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Re: Doom & First Comments

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From: dou... Russ Doucet
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 1994 01:38
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In article <2gc77b$4...@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> yn...@merhaba.cc.columbia.edu (Yann Nicolas) writes:
>The new 1.2 version should fix that... What I did in the meantime is replace 
>the DOOM.EXE from the registered version with the DOOM.EXE from the shareware
>1.0 (v 0.99) and rename my DOOM.WAD to DOOM1.WAD... The game runs like a movie
>now (30 fps)...

I'm a little bit confused here... what did doom.wad > doom1.wad accomplish?

The procedure you have just described updates what exactly?  Does it transfer 
the dos extender patch from the .99 > 1.1 upgrade to the full version?

My registered version is still in the mail <sniff> but we've been having
a heck of a time with doom over our little network here... deathmatch is 
awesome.
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From: dou...@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Russ Doucet)
Subject: Re: Doom & First Comments
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 01:38:27 GMT
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