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Re: First 3D-like game with rocket launcher ?

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From: RjY
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:05
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Smola posted:
>In article <442d6$4ba6368e$d53371df$12889@cache6.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>, 
>IntoTheFuture@hotmail.com says...
>> This guy also does it: (strafe running):
>> http://www.youtube.com/user/wraithSC#p/c/F62496F9DF83B825/23/n7Ga9r2jzGc
>Yes, but it's PRBOOM, right?

Doomsday/JDoom, according to the comments.[1] (I thought there was far
too much ridiculous bling in that video for it to be PrBoom...)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=n7Ga9r2jzGc

>And the other demo is ZDoom. Will it work in vanilla Doom?

Yes, I believe strafejumps work in the original game.

>And, is this designed to use the rocket launcher? Did John Romero think 
>of it?

Apparently the rocket jump was indeed the intended route.[2][3]

[2] http://www.rome.ro/lee_killough/history/doomqna.shtml#e3m6
[3] http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/E3M6:_Mt._Erebus_(Doom)#Trivia

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