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================================================================ Title : "The Cinema of Death" (The others are just graphic and sound pwads which I put seperate if you just wanted to play with the graphics or sound alone,etc...) Filename : CINEMA.WAD Author : Jonathan Daughtrey Email Address : jld@gc.net Misc. Author Info : I am 14 years old and this is my first pwad. I got this new Gateway 2000 computer in December of 95. I live also in a small town and hope to make some more pwads, although not as big as this one. Description : This massive wad has many cool suprises, new graphics, textures,and host of great sounds and music. I used sound effects from the Star Wars Trilogy, Stardoom, and some ideas. The cross bow that replaces the BFG-9000,which we all know what it stands for,was taken from Heretic and redone to be or at least try to be similiar Chewbacca's in case you didn't notice. I also scanned some of my other favorite video games and scanned them to be theatre posters on the wall. A lot of the sounds with the exception of the players death sound which was recorded off of the Mortal Kombat 3 CD-ROM,because I love that sound!, came off of the stardoom wad. Some of the others were recorded off the Star Wars Trilogy with my Magnavox Radio\Cassette Recorder, then I used a line from the headphone jack into the line-in port on my Soundblaster PnP 16 Sound Card to get the sounds into my computer to save them as Wave files. At first I did the same thing except I tried to play the sounds off tape into the microphone, but it sounded just too damn scratchy! Then I gave up hope on this until I remembered the line in my dad's drawer. After testing it to see if it would transmit sound, and it did an excellent job, I knew I could have a whole lot better sound quality. Note that I listed every editor, hardware and even the operating systems I used, which may have been stupid but I felt a need to type and to plug the quality of Gateway 2000, Microsoft, and especially Windows 95 and DOS 7.0 because of how great they truly are. HOPE YOU ENJOY IT!!!!!!!!! Additional Credits to : all the other great wad designers and programmers that inspired me to learn how to create great wads and allowed me to use graphics and sprites such as Justin Fisher and Steve McCrea, and whoever the hell created Stardoom! I love those damn graphics and sounds! I also thank Gateway 2000, Microsoft, Sams Publishing for making a great book, "Tricks of the Doom Gurus", on how to build wads, which only costed me $15 because of a $15 discount I got for getting my card punched for the last time because of buying a $15 dollar Heretic strategy guide just to get the codes because I didn't yet have internet access, all the D!ZONE products, the Internet, George Lucas and Lucas Films for making my all time favorite movies which me and everyone else could get some great ideas from, all of the other software companies whose products I used, and most, most importantly my parents for buying my computer and all the peripherals. ================================================================ * Play Information * Episode and Level # : E1M1 Single Player : Yes Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes, although not tested. Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes, although not tested. This level's size and numerous hiding places would probably be great fraggin fun without all those damn monsters, that is if it works! Difficulty Settings : Not Implemented New Sounds : Yes New Graphics : Yes Demos Replaced : All * Construction * Base : New level from scratch and my first one at that! Build Time : Months of hard work and difficulty but in the end it was well worth it. Editor(s) used : EdMap v1.31,EdMap v1.40,DCK v2.x,BSP v1.2x, WARM v1.1,WARM v1.6,RMB v2.1,DEHACKED v3.0a, DMGRAPH v1.1,DMAUD v1.1,DeuTex v3.4,DeuSF v3.4,DeuSF v3.8,DMMUSIC v1.0a,Mus2Midi v1.0, Paint Shop Pro SHAREWARE v3.11,Creative Wave Studio,v2.0,iPhotoPlus,Microsoft Paint,Midi2Mus v2.04,Sound Recorder 32,TED v1.2,NewWadTool v1.3,Wintex v3.4,Wintex v4.2,Pkzip v2.04g, Pkunzip v2.04g,WordPad,Notepad,and most importantly Windows 95 and MS-DOS 7.0. Hardware used : Gateway 2000 P5-100 with a 15-inch Vivitron Monitor, 64-Bit STB Powergraph video card, Sound Blaster 16 PnP Sound Card, 6x Wearnes CD-ROM, a standard keyboard, a Microsoft ergonomic mouse, set of 40-watt Altec Lansing speakers, a Magnavox Radio\Casstte Recorder, the scanning was done with a 16.8 million hand-held Mustek\Twain compliant scanner, and a Gateway Telepath 28.8 Modem for surfing the Net. Known Bugs : There are no visible errors in this stage at all, except maybe a few slime trails in the big room with the Snake Steps and some rooms may be a bit slower then others because of their size. I had a few early problems with some HOM, visplanes, and map plane errors, but I think that they should be fixed. If you do run across any errors apologize, even though it isn't my fault because I used the best Node Builder,WARM v1.6,and Reject Builder, RMB v2.1, nor is it their programmers fault. System Requirements : At least a 486\DX100, 8 megabytes of ram, MS-DOS v.5.0, and Windows 3.1 which would be very slow, a Sound Blaster compatible sound card to get the experience of my Cinsound wad. For full enjoyment you should have at least an Intel Pentium processor at least 60 mhz or higher, Windows 3.11 or higher, and 16 megabytes of ram for total speed or even higher and The Ultimate Doom v.1.9. Installation : After you have unziped this file into your Doom directory, simply type, "install", and hit enter. After the installation is complete simply type, "cinema", and you will play some bad assed wads!!! Conclusion : I was forced to switch to DKC in the final steps of building my level because of its terrible memory restraints which caused it not to load up the wad. I was fortunate though because DKC was a very powerful tool, even more powerful than EdMap, except for when months of work was almost destroyed forever when it kept crashing and destroying the texture mapping in my wad, but luckily I had it set to make a backup copy in case of a tradgedy like this ever happened. I then remembered something on the H!ZONE CD called the DKC-Fix. I installed it and it did'nt entirely fix the crashing problem but it did fix the texture mapping from messing up. I found that it crashes the most when you pick the textures or flats very fast. I just wanted to point out these issues to first time wad designers. Oh, I forgot to say that the reject map build time was about 6 1/2 hours! This was because I did a perfect build. * Copyright / Permissions * Authors MAY use these pwads as a base to build additional levels, feel free to use any of my ideas, graphics, textures, or sound and music. I grant this permission because I'm not an uptight moron who thinks that there pwads are so awesome that they can't even be touched by anyone except them, besides even if someone said that you could'nt use their levels to build additional ones, how would they stop you? Well in the words of Coolio,"I guess they can't, I guess they won't, I guess they front", whatever that means. You MAY distribute this WAD and the others, provided you include this file, with no modifications. You may distribute this file in any electronic format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this file intact. All names in this template that are either copyrighted, trademarks, or are restricted are trademarks of their respected companies and nor do they endorse this project in any way. I am no way responsible for any computer, mental, or physical problems caused to you or others that uses any of these files. * Where to get this WAD * FTP sites: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames/levels BBS numbers: Not yet but I would like to or someone to upload this to Stonehenge BBS (860)684-6605 or (860)684-6607. I would but my phone bill is probably already going to be way too damn high. Other: There are no other ways to get this.