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- The Madness of Mergatroid
- All new episode for the registered version of DOOM
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- E-mail: Sean.Birkel@imagebbs.com
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- Files included in the zip
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- FILE_ID.DIZ
- MADNESS.WAD
- MADNESS.TXT
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- Episode Info
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- Well, this is a very impressive episode including 9 _excellent_
- levels. All the levels in this episode were created by myself, excluding
- e1m5, which was designed by a friend. We feel that any DOOM fanatic will
- enjoy this episode and will be completely impressed by the work put into it.
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- Most levels on the Internet suck. It's a fact, but these 9 levels do
- not suck. id Software, if they ever saw this, would most likely want to know
- where the two of us were when they were designing the original DOOM levels.
- It's taken roughly a year to design the levels, in fact...I never planned to
- have any nice levels...much less a whole episode. It seems that after I
- figured out how to use DEU that level making just sorda seemed fun, so I
- designed levels like mad. ...but, I am a perfectionist (in most respects) and
- therefore I insisted that the levels I designed were no less greater than
- those in the actual game. I felt that if they could make complex levels, then
- so can I...and I did :) Most of the levels in here have been zipped and
- distributed via local BBS, but even those were completely checked and re-
- checked for bugs/parts I found to be lacking "id" quality. So, what you have
- here is pure DOOM art. ...not to mention my last DOOM work that will ever be.
- I am _tired_ of making levels. My creativity is draining (I also want to
- maintain a life :), etc., so I have decided to stop while I'm ahead.
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- So, play this all the way through...it is arranged as the original
- DOOM, smaller/easier levels first which work up in size/difficulty. You will
- see the quality, and you may also wonder how I kept my sanity...so, have a
- blast!
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- Miscallany
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- level # Original distribution
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- E1M1 #1GASPRA.ZIP
- E1M2 HANGAR18.ZIP or 18HANGAR.ZIP
- E1M3 #1IMPALE.ZIP
- E1M4 #1TRITON.ZIP - unreleased
- E1M5 CHARON.ZIP
- E1M6 SHADOWS2.ZIP or 2SHADOWS.ZIP
- E1M7 #1TITAN.ZIP
- E1M8 unreleased; made special for episode
- E1M9 #1CREEP.ZIP - unreleased
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- - The editor of choice has been DEU521GC, until I found a DEU port
- dubbed DETH, which is even better :) E1M5 was made with the
- shareware version of DEEP. BSP1.2x was used for nodes on everything
- except E1M3 and E1M5. BSP1.2x has a bug and wouldn't build E1M3,
- so it was nodes built with DEEPBSP. Obviously E1M5 was done with
- DEEPBSP. My levels were all done on an Am486DX2 80 with 5Mb of
- RAM, E1M5 was done on a 386DX 40 with 4Mb without a math-co (yuck)!!
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- E1M5 was designed by Ben Gates of Hermon, Me and all others by Sean Birkel of
- Bangor, Me. ...summer's almost over <cry, sob>. Register DOOM if you haven't
- already, the guys at id deserve the money for making the greatest game ever!
- ...I can't wait till Quake is released...I saw the preview gifs...and, wow!!
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- Other stuff
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- Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Jimi Hendrix, and Cringe (kick-ass local
- band) have been the music of choice to help us through the long hours of
- level making. ...look for Cringe in the near future, they've got the
- potential for something great...the guitarist rules!
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- Oh, yeah...
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- I might as well tell you the story behind the title, "The Madness of
- Mergatroid." I had this wacky science teacher a few years back and he's
- become something of a legend around here...I can just picture him saying
- something corny like, "heavens to mergatroid."
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- BYE!
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- I'm freeeeeee!!!!!!!!! My DOOM levels are DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- No more levels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Enjoy!!
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