Thank God for the developers of DOSBOX and our newer emulators.

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by SomeGuy on Wednesday December 12 2018, @04:07AM (1 child)

      by SomeGuy (5632) on Wednesday December 12 2018, @04:07AM (#773288)

      Who decided that 640kb should enough forever?

      IBM. They were the ones who set that maximum in their BIOS as well as set the location of their video card memory making it impossible for a true IBM PC hardware clone to reach the full 1mb addressable by the 8088/8086. The 1mb address space limit was the the fault of Intel, but keep in mind that when the 8086 was released even the ~64k accessible by most 8-bit CPUs was a lot.

      It was also partly IBM's fault for not providing a better OS in a timely manner that could use 286 or 386 memory. When they finally did release one, it was a bit too late.

      Also the market itself demanded 8088 compatible DOS applications, rather than switch to some new incompatible OS.

      Thank God for the developers of DOSBOX and our newer emulators.

      You should thank the DOSBOX folks directly. They were the ones who did the work. Not some imaginary sky penis.

      • (Score: 3, Flamebait) by edIII on Wednesday December 12 2018, @04:13AM

        by edIII (791) on Wednesday December 12 2018, @04:13AM (#773291)

        Excuse me? I prefer to worship imaginary sky vagina. Don't make assumptions.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by shortscreen on Wednesday December 12 2018, @09:42AM

    by shortscreen (2252) on Wednesday December 12 2018, @09:42AM (#773382) Journal

    Not exactly. DOOM used DOS/4G [wikipedia.org] which means 32-bit protected mode. It didn't need any XMS/EMS driver and didn't need much conventional memory as long as there was around 3MB free in total between conventional and extended.