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Needing the original Doom is par for the course for this sort of megawad project, even if it’s Romero making it. There’s a bunch of tricky licensing issues arou
by pdpi 8y ago
Needing the original Doom is par for the course for this sort of megawad project, even if it’s Romero making it. There’s a bunch of tricky licensing issues around shipping the original Doom wad that you’d need for core game resources.
- PostOnce 8y agoYeah, understandable; that's what I meant by the "let's ignore you need DOOM" part, because everything Romero made he's giving away free. So his business model is still "it's free digitally, but costs for the box set". What I wanted to avoid was people saying "oh but it's not free you have to buy DOOM", which is irrelevant to the idea at hand. Now that I think of it, locomalito did this before, http://www.locomalito.com http://www.locomalito.com -- he makes retro freeware games, and occasionally sells box sets of those for a fee.
- ido 8y agoI've looked into it & you're basically making cents on the dollar on these limited edition boxed sets due to manufacturing cost at such a small scale + shipping. It's nice for a hobby but not a good way to make a living.
- PostOnce 8y agoSure. It could always be used as a promo tool / halo product though; e.g. the press you can generate with the limited edition could move units of the non-limited one. But you're right, generally it's a hobby or just a gesture for the fans, not a business decision -- and that's cool.
- gadders 8y agoDoes "Original Doom" also include the version on Steam?
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoI hope so, I've preordered already in the hope that SIGIL runs on the original release - then I'll be playing it on my actual 486 when it arrives! Obviously I'll have to transfer the WAD over but it's set up so that Win 3.1 can see my NAS so the fact that it ships on USB media hopefully shouldn't present a problem.
- Zardoz84 8y agoInstall Zandronum or ZDoomGL, and copy the doom.wad to it. You will get a much better experience.
- gadders 8y agoGood tip, thanks.
- throwanem 8y agoYes.
- Zardoz84 8y agoToday it's very easy picking DooM from GOG or Steam, or any warez site.