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JAN -
FEB 2003
FEBRUARY 2003
Feb 25:
Genocide Prototypes
Zach Higgins next
TC will now be called 'Genocide' and he's sent some
enemy prototypes of what are likely to be used. The first is
shown below.
There are several more
here.
Wolfenstein
Cabin News
Ryan de Haast tells me
his Wolfenstein
Cabin site will be
updated. There'll be new downloads, a few new pages and
maybe some awards to other people. Ryan's upcoming TC
'Double Trouble' is 70% done, but there's no release date
yet.
Feb 24:
Enemy Pics
JJ has sent me pics of
several enemies. You can see them here.
Feb 22:
New Alien Website
This website is by 'The
Alien Fan' and has info on the upcoming TC
'Alien: Colonial Marines' being made by himself and Wes
Desjardins. You can download two trailers for the Colonial
Marines TC and you can also learn more about what is going
on in the game. It's at Alien
Website.
Feb 21:
WolfenAliens Website
Wes Desjardins has a new
website called WolfenAliens.
News and downloads of all his TC's are there. Wes is
currently working on a new project called 'Operation:
Aliens'. There'll be 6 weapons (rod,double pistols, M41a
pulse rifle, chaingun, rocket launcher and M240
Flamethrower). Also, there'll be 20 seamless levels and new
music.
Feb 18:
Projekt Vertilgung Update
Here's a message from
James Ingham regarding 'Projekt Vertilgung' :
"Zach
released PV and said there won't be a phase II. The version
he released also had a few bugs in. I'm going to finish the
project while he works on others...
Firstly I'm
currently (in my spare time) making Projekt Vertilgung V1.1
which is basically the same but a few new features in the
levels/bugs fixed/secret levels go to the right place/etc...
maybe new music and I might change the graphics for the
miniguns cause I dont like the ones at the
moment.
There will
also be in the download a new manual in html format which I
think is quite good (I'm 50% done on it). I will also update
the readme in the game and I might finish the .bat file
which was included but I don't think stories and items in
that are necessary. I will send some screen shots in soon
and tell you about new
updates..."
Thanks James for the above
info, good to hear from you again.
JJStein:
Resurrection Pics
JJ has sent me 3 pics.
The first is a Desktop Theme and the last 2 are from his
upcoming TC 'JJStein: Resurrection'. They may take a while
to load as they're larger than the one shown below. You can
see them here.
Feb 17:
Battlestein 3D Update
Battlestein 3D will be
not released until April 1 or later, but meanwhile there are
a set of pics that John Burnett has sent me. You can see
them here.
Area 51
Beta Released
Area 51 beta version has
been released on Luke Strauman's website at:
http://boytoy31.tripod.com/.
There are three levels to go in the final version. Luke is
hoping it'll be released next week.
Feb 16:
Den Of Evil Released
DTrade has released 'Den
Of Evil'. There are 11 levels, Spear graphics, plus lots of
sounds and title screen changes. It's well designed, but
difficult to beat. If you like lots of dungeons and
pushwalls then you'll enjoy this. Click
here for the
download.
Dome
Award - February 2003
This month's award goes
to Wolf Skevos-Jones for his excellent 'Project Eisenritter'
TC. As this is the second time Wolf has won this award, a
special version has been issued. Due to the Dome revamp, the
awards have got a little behind. Later add-ons will be
considered early March.
Wolfen-terror
Released
Matte Software has
released 'Wolfen-terror'. There are 5 new levels and lots of
graphics changes. Some come from Blake Stone/Spear etc but
many are new. There are also many sourcecode changes, new
sounds/music, helpart and endart. The new title screen is
shown below. It all blends well together. This is the first
part of what will be a 3 episode set. Click
here for the
download.
Feb
13:The Golden Episodes Released
Here's a message from
Ariel
Castañares concerning his latest add-on
release:
"Greetings
to you all, people from the community, keepers of the wolfy
flame. Today I am releasing 'Wolfenstein 3-D - The Golden
Episodes', an add-on which I worked on during a long time.
Its development did consume a very big part of my spare
time, but it took a lot of other people's too, who directly
contributed in the making of the game. The set as it is now
would have never been possible if it hadn't been for them,
but also for others who indirectly contributed, by letting
me use their own add-ons' work inside my game.
These people
know who I am talking about, but for those of you who
haven't been following my set's development, there is a
credits section inside the game where you can find out who
these great wolfers are.
I've had a
lot of fun while making this add-on. I really hope you all
have fun too while playing it. It is all yours. And please,
don't you doubt for a second and write me an e-mail if you
feel like giving me your opinion on the game, asking
something, or whatever; I'll be happy to read anything
concerning the set. My current e-mail address is
spaceraker@hotmail.com.
Nothing left
to say, thanks a lot for reading up to here. I leave you now
to Brian's comment. Take care!
Norberto
Ariel Castañares."
Thanks Ariel for the
message. 'The Golden Episodes' has 60 well designed levels
with lots of cool graphics and sounds changes. There are
many source code changes too and I particularly like the
text messages at the start of each episode. A lot of effort
has been put into this set. You can download it
here.
Colonial
Marines: Trailer Released
Wes Desjardins has sent
me a preview trailer of 'Colonial Marines'. As mentioned
previously Wes has teamed up with The Alien Fan to help with
this upcoming TC. You can download the trailer
here.
Feb
12:War Zone Project 4: High Stakes Released
DTrade has now sent me
War
Zone Project 4: High Stakes.
There are nine good levels. It's fast moving with plenty of
action and a lot of pushwalls!
Feb
10:War Zone Project 4: High Stakes Pic
DTrade's next project
will be 'War
Zone Project 4: High
Stakes'. Here's a pic
from it he sent me.
Phoenix
Rising Cancelled
Wes Desjardins has
cancelled his 'Phoenix Rising' project and will now be
working with The Alien Fan on his 'Colonial Marines' TC. Wes
will start a new TC in June.
Feb
8:Castle Totenhammer Pics
Here's a pic from Joe
Robinson's upcoming TC 'Castle Totenhammer'.
There are several more
here.
Feb
6:Best Of BJ Info/Pics
Daniel (dugtrio17) has
sent me details of his upcoming TC, which will probably be
called 'Best Of BJ':
"It
features 9 weapons, tons of new enemies, an armor feature
(not in the screen shots), a feature where you can press M
and use a portable medkit (holding up to 10 at a time) to
get 5 health, a pickup silencer, breakable objects,
exploding barrels, and a feature soon to be implemented
where medics revive dead enemies... Not to mention a neat
surprise that happens occasionally with mutants... mum's the
word on that one :)... It will be episode based, with the
player never having all 9 weapons at once.
The weapons
are: (1-4 same), 5 is a silent sniper rifle and will be
story-related (which, strangely works better at long ranges
than from up close. Intentional, of course), 6 is a Gatling
Rifle type weapon, which is based on an actual weapon, 7 is
a pressure rifle (also story related) that fires shots that
can pierce multiple enemies, 8 is a missile launcher (which
will, once again, be strangely story-related), and last, but
not least, is my one and only brand new, original
flamethrower. It actually shoots a stream of flames and hits
enemies that get in the stream. It also features some nice
new art (seen in the screen shots).
The armor
feature has now also been implemented, but I can't send
screen shots of that because I am in the process of
rearranging the status bar. It is based on a tutorial in the
Dome, but with MANY modifications and complications. For
example, when attacked by a flamethrower guard, you lose a
lot of armor.
 -
dugtrio17"
There's a lot more pics
here.
Wolfsite
Revamp/New URL
Guillermo Buteler's site
has been revamped and moved to a new url. There are sections
on editing and links, plus info on the upcoming add-on
'Project: Firestar'. It's now at Wolfsite.
Feb
4:Textured Floor/Ceiling Tutorial
DarkOne has posted info
on Wolfenstein
Forums (look in the
Wolfenstein Revolution section) about a tutorial for
textured floor/ceiling effects. It's also at
Textured
Floor/Ceiling Tutorial
on DarkOne's website.
Feb
2:Area 51 Update
Due to a change to
Windows ME, 'Area 51' has been delayed. Luke has since
reinstalled Windows 98 and tells me the set will be released
soon. There are 10 levels left to do.
Feb
1:
Rise Of Purple One Delayed
Chris Pappas tells me his upcoming add-on 'Rise Of Purple
One' will be delayed until further notice. Chris is now
working on a new add-on based on the leisure suite 'Larry
Games'.
Flames Or
Rockets?
Here's an email I received fromTexZK:
"Hello,
Brian!
I am TexZK,
a young programmer of Wolfenstein 3D. I'm only 14 years old
so I'm not a good programmer, but I have an idea.
Programmers with more experience than me (like DarkOne) can
create new weapons: the rocket launcher and the
flamethrower. I think they can create weapons like them, so
I want to ask you if you can publish this e-mail. I tried to
compile a modified code with these weapons, but I haven't
got the right experience and there were a lot of
mistakes.
In my
opinion it's a great idea: why have got only weapons with
direct shoot? Shall we have a weapon with flames or
rockets?
I hope to
find an answer,
TexZK"
Comments,
anyone? TexZK's email is gnegno88@libero.it.
JANUARY 2003
Jan
30:
Blake Evolution Released
Johnathan has released his first add-on. It's called 'Blake
Evolution' and uses the Blake Stone sounds and graphics set
converted to Wolf3D by Andy Nonymous. There are 9 new levels
(all are pretty good) and the secret level comes from 'Blake
Wolf'. There's more
info, including the storyline, in the enclosed text file.
Click
here
for the download.
Jan
26:
Newwolf Texture Pack Released
(Win)Elchtest has released a texture pack of new Wolf3d
textures (all made from scratch). They can be used with
Newwolf http://wolfgl.narod.ru/.
Please note however, it's a hefty 22Mb!!
Battlestein
3D Pic
Here's the title screen from John Burnett's upcoming
TC 'Battlestein 3D'.
Wolfenstein
3D Maniac Site Link
Martin Krysiak tells me the site he is hosting with Kuki is
now online. It looks good and has a large number of
sections, though some aren't finished yet. It's at
Wolfenstein
3D Maniac.
Jan
24:
Vampire Released
JJ's latest set is for shareware Wolf3D v1.4 and is called
'Vampire'. There are 5 levels, plus a number of graphics and
sounds changes. Instead of Hans Grosse though, you get
Schabbs and he's on all levels!! You can download it
here.
Jan
19:
Schabbs 9000 Released
Kyle Fisher has released 'Schabbs 9000'. There are 5 levels,
plus a whole host of Doom type graphics and sounds. New
title screen, plus new helpart/endart files. I did the last
3 levels. You can download it here.
DOS Games
Under XP
Most Wolf3D fans who've upgraded to WinXP tell me they can
play the game but without the sounds. There is a site which
specializes in problems running DOS games under WinXP. It's
at DOS
Games Under XP.
Jan
18:
Sport Woooolf Released
Agnieszka has released 'Sport Woooolf'. Each of the first 5
episodes has either 2 or 3 levels. There's a wide range of
level designs which on the whole are pretty good. There are
a number of graphics and sounds changes, but the atmosphere
of the original game remains.You can download it
here.
This is a RAR file, but a ZIP file is also available
here.
Assault
On Castle Totenhammer Update
For the latest news on this upcoming TC by Joe Robinson -
go
here.
Phoenix
Rising Ad Poster
Wes Desjardins sent me an ad poster for his upcoming
TC 'Phoenix Rising'.
Jan
17:
Polskie Forum Wolfenstein
For Wolf3D fans who understand Polish, here's a new forum.
It's hosted by Kuki. Polskie
Forum Wolfenstein
Phoenix
Rising Pic
Wes Desjardins sent me the following pic from his upcoming
TC 'Phoenix Rising'. It's in WolfGL.
Jan
13:
Escape From Totenhaus Released
Here's another Mac conversion from Laz Rojas. Originally
released on the Mac in 1996, it's now available for
PC users. There's 10 very good levels (first episode)
and a lot of new graphics and sounds. Click
here
for the download. Needs the full version of
Wolf3D to play.
Jan
11:
New Revival Of Memories Site
Our ROM (Revival Of Memories) project now has a new
site. There's lots of info about the project, plus a large
number of pics. It's at Revival
Of Memories Site.
Jan
9:
SST Cancelled/New Project Announced
Due to difficulties in getting action from the big screen
into Wolf3D, 'The Alien Fan' has cancelled SST (StarShip
Trooper) and announced a new project called
'ColonialMarines'. There's info about the project (along
with a set of 8 pics) here.
Zach's
Upcoming TC Pic
Zach Higgin's next TC will be called 'If'. Here's a pic
from it he sent me.
Jan
7:
New URL For Alexandre Brosseau's Wolf3D Site
Alexandre tells me his site has moved to a new url at
http://www.wolf3dmaster.cjb.net. Alexandre
Brosseau's Wolf3D Site.
Jan
5:
News Page Back Online
Our apologies to all for the delay in getting this page back
online. And a belated Happy New Year to everyone.
Unfortunately, the revamp of the Dome is taking far longer
than expected (we estimate Jan 22) but in the
meantime the news page is back up. Those wanting
add-ons/source code info etc. can still find them at my
other site Mr.
Lowe's Wolf3D Page.
Dome
Award/Dec 2002
The final Dome Award of the year goes to Zach Higgins and
James Ingham for their TC Projekt
Vertilgung. It
really is an excellent set and one well worth
downloading.
Beyond
Mutantstein Special Edition Update
An error was found on level 15 (white key not accessible) of
John's 'Tribute Set'. This was fixed Jan 3, 2003. Revised
maps (41Kb) are available
here
for those who've already downloaded the earlier version.
Projekt
Vertilgung (Final Version) Released
Zach Higgins has released the final version of 'Projekt
Vertilgung'. There are 20 well designed levels, plus a lot
of graphics, sounds and source code changes. A very well
made set. By Zach Higgins and James Ingham. Will Bruso also
contributed. Available here.
Raw Meat
3 Update
Ryan Steinbruner tells me 'Raw Meat 3' is coming out soon.
There's a whole new code, 16 levels and all new weapons,
including the plasma bolt! A new level called the crypt will
have lots of zombies and dead aliens! Help is wanted for
some parts of the project.
Newwolf
Pics
Two more pics for Newwolf have been sent in by
[Win]Elchtest. You can see them here.
You can see
it here.
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