20 years from now?

wildweasel · Post by **wildweasel** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 6:26 pm

I seem to recall my first version of ZDoom was 1.22, downloaded from (of all places) FilePlanet. It took me a bit to figure out why it wouldn't start, until I made the admittedly-obvious decision to try extracting it directly into my DOS Doom 2 folder.

Post by **randi** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 7:32 pm

Enjay wrote:it crashed when I got to the end of the first map that I played.

And that didn't put you off of it forever?

DaMan · Post by **DaMan** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 3:53 am

This was during the Win9x era. Stuff crashing was the norm. I don't think I made it through one all nighter of Zdeamon .9 on ME without it crashing.

Post by **Nash** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 4:03 am

Man oh man, the memories! I downloaded ZDoom when I was like 16 or 17 or something like that and I found it when I got frustrated with Doom Legacy. ZDoom was the bomb; Quake 2-like particles, console, transparency, mouselook... the ability to play in 1024 x 768 (!!! for some reason Legacy just won't work when I switch resolutions). Then I found Notgod and I tried to make my first map with ZETH and it was crashing ZDoom horribly. :D Enjay saved the day when he told me that I have to build nodes first before my map would even run! :D

ZDoom projects like NJ's train, Kurt Kesler's WAD and Tommy Fatal's Half-Life-like WAD (I forgot the name) completely blew my mind back in the day. It made me really want to learn how to mod. Here I am today!

Post by **Enjay** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 12:34 pm

randi wrote:And that didn't put you off of it forever?

It should have. I mean, it was a pretty repeatable crash. So I went back to Legacy and BOOM for a while but I kept an eye on ZDoom because there were a number of things about it that I liked. As I recall, you fixed the crash pretty quickly anyway and then there was no looking back.

I also get very nostalgic for the old days on the notgod forum.

Post by **Kappes Buur** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:05 pm

Enjay wrote: I also get very nostalgic for the old days on the notgod forum.

phorum

I often wonder how many of the old mappers are still visiting here.

Post by **Enjay** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:32 pm

Kappes Buur wrote:phorum

Indeed, my bad.

I *think* this is the last archive that The Wayback Machine has for the notgod phorum before the ZDoom section was deleted.

http://web.archive.org/web/200206091552 ... ex.php?f=2

I forgot that I used my real name on the phorum.

Post by **Caligari87** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:33 pm

Heh, I was just checking that out. Never visited the old phorums myself. I think I joined here just about a year after everyone moved over.

Post by **Enjay** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:42 pm

Ahhh, good times:

The Old Phorum wrote:Questionns

Post by **NeuralStunner** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 4:44 pm

DaMan wrote:This was during the Win9x era. Stuff crashing was the norm.

Really? 98SE was one of the most stable Windows versions I ever used.

Post by **randi** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 5:11 pm

Kappes Buur wrote:phorum

Before there was Phorum, there was Discus. Anybody else remember that?

Post by **Enjay** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 5:51 pm

Maybe, but I do remember the last time that you asked.

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f= ... 53#p231453

Enjay wrote:
randy wrote:Remember the phorum days?
Fondly, yes. (wipes away a tear)

randy wrote:Who here remembers when the ZDoom forums were running off of Discus?
I *think* I do, but I wasn't an active contributor then. I think I became more involved with the forums, and actually started posting when Zdoom was at version 1.17c (maybe 1.14, but I think 1.17c) although I'm pretty sure the first version I DLd and tried to use was 1.11. How would the dates of "Discuss" vs "Phorum" relate to whatever was the current version of Zdoom at the time?

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 7:33 pm

NeuralStunner wrote:
DaMan wrote:This was during the Win9x era. Stuff crashing was the norm.
Really? 98SE was one of the most stable Windows versions I ever used.

I still remember with little fondness when we "upgraded" my mother's 98SE machine to XP after Firefox stopped supporting it (in the sense that it wouldn't even let you browse).

The problems never stopped.

Post by **randi** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 8:49 pm

Enjay wrote:the last time that you asked.

Oh god, I'm repeating myself!

Hellsmith1 · Post by **Hellsmith1** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 12:56 am

For me I've always wanted to come up with some new inventions 20 years from now. I did came up with an cool idea of an making a donut pan its just like a cupcake pan but it had donut shaped patterns on this was 5 years ago but at that time nobody wanted to help me do this invention and I stopped and that was a big mistake because you know why?

4 years later in 2014
http://i.imgur.com/l4b8Zhy.jpg?1[/img]

When I saw this it just broke me into.
It just goes to show you how cool it was to see my idea on a shelf but somebody had the same idea & beat me to it.

What about you? Did you have any cool idea's or inventions that you wanted to make?

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