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Re: DOOM3 is merely an updated DOOM (from 1984)

#86497
From: pop
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:55
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"Raymond Martineau" <bk039@freenet.carleton.ca> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:45:29 GMT, "pop" <p_o_p@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >"Bootstrap Bill" <wrcousert@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >news:%P%Rc.231107$a24.102464@attbi_s03...
> >>
> >> "Brian" <screw@spammers.com> wrote in message
> >> news:zaURc.5019$U_.4348@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com...
> >> > 1984?  Yeah, I remember.  Doom for the Commodore 64 and Radio Shack
> >> TRS-80.
> >> > It was great fun ;)
> >>
> >> They did have Escape from Castle Wolfenstein.
> >>
> >> Did ID create that, or just borrow the name for Wofenstein 3D?
> >IIRC "Wolfenstein 3D" and "Escape from Castle Wolfenstein" are one and the
> >same...
>
> Not really - Escape would be the Commodore 64 game in a top-down view.
> Wolf3D Episode 1 game has the same story line where you have to escape from
> the castle, but the old game requires you to get some battle plans.
>
ahhhh.... OK - I never had a C64 so I was not aware of that EFCW version... see,
not too old for an old dog to learn new stuff :-)
-- 
pop is Mark
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