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Cool curiosities! The chocolate quake source port is great as well. I've always wondered why there wasn't a chocolate doom equivalent for quake. It was nice to see its announcement earlier this year, so I've been quietly following its development ever since. The guy behind it did a great job, now we just need a crispy doom equivalent for quake! I also wonder where is that tortoise texture from. Seems such a small thi…
Cool curiosities! The chocolate quake source port is great as well. I've always wondered why there wasn't a chocolate doom equivalent for quake. It was nice to see its announcement earlier this year, so I've been quietly following its development ever since. The guy behind it did a great job, now we just need a crispy doom equivalent for quake! I also wonder where is that tortoise texture from. Seems such a small thi…
I am not familiar with chocolate doom what makes it better than any other doom source port? There are many good source ports of quake, I always liked darkplaces but it intentionally and willfully tries to push improvements so not really for purists. There is stuff like fitzquake/quakespasm that stays much closer to vanilla quake and if you like quakeworld ftequake.
I saw that NET indicator plenty when playing on 56k back in the day. Funny to see it written about as some curious historical artifact.
Yeah. Looks like an ethernet jack. True, buts its a modem jack (rj11 maybe?)
> The DISC indicator wraps HDD access done via Sys_FileRead. ... The code for this indicator is in SCR_DrawRam.
I can't find the image itself but just judging by its name SCR_DrawRam is for displaying the image for the RAM indicator.
Cool curiosities! The chocolate quake source port is great as well. I've always wondered why there wasn't a chocolate doom equivalent for quake. It was nice to see its announcement earlier this year, so I've been quietly following its development ever since. The guy behind it did a great job, now we just need a crispy doom equivalent for quake! I also wonder where is that tortoise texture from. Seems such a small thi…
I am not familiar with chocolate doom what makes it better than any other doom source port? There are many good source ports of quake, I always liked darkplaces but it intentionally and willfully tries to push improvements so not really for purists. There is stuff like fitzquake/quakespasm that stays much closer to vanilla quake and if you like quakeworld ftequake.
The earliest doom variants once the source code released started adding features that weren't faithful to the original dos version 1.9.
Even Boom which was a pretty conservative codebase that focused on limit removal for level editing added weird things like weapon recoil pushing the player back when you shoot a weapon.
So chocolate doom's name is wordplay on "vanilla doom" - it's the version of doom we all played in the 90s just updated with current i/o libraries (libSDL) so it can run on modern platforms.
> The NET indicator is displayed when a client has not received any packets from the server in the last 300ms. This was likely aimed at players to help them determine how bad their ping was. This is not an indicator of high ping. It's an indication of loss of connectivity. Even if your ping is 2 seconds, the server should be sending you updates regularly. If you haven't received anything in 300 ms, either you're losi…
In practice if you have a very high ping, you're losing packets or there's buffering somewhere. Not because you have a 30,000 km long ethernet cable.
Moving to a cable connection in ~2001 was shocking in comparison!
Still a cool article though.
> The NET indicator is displayed when a client has not received any packets from the server in the last 300ms. This was likely aimed at players to help them determine how bad their ping was. This is not an indicator of high ping. It's an indication of loss of connectivity. Even if your ping is 2 seconds, the server should be sending you updates regularly. If you haven't received anything in 300 ms, either you're losi…
Example: the slow-motion replay of this demo causes the flashing of the net icon due to the packet frequency red-shift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdkDjsBiO58
Hmmm. Is that a term of art? I thought you were being funny, but I found at least one paper talking about packet red-shift: https://upcommons.upc.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/00bbf88...