I was in college at the time of release, and I remember well trying to elbow my way onto a pc in the computer lab so I could play. There were only a few PCs, as the lab was almost all Sun workstations. It wasn’t long before I went home for break after finals, and by the time I got back the game had been banned on the engineering network. Oh, nostalgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Get hold of a doom.wad<\/strong><\/em> file from “Ultimate Doom” If you don’t have one stuffed in a closet on a CD-ROM somewhere, you can get it cheap from steam or GOG:
https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2280\/DOOM_1993\/<\/a>
https:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/game\/doom_1993<\/a>
Ultimate Doom is most likely what you have from the 90s – but if you’re not sure, it’s the one with the fourth episode “Thy Flesh Consumed”.<\/li>\n\n\n\n- Download and install the ZDaemon client:
https:\/\/www.zdaemon.org\/?CMD=downloads<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Put the doom.wad file from the GOG or Steam (or CD Rom) in the home folder of Zdaemon. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Start up ZDaemon Game Launcher, create a username and password (They don’t need any other info about you than that – it’s just to identify you on the server), and find the server called Johans Dwarfy Doom<\/strong>. When it asks for a password, it’s urist<\/strong> (all lower case).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Join the game.
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The actual celebration will be Dec 10th, time TBA, but feel free to get on there and play any time. I’ll be getting on there myself whenever I can, and I’ll message the DFRoundtable discord when I do — join that from the link in the main menu above – that’s also where the voice chat will be, assuming we don’t get so many people it gets unwieldy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Download and install the ZDaemon client: