We now host Risen 3D at DRD Team. You can find their new home here. Please join me in welcoming our new hostees!

As many of you already know, Risen 3D is a source port for Doom which is branched from an older version of the Doomsday engine but comes with a host of new features. If you've never tried it out before, you definitely should - the port, and the extras available with it, including the new textures and models, are definitely worth checking out.

Welcome to DRD Team!

(By the way, special thanks to Enjay for setting things in motion )

John Romero recently posted on his blog a VHS recording that was made by Dan Linton while making a visit to id Software during Doom's development. In this, you can see what the offices of id Software were like at the time, and you also get an early preview of what Doom was like before it was released. If you've ever played the Press-Release beta, you'll see a lot of similarities, but the version demonstrated in this video was different in a number of ways. You can see what some of the levels looked like before they were released. Also notable in this video is Bobby Prince.

http://rome.ro/2009/04/visit-to-id-software-1993.html

The DRD forum is now phpBB3. I'm opening the forum now, but I am still doing some last-minute touchups and things. Enjoy!

Please note the following:

• Posts containing custom BB codes, such as [spoiler] and [/s] were not properly converted. The conversion script does not automatically convert these, so any recent posts you have that use these codes will need to be edited.
  
  • To do this properly, edit the post, and simply check "Disable BBCode", and hit submit. Then edit the post again, and uncheck that same box. The post should now show your BB codes properly.
  • If you wish to remove the "Edited by" message, send me a PM with the post ID's in question.
• Subtopics have been removed. If there is a high demand for them, they will be put back in.
• Doom Armory has not been converted. I am going to open the phpBB2 forum on WW's site so it can continue to be used there. Old forum is now open. Wildweasel's site has been updated to point to it.
• There may have been bugs in the conversion (I sure to god hope not). If there are, please send me a private message.
• RSS feeds will not update. (yet)
• All inactive new registrations have been pruned. If you registered on the old board and never answered your activation email, then your account was deleted.
• Search currently does not work. At the moment, there is nothing I can do about it. Fixing it seems to involve bringing the board down... again. In the meantime, you can use Google... but it will never be as good as the real thing. I did an off-line indexing and reimported the search database. Search SHOULD work now, please report any problems.
• The Picture of the Week feature is disabled. I suspect it never really was used, anyway.
• A good bit of consideration went into ensuring that all old bookmarks and URL's would continue to function. If you have a bookmark that does not work, please report it to me in this thread. I would greatly appreciate the assistance! Thank you.
• Styles are also being installed a bit slowly - more will be added later! Unless a style is requested, I think I am going to stick with what's in place.

Thanks to Randy at the ZDoom forums, the last and final barrier that's stopped the board upgrade for so long has now been broken. He gave me some code that he used on his News page on ZDoom.org, and after a few hours of playing with it, I managed to convert 3 sites to the new format which now pulls from the phpBB3 forums.

The one thing that will be lost in this upgrade will be the sub-topics. If there is a really high demand for them, I may install a mod to put them back in, but it is my preference to keep the new forum as vanilla as possible. (It's a lot easier to fix things when they break, not to mention version upgrades...)

Anyway, the converted CMS's include the following:
DRD Home Page, GZDoom, and GrubberSoft.

For anyone who knows bagheadspidey from the ZDoom forums, and his notable contributions to the Doom community, you've probably wondered why the man has never had any permanent home page, other than a free host here and there. Well, that's about to change...

Today, we welcome our newest hostee, bagheadspidey! His new site focuses primarily on the tools and the wads he's developed over his period of time in the Doom community, and I am quite sure that there will be more to come. Now, you can now easily navigate and find anything that he's previously published!

Welcome aboard!

These are the links to his home page and his forum. :)

Version 2.3.0 is now out for everyone to enjoy, and sports a whole host of new features that are sure to please! There are so many new features, it would be impossible to list them all here, so check it out!

And by the way, that of course means Graf has released a new version of GZDoom, so that means 1.2.00 is out now, too!

Here are some easy links to the download pages: ZDoom and GZDoom

What was once a solo project is now a team venture. Paranoid, a project for GZDooM, now has a total of three members: Nigel 'Enjay' Rowand, DB 'Deathbringer' Thanatos, and Rex Claussen. Not only will this greatly improve the quality of the final product, it will most likely accelerate its release.

You can read more about this development at DooM Nexus, which is hosted by DRD Team.

Oh, and the project has a new name. You guessed it: it's 'The Persecution Complex'.

Hope you all have a great holiday season. It's that time of year for caring, sharing, singing irritating Christmas carols, throwing chunks of snow at each other (or lacking snow, perhaps clods of dirt). Anyway, merry Christmas, happy holidays, from all of us at DRD Team. (Well, maybe all of us. I haven't heard from most of the team in a while. =P)

Many of the plans to upgrade this site's forum system and help make it more attractive to newcomers are coming along.

Right now, I'm happy to announce that the test forum is closer than ever to proving that an upgrade to phpBB3 is viable. It's got many of the features of the existing forum, including a close replica of the original forum's interface (though an entirely new one will be available later, as a user-selected option!).

Special thanks goes to WolfyGirl for helping with the style project. I think this project is nearly complete.

Special thanks also goes to Risen on the ZDoom forum, because without his help, many people would be missing their custom titles.

There are a few projects left before this whole thing gets launched. If you want to help, please post here!

After a long wait from the highly popular Scuba Steve's: Action Doom, the ACTION TEAM has released Action Doom 2 for GZDoom. What are you waiting for? Go get some ACTION!!!