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If there were magnets, they probably were rastishka
Also these we took off so they survived thru many years

Macros to silently raise or lower floors

A refrigerator repairman came right to our home and replaced the radiators and cooling system right in the hallway. He left all the stickers and magnets in place!

The source ports have their main problem that limits their FPS too much. The bsp renderer.
Helion has no that, but it also has no multiplayer, so it's incomplete. 

This gives me feel that doom source ports are very wrong. The funny side is many schizo bloggers and youtubers making writeups and videos on how genial the BSP technology is.

Gzdoom is like an universal source port but it has many holes in compatibility like lack of vanilla prng switch and actually is not backwards compatible with zdoom 2.8.1 mods cuz in 2019 it butchered some features of fragglescript during its shitup with zscript calls. Also it changed file reading behavior. It did not help with FPS anyone, and it can't cuz the renderer is a huge bottleneck in any case. Shouldn't touch things if it works.

The BSP is the main problem. And some schizo desire to touch things that aren't broken, and to bump codebase to newer compilers

And that is correct. Now let's hope someone else wants to play too.

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switchblade - 2 points

Q3. Explain in a nutshell how Doom 64 achieves its fake room-over-room effect.
switchblade got 2 points in a row and should skip this question.

Rest in peace, Bobby Prince. Thanks to you, I now create MIDI music.

Releasing my first MIDI — free to use in your projects!



► DOWNLOAD: Google Drive Archive


▌ FEATURES

Style: Middle Eastern flavor · Futuristic · Storytelling arc
Length: 4 minutes
Key: Phrygian Dominant in F
Genre: Progressive electronic


▌ THE STORY BEHIND IT

Making my first MIDI track, I wanted to do something inventive right out of the gate. This one won't fit classic Doom — but for creative projects it's exactly the right vibe. I picture it somewhere in a final battle of a megawad.

I ran into a ton of technical headaches along the way — the track has over 40 instruments that I had to elegantly swap between each other (General MIDI only supports 16 channels, after all). The main challenge was pulling off sound design and emulating real modular synthesis using nothing but MIDI editing tools, which I abused mercilessly.

The arrangement was inspired by DBP39, so it'll sit naturally in detailed maps with a Middle Eastern theme.

I work as a film composer and have been making advanced electronic music for years — and that's exactly the style I wanted to bring into MIDI format. For my usual work this is a pretty standard track; for Doom it's something new. If I keep going in this format I won't be making arrangements this complex again — they're a nightmare to adapt across different soundfonts.

Arranged in Ableton Live 12, recorded via LoopMIDI into Reaper, played back through Virtual MIDI Synth.


▌ TECHNICAL INFO & HOW TO USE

The track is timbrally and instrumentally very diverse, so perfectly balancing it across all soundfonts is technically impossible — but I did everything I could. For the original intended sound, use Timbres of Heaven.

The archive contains 2 MIDI files:
- Timbres of Heaven edition — more voices (50)
- Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth edition — fewer layers (32), for maximum compatibility

Also included — 4 rendered audio files:
- Two mastered versions (Timbres of Heaven and Microsoft GS) for best sound quality
- Two raw versions for better blending with other MIDI tracks — use these if you're worried about compatibility across soundfonts

All versions are trimmed to loop cleanly. The archive also includes the soundfonts that sound decent with this MIDI.

I strongly recommend bundling Timbres of Heaven directly into your wad.


▌ RIGHTS

You can use this track in any of your projects however you like — I'll be genuinely happy if you find a use for it. Please credit me as the author so other people can find me for collaborations.

If you want to claim it for an ambitious project, hit me up in DMs. I'm open to adapting it to your specific soundfont.

Thanks for listening! Feel free to share what the track makes you feel. I'd ask you not to be too brutal with the criticism — I'd rather not take emotional damage and lose motivation to keep working in this format.

GoG, Steam, Epic, Microsoft store

In a very rough spot in my life and I'm playing this now. Thank you guys for letting me occupy myself with these great maps

Finally gotten around to completing Episode 3 (for my YouTube channel) a fantastic reimagining of E1-E3, there's some missing textures in E3M4 & 5 but this was one of the most fun Doom Wads I've played in a long time!

Bought out? New ownership? I thought skulltag closed years ago.

Absolutely! Of which only Cyberdemon(s) are present in every Fun level including "Panic" (The Lost Levels).

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switchblade - 1 point

Q2. Which online stores offer the 2020 Doom 64 remaster for the PC?