R-comp have released their official conversion of iD software's Doom. The game retails at £35 and includes 3 CD-ROMs, Ultimate Doom, Doom 2 and Doom 2 master levels. Resolutions up to 1024 by 768 are supported with even larger ones possible on the forthcoming Risc PC 2. The game has been dubbed by its authors as 'The best version of Doom on any platform' but we'll have to wait and see if it lives up to this!!

Pre-placed orders are being dispatched on Monday, as soon as there's copies available, you'll see the review here! Your news editor is just about to order his copy now...

Network/internet Multiplay Support:

This area of the Doom port will interest many internet game-payers because there simply aren't that many acorn games that support internet multiplayer modes (yet!).

R-Comp commented on multiplayer modes:

So it looks like it will be a while yet before we can thrash our local PC-owning friends but any acorn users in Leicester with Diamond Cable connections had better watch out!! (we get free phone calls to each other after 6pm you see!)

Doom Screenshots and Opinion (13/2/98)

Richard Goodwin, Argonet's webmaster has kindly agreed to put a few choice words together about the new Acorn doom conversion:

"Okay, on a StrongARM RiscPC it plays like a dream - even on the desktop! Very smooth, very good looking. On my mk1 RiscPC with ARM7 and Mozart 16bit sound card it can get a little jerky when on full screen, high detail and there's a lot happening, but not enough to make the game unplayable. Certainly an improvement on the illegal copy ;)

Plus there's a nice desktop front end which makes using alternative WAD files a breeze. And you can drop out of the monotasking mode and go back to the desktop and the game keep playing!"

There's also some screenshots:

Pe-po Mr Monster!	ha ha ha haa!
Doom in the desktop	.WAD management (extra levels)