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Or simply nobody thought that could be done things like that (for example, the classic "invisible" sector bridge), before a PWAD did. Plus the game was released

Or simply nobody thought that could be done things like that (for example, the classic "invisible" sector bridge), before a PWAD did. Plus the game was released targeting to work under a 80386, so the stock maps was limited to ran at an acceptable performance on these kind of CPUs.

anthk 5y ago
Check FastDoom too :).
bombcar 5y ago
Yeah, “limits” are sometimes in hardware and sometimes conceptual. Look at the demoscene - most of what they do is designed to run on period hardware, but far surpasses anything anyone did at the time (it’s the whole point).