The status of ZDoom 2.0.97

Post by **Enjay** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:36 am

I was one of the few lucky people that managed to get the old ZdoomGL working pretty well. Zanzan was a class piece of work.

Inuyasha_989 · Post by **Inuyasha_989** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:14 pm

Indeed, I only wish ZdoomGL had been better

Its death was necessary tho..cuz it sucked

Piezo · Post by **Piezo** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:43 pm

Wait since when did ZDoomGL die? Did timmie make an announcement on mancubus.net or something?

Galaxy_Stranger · Post by **Galaxy_Stranger** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:28 pm

No, they're talking about the original ZDoomGL project.

Post by **NiGHTMARE** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:40 pm

The "new" ZDoomGL and the "old" ZDoomGL are one and the same. The port simply changed authors.

Scuba Steve · Post by **Scuba Steve** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:53 pm

Are you sure about that?

Galaxy_Stranger · Post by **Galaxy_Stranger** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:53 pm

No, Timmie started from scratch. All the code is new.

sirjuddington · Post by **sirjuddington** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:01 pm

And now he's starting from scratch again

Galaxy_Stranger · Post by **Galaxy_Stranger** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:04 pm

Yup, I saw that. I wonder if he'll have a new release by next summer?

Post by **Enjay** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:14 am

Galaxy_Stranger wrote:No, Timmie started from scratch. All the code is new.

That's how I remember it. I'm prepared to be corrected on this, but as I remember it, the original ZdoomGL by Kokak (or Kodak if you are Demon/Daemon Hunter) was based on Zdoom 1.22. The project basically stopped, so timmie's work became the effective and logical continuation/successor of the name and project. However, timmie started by basing his work off a newer Zdoom (one of the later 1.23 betas I think) and for that reason, and possibly others, a basic ground-up re-write was required. Which, of course, would explain why some of the features found in the original ZdoomGL weren't in the later versions and why some still aren't.

Galaxy_Stranger · Post by **Galaxy_Stranger** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:12 am

Exactly - http://zdoomgl.mancubus.net/about.html

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:12 am

You know, Randy had better say something soon cause everyone is flocking to GZDoom. Randy might lose a good portion of his worshipers due to the fact graf is constantly giving us new stuff.

If the bugs get worked out of GZDoom, I reckon that many people won't even bother with ZDoom 2.1.0 unless it has OGL and 3D floors.

Sorry Randy but you are losing power due to your lack of progress updates...

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:23 pm

The important question is: How dead is ZDoom at the moment?

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:32 pm

Well the community is actually on zdoom.org so I doubt we'll be leaving any time soon. And also I refuse to play Graf's zdoom until that one little nitpick bug is fixed.

Wasted Youth · Post by **Wasted Youth** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:33 pm

Why not just join forces? Two heads are better than one...
Could be like, you work on this while I work on this and we will meet in the middle.