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Title:	The ACCURSED
Filename:	levels/doom2/a-c/accursed.zip
Size:	1.03 MB
Date:	11/16/96
Author:	Jeffrey J. Martin from the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Description:
Credits:
Base:	New levels from scratch.
Build time:
Editor(s) used:
Bugs:
Rating:	(7 votes)

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Reviews:

Anonymous	Boring	x
Anonymous	This old wad is surprisingly entertaining. It has some nice new graphics and even new DEHACKED monsters, but they're all quite weak and even the nice Archvile clone loses his horror very fast. The first maps show some very clever layouts, however the later maps are slacking a bit. And the last map was rather boring. Gameplay is very easymanly imps and marines. It's good and innovative work for 1996 but a bit tame for today's standards. 3/5 -Milian	x
Anonymous	Not bad. Map05 is nice.	x
Anonymous	Pfft. Very average and generatic for its time, and nowadays it seems very dated; there are mazes, switch hunts, secret bits that are nonetheless part of the level solution, and the author has jiggled with the sounds to no positive effect (the demon uses the arch-vile's sounds, slowed-down, which is unnerving).	x
Anonymous	I recommend to play this one w/o using the new sprites (they r crap). Besides that the maps go from average to ugly layout. - PerOxyd	x

View accursed.txt

========================================================================
Title                   : The ACCURSED
Filename                : ACCURSED.ZIP 
Author                  : Jeffrey J. Martin from the land of the free
                          and the home of the brave.
Email Address           : jmartin@soundcom.net
Misc. Author Info       : programmer / HW tech, inventor of
                          Little Sisters Dreaming. 
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                          Previous PWADS by author:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ABATTOIR                *ABATTOIR.ZIP*
(The Slaughter house)   ftp.cdrom.com    
                    
       ADDICTED TO BLOOD      *ATB31.ZIP*
                              avail ftp.cdrom.com
                              (they got everything)

RECREATIONAL CARNAGE     *REC_CARN.ZIP*
                                      lost out on the net
                                      somewhere?  Cool name
                                      tho, "recreational carnage".
==========================================================================	  
Single Player           : Yes (intended design)
Cooperative 2-4 Player  : Yes (coop starts provided)
Deathmatch 2-4 Player   : Yes (deathmatch starts provided)
Difficulty Settings     : HMP & UV
New Sounds              : Yes.
New Graphics            : Yes. Features new textures, flats as well
                               as new thing and monster sprites.
New Music               : Yes.
Demos Replaced          : No.

* Play Information *

Level #                 : This is v1.0 effecting MAP01 thru MAP05.
                          This PWAD should run on DOOM ][ versions
                          1.2 thru 1.9.

Play notes:           These levels will not be very good on anything
                      less than a 486/66 w/ a LB video card.
                      To play ACCURSED, the install partition must have
                      3.5 meg free in order to unpack the ACCURSED.ZIP
                      archive and then an additional 4.5 meg free
                      to install the sprites.  If this is true, then
                      proceed as follows:

Unzip the ACCURSED.ZIP archive so that its
                      contents reside in the same directory as
                      your DOOM2 binaries then run the DOS program
                      ACCURSED to install the sprites and/or run the
                      game afterwards.  If this is not desirable
                      or practical, then issue the following DOS
                      command: DEUSF -SPRITES -ADD ASPRITES.WAD ACCUR_FX.WAD
                      to install the sprites, and then:
                      DOOM2 -FILE ACCUR_FX.WAD ACCURSED.WAD thereafter.

The ACCURSED.ZIP archive should contain the following:

Filename:      Description:
                         ---------      ------------
                      1) ACCURSED.WAD   level data.
                      2) ASPRITES.WAD   sprites data.
                      3) ACCURSED.TXT   ftp.cdrom.com required file.
                      4) ACCURSED.EXE   utility to install/run The ACCURSED.
                      5) ACCURSED.C     MSC source file.
                      6) DEUSF.EXE      utility to merge sprites.

* Construction *

Base                    : New levels from scratch.
Tools(s) used           : DCK v2.2         MAP building.
                          BSP v1.1         NODES building.
                          RMB v1.0         REJECT map optimization.
                          DEUSF            Merging sprites.
                          DMGRAPH/AUD      Textures / flats & sounds.
                          NWT              PWAD file twiddling.
                          Paint Shop Pro   Looking at pictures.
                          My mind          What a terrible thing I've wasted.
==========================================================================
* Known Bugs *

This is v1.0.  See E-mail at top for bug reporting.
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* Copyright / Permissions *

Authors MAY use anything in this archive that they might find usefull,
as long as either they find me blameless or assign me all the credit.
=========================================================================

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