I can't believe the Doom scene is still strong...

[Melvinflynt]

When I abandoned my ol wads back in 2000 I didn't think ppl wud still be into the original Doom and I don't think it's going to die out anytime soon. The only reason I got into PCs was to play Wolf 3-D n Doom. I remember being so excited about Doom 2 coming out that I counted down the days. I also remember my brother driving me back to the house and I was so amazed at the box art of the game. I believe I was 11 or 12 at that time hehe. Anyone else remember when they first got Doom?

[Cutmanmike]

I first got Doom on the playstation and I can't even begin to explain how hooked I was. I even had dreams about my own levels and when I heard that it was possible with the pc version I begged my dad for one. Two years later I get one and I begin to figure out how. It took me a while after that but I finally stumbled upon ZDoom which I wanted for working dehacked files, and then I found NJTRAIN.... my life was not the same!

[Melvinflynt]

First time I ever edited was with this ancient version of DEEP and DEEPBSP or something like that lmao. I remember I couldn't play video games on the weedays so on Friday i'd wake up at 4 AM to play Doom until 7:30 AM when I had to go to school. That's how obsessed I was lol.

[SMG M7]

Hm...

I was about five or six when I first got Doom from my dad. Doom95 on a pretty decent computer for the time. I beat it after about a year. I always would use the keyboard, I remember, and I got so excited after finishing it.

[Shadelight]

I first started playing Doom like when I was 3, 2 or something and me and my dad found WADED and messed around with it then in 2005 I found DB and ZDoom and the first ZDoom wad I played was A Warm Place and I was blown away by it.

[SilentRage]

I guess the year Doom came out.

I had the Doom Companion CD-ROM, and it had the demo and a bunch of utills and demos and crap on it.

I remember owning a "really powerful" 486 DX4 100, back then.

I remember the Baron of Hells seemed allot taller back then...

[Melvinflynt]

Actually my dad's computer could only run Wolf 3-D. It only had 8 MB of ram and Doom requires 16 MB of ram if my memory serves me correctly. I played the shareware version at my brother's girlfriends house. Her dad had a fancy computer and while I was playing I had two little kids watching me and freaking out.

[Unknown_Assassin]

I first watched my cousin play DOOM (SNES version) when I was 3-4. I got hooked into the game pretty quickly. Then, after watching my cousin play constantly throughout a year, I started playing when I was 5-6. Years later, my cousin's dad brought my cousin Doom 64. The game was awesome to watch and play. Finally, when I was in my teens, my cousin and I were playing Doom, the computer game, and we started downloading wads to play. My cousin eventually thought it was stupid, and gave me the game to install on my computer.

[Virtue]

I remember my dad getting the sharewhere when it first came out, Doom V1.2, I was about 7-8 at the time, and he played through it and sometimes let my have a go on his 'state of the art (DX-2 66mhz lol)' PC, I was hooked!

I got my first PC back in 1996 with windows 3.11 (from my dad, he used to work in the PC industry), it was a DX2 66 as well, which was soon upgraded to a 133mhz when they came out, I was content with Doom, Doom2 and Descent Editing wise, I first started doing sprite edit wads, then i got into dehacked a few years later, non of which have been released, then i found the power that is Zdoom about a year ago. Ive tried level editing, I really want to get into it properly

[TheDarkArchon]

Actually my dad's computer could only run Wolf 3-D. It only had 8 MB of ram and Doom requires 16 MB of ram if my memory serves me correctly.

Uh, Doom's absolute minimum was 4 Mb RAM. 8 should've run it fine. 16 was only minimum for Quake 2

[HotWax]

Actually my dad's computer could only run Wolf 3-D. It only had 8 MB of ram and Doom requires 16 MB of ram if my memory serves me correctly.

This is incorrect, as I first played it on a 486 SX2/50MHz with 4 MB of RAM.

[Edit]Doh! TDA beat me to it.

[jallamann]

IIRC, the absolute minimum was a 386 at 33MHz and 4 MB RAM.
Because I can clearly remembering playing the shareware version on my dad's computer which had a those specifications except it was a 486 SX...

And Wolf3d's minmum requirements was like 20 MHz and 640 kB?

[HotWax]

Doom's requirements: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_%28video_game%29
Wolf 3D's requirements: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D

(Look at the bottom of the info box at right)

[leileilol]

Quake editing scene is dwindling though, part of that was the closure of idgames2/ incoming :/

[Matt]

IIRC, the absolute minimum was a 386 at 33MHz and 4 MB RAM.

Ah, the "good" old days, when I had to reboot the computer, wait 20 seconds to load the game, and play at 320x200 with the minimum sized view to get those framerate dots to a minimum... godmoding through my one-room-500-imps maps that would make Glassyman look like Torm in comparison because I couldn't join two sectors without a file corrupting.

...y'know, I've never been quite so glad for ZDoom as I am now.

(First time I ever got Doom: A buddy of mine installed it on my machine back in the fifth grade. Couldn't get past the first level of anything because we only had keyboard (no mouse driver on the reboot) and didn't know about the screenblocks so we were playing at about 8-15 fps. Buddy came back the next week with the cheat codes and I'd basically never played without godmode until I started trying sourceports a decade later. Even now when I can see what I'm doing without lagging too much to do it I still can't play worth beans using the vanilla Doom controls.

Fun fact: Doom introduced me to Nirvana.)