Old versions of FreeDoom, anyone?

Does anyone have old versions of FreeDoom IWAD's, like 0.1 and everything that followed since then? I am in need of them to trace the development of the project because I'm thinking of writing the article (or something like that) about FreeDoom's progress from one release to the other, until it's final version... if it will happen :)

So, anyone can share it with me/us, please?

Some of them aren't available anymore due to some asshat throwing in copyrighted music. I'm sure someone has a copy of the problematic releases, but I don't.

There are some old versions that you can find. Make a Google search for "Freedoom 0.6.3" or older, and tell it to search specifically for Freedoom, not Freedom, and you'll get them.

Versions from 0.6.4 and later are on the official site.

http://www.geocities.ws/catodemos/freedoom/iwads/

Some of the older versions are also scattered over some Linux distros' FTP repositories.

http://snapshot.debian.org/package/freedoom/

Does anyone have any even older versions than 0.1?

The ones I posted that are not properly labelled with a version number might be.

If anyone are interested in some really old (late 2001/early 2002) Freedoom PWADs, I found some here: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://freedoom.despayre.org:81/deutex/wads/*

This site links to some of the earliest Freedoom files, though the files themself doesn't seem to be backed up: https://web.archive.org/web/20010804162225/http://fraggle.despayre.org/freedoom/deutex/

I can recommend looking around in those old websites I mentioned that are now frozen in time at The Internet Archive to see if there's anything more of interest.

Freedoom 2003-2019

an archive i have of E V E R Y freedoom wad. gets monthly updates with the autobuild from the day its updated

 btw the zip with 0.1 - 0.12.1 is Freedoom 2003-2019.zip

also i took the time to label every version in the zip. the wads named freedoom#-v12-0 or FreeDM-v12-0 are an autobuild from may of this year.

On 8/25/2016 at 7:16 PM, Cire said:

If anyone are interested in some really old (late 2001/early 2002) Freedoom PWADs, I found some here: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://freedoom.despayre.org:81/deutex/wads/*

This site links to some of the earliest Freedoom files, though the files themself doesn't seem to be backed up: https://web.archive.org/web/20010804162225/http://fraggle.despayre.org/freedoom/deutex/

I can recommend looking around in those old websites I mentioned that are now frozen in time at The Internet Archive to see if there's anything more of interest.

too bad some of the 2001 wads are lost.

like the freedoom.wad with the title screen and status bar in it.

though all the 2002 ones are good

(EDIT: y'know i take that back, only one is lost. the sprites wad, although everything is in the freedoom.wad file so yeah.)

On 12/17/2015 at 10:58 AM, Blastfrog said:

Some of them aren't available anymore due to some asshat throwing in copyrighted music. I'm sure someone has a copy of the problematic releases, but I don't.

yeah. 0.6.3 is really hard to find, i found ONLY the phase 2 wad and thats it. i havent archived it and i dont think i should due to it being what started that whole copyright fiasco to begin with.

7 posts in a row with that animated avatar... that is... really something, isn't it.

Debian has some very old releases still in their archives:

https://snapshot.debian.org/package/freedoom/

12 minutes ago, Chris Hansen said:

7 posts in a row with that animated avatar... that is... really something, isn't it.

yeah its a gif image i made with the death frames of the freedoom zombieman.

i made another gif of a really old health bonus sprite from 0.5.

On 12/17/2015 at 9:28 AM, Blastfrog said:

Some of them aren't available anymore due to some asshat throwing in copyrighted music. I'm sure someone has a copy of the problematic releases, but I don't.

forgot about copyrighted sounds that were thrown in?

have i suddenly just made this one forum post relevant again?

this is the health bonus sprite from 0.5

2 hours ago, Mr795 said:

yeah its a gif image i made with the death frames of the freedoom zombieman.

Its more that you don't have to post 7 times in a row and you can just edit your original post.

1 hour ago, Mr795 said:

have i suddenly just made this one forum post relevant again?

If you keep on bumping it up from a 2016 necropost, which is impressive by itself, then yes.

Yeah, note the comment about multiposting. Besides the unnecessarily long string of posts, you don't have to announce something like "i made another gif of a really old health bonus sprite from 0.5" before sharing it in a separate post; just wait and post that + sprite together. 

And please pick an avatar that doesn't have abrasively flashing lights. 

https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedoom/files/OldFiles/

Almost all old versions can be downloaded from sourceforge, from version 0.3 to 0.6.2

I remember fraggle posting a link in the freed∞m discord to a GitHub page that had all the versions. Even the beta ones

I was dumb and didn't save it 😂

On 11/28/2023 at 8:39 AM, Lonespacemarine said:

I remember fraggle posting a link in the freed∞m discord to a GitHub page that had all the versions. Even the beta ones

I was dumb and didn't save it 😂

that's the historic repo, probably the last time i will post on this specific topic due to the cringe i pulled here when i first joined doomworld.