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About
The Wolf3D
Dome
The Wolfenstein
3-D Dome hasn't
always been
like this.
Before this,
there were 2
separate sites;
Mr. Lowe's
Homepage and
Parafriction's
Coding
Homepage. Mr.
Lowe's
homepage, the
biggest of the
two, was a
large add-ons
archive for
Wolfenstein
maintained by
Brian. The main
content comes
from that site.
Started in
1999, the site
soon grew out
to the
most-visited
Wolfenstein
site on the
web.
Parafriction's
Coding Homepage
had various
tutorials for
the Wolfenstein
source code.
This site was
started in Fall
2000, and grew
out to be the
first Source
Code Homepage
for Wolfenstein
(not counting
Brandon's
Source Code
Help page which
was just a
helper on the
setup of the
code). Kept
alive by
constant
redesigns, this
site got
visited heavily
in the last
period of its
existence.It
was back in
February 2001
that
Parafriction
and Brian
started talking
about a new
website. At
first we were
going to use a
combination of
'Mr. Lowe's
Wolf 3D Page'
and
Parafriction's
'Source Code
Page'. At that
time it wasn't
to be called
'The Dome', but
'High
Command'.After
various e-mails
and telephone
conversations,
the idea arose
to have one
large
Wolfenstein
site. The ideas
for it were
quite clear in
our mind; it's
just that we
didn't have the
time. A few
months and
several title
page designs
later we both
decided that
we'd like
something more
professional
and by June
'The Dome' was
born. This
first version
had a dark red
background and
was still
mostly made up
of material
from our
original sites.
Later on, the
red background
became blue and
many more
sections were
added.
Parafriction
also added many
new effects,
including
'Flash'. And
although some
of the pages
still had
material from
our existing
sites, most of
the content was
by now totally
original.
During the last
few months
there's been a
lot of fine
tuning done by
both
Parafriction
and I. It's
been a long
time coming,
but now 'The
Dome' is
finally here.
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To
all colleagues
who helped us
stay in the
game and those
who kept on
believing in
us. The
founders of the
Wolfenstein
world [ID
Software],
who helped us
all to enjoy
computing in a
different
fashion. We
know that you
are now
exploring new
paths and we
hope that you
may find what
you are
searching for.
Our families,
friends and
foes for giving
us the strength
to continue
where others
gave up. All
those people
who play
Wolfenstein
without shame
and for all the
laughter,
congratulations,
constructive
comments etc.
All those
buyers of
Wolfenstein/Spear
of Destiny -
the companies
out there need
you ofcourse to
survive. Even
if you have
never visited a
forum or signed
a guestbook ,
you ARE a very
important part
of our
existence,
please always
remember that!
Big up .... to
all of you.
Brian Lowe
&
Parafriction
Wolfenstein 3D
Dome Management
Brian
Lowe
and
Parafriction
Maintainers of
the Wolfenstein
3-D
Dome
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