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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.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday December 12 2018, @01:21AM (2 children)
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.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 3, Informative) by SomeGuy on Wednesday December 12 2018, @04:07AM (1 child)
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.
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
Excuse me? I prefer to worship imaginary sky vagina. Don't make assumptions.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.