2000

December 30, 2000

Lane Lawson has released Wolfenstein: Iron Edition. It has around 20 new levels (most of the first 2 episodes, and a few on the third one). There are also many graphics, sounds and source code changes. There’s a lot of pushwalls too! All files are included. Upcoming sets by Lane include Stalin’s Reign and Gothenstein.

I recently dug out a 1992 shareware set called Newmaps. There are ten new levels, and there’s some good ideas but it’s really only for those who want to play/collect every set. It’s version 1.0, but all files are included in the zip. I added a cheat file (use CTRL/TAB/ENTER to initialize) as some levels are quite difficult to get out of. Find it here.

Operation Uberfaust is a new scenario for the Mac by Juan J. Alva. The original version had a minor bug (a pushwall that didn’t work) but this one has that fixed.

Tris’s new site The Final Solution is now online. It’s well designed and has many sections, including news, source code info, features and links etc. There’s a lot of info on Tris’s new set, also called TFS (which is mentioned below). It can also be downloaded from here.

December 28, 2000

The Final Solution by Tris has been released. As mentioned earlier, the set has 20 continuous levels, many new graphics and source code changes etc. This is a very good set, and all files are included.

December 24, 2000

The latest set by John Bucksnort and Harry Mass Sr – Mutantstein II is due for release early in the new year. The title screen is shown opposite…

There are more pics here. John tells me a new Spear trilogy is planned. It’s to be called The Grienholdt Covenant, and will consist of three 10 level episodes.

TFS by Tris should be released within a few days. The set has 20 continuous levels, many new graphics and source code changes etc. News of its release will be posted here and on my main page.

Totengraeber II has been released. I’ve not played any of it yet, but I hear it has 48 brand new consecutive levels, and a host of graphics and source code changes. More details and the download are available at BJ Rowan’s Bunker.

A new set of Project Holleregen pics have been released by Eric Vaughn. One is shown below…

You can see the others here.

Paolo Cadeddu emailed me to say he is working on Japanstein again. He hopes to finish the set during the Christmas break.

December 17, 2000

Kenny Riley has released some pics from his forthcoming project Hinrichtung. Here’s one of them…

There’s more pics and info on the project.

I updated my Spear page. For those who would like to know more about the origins and conditions of the Spear… there’s an article by grailknight2001. Look for the link The Seven Conditions That Are Key. It sounds heavy, and it is!! And if you’re still interested after that, there’s a Yahoo Club at KNIGHTS IN QUEST OF THE GRAIL.

Greg’s final version of his Einmacht shareware set will be released soon. There’ll be more news posted here as soon as I get it.

December 9, 2000

John Bucksnort has released A Madman’s Dream. There are ten new levels, plus many new graphics, sounds and source code changes. A very challenging and well designed set. All files are included.

The upcoming set Project Holleregen by Eric Vaughn is progressing well, and some pics have now been released. The title screen is shown opposite. More pics here.

Tris sent me this email…

Hi Brian, here’s an announcement…

Dear members of the Wolfenstein 3D Community, when I started my club, Tris’s Coding Alliance, a while ago, people visited often. After a fight between me and another member, it seems many people left the club( they didn’t remove their names from the list, but simply don’t visit again). That’s rather sad, ’cause I hoped to get more members and more understanding of the source code among the people in the Wolfenstein Community (phew, I’m sounding like a 70-year-old filosoph, eh?). So people, please come back to my club. There won’t be any more fights, that’s a promise.

Tris.

Tris’s club is at Tris’s Coding Alliance.

I updated my eXTRAS page with a new section on the early 80’s Apple II program Castle Wolfenstein. Here’s a link to a page with info on one of it’s sequels Castle Smurfenstein Home Page.

Ben Blaufarb’s site has moved to Planet Quake, and it’s now called DLA ONE. There’s a page dedicated to Tekkoudan, and there’s other sections for Ben’s earlier sets.

December 3, 2000

James (Jimboages) released some pics from his Hell Fire project. James sent me to see the whole set.

The following message by kicken_kyle was posted on The Wolfenstein 3D Fan Club…

I’m making an add-on using for the Spear of Destiny registered version. I need people to make maps. Don’t worry, your name will be posted in the add-on. I just need maps I can import using floedit. Heres the guidelines:

• It’s set in bj’s mansion, so no nazi symbols, just plain walls like grey stone walls, or brown marble walls.
• You must have already made an add-on.
• Post here (The Wolfenstein 3D Fan Club) for validation. Post the name of the most popular add-on you have made, specify how many levels you want to make (max is 5), and anything else you find important.
• I will post a reply saying yes or no. If yes, I will assign you to the levels.
• After your maps are made, send ’em to me.

November 24, 2000

This month’s SPEAR OF DESTINY FAN CLUB Spear Of Excellence Award goes to Paal Olstadt for his Poet’s Wolfenstein Page, and excellent levels tutorial. Well deserved, Paal.

John Bucksnort’s next set will be A Madman’s Dream. It will be released within 2 weeks. Meanwhile, John has sent me a set of pics. 

Here’s a message from David Gebler that he posted on The Wolfenstein 3D Fan Club…

Gebweb.co.uk has been fully re-designed and is now up and running at http://www.gebweb.co.uk – it is only a test version, so not all sections are currently up and running. Expect full functionality in the next month. You can apply for webspace there, too. We will soon be adding chat and message board functions.

-Dave.

OK folks, here’s a new Wolf 3D site. It’s called Jagdpanther’s Wolfenstein Site. There’s news, add-ons, projects info and links. There’s also a set of good pics from the forthcoming add-on Projekt Wolf. And here’s the site banner…

Yet another new site is Wolfenstein 3D by Harry Sr. This one is still under construction but already has a lot there. There’s a nicely designed front page and an add-ons section listing all of Harry’s sets.

November 19, 2000

My Easyspace webspace is now nearly full so I’ve gotten another one at http://www.wolfenstein3d.co.uk. At present, there’s just a copy of my Home Page, but I intend to replace it with something Wolf 3D related later. Any ideas from anyone ??

November 16, 2000

Guystein 2 has been updated. There are now 30 new levels on episodes 1, 3 and 5, but I haven’t checked all these out yet. (Guy Brys tells me there could still be some bugs in the set). More news on this when I’ve played it all, but if you want to try it out – it’s at Guy’s Home Page.

Jordan Buck has released a new beta version of his Escape From The Labyrinth set. There are now 18 completed levels, plus some graphics and many source code changes. All files are now included in the zip. Jordan hopes to release a final version in a few months but this could be delayed.

Here’s a link for Mac fans that I came across by chance. There’s stacks of add-ons and other Wolfenstein 3D related files. It’s at Esplanaden Wolfenstein 3D.

This is not Wolfenstein 3D related, but if you liked the original Pacman game then try out this new 12 level set. It’s freeware, and there’s a lot of other stuff here to download too!! Pac World.

November 13, 2000

John Bucksnort has released his Evil In Iron set with Doom graphics. I just made a set of pics – one of them is shown below. The set is available from John’s Page too at John Bucksnort Wolf 3D Page.

November 11, 2000

Wolfendoom is a sixty level set sent in by AReyeP. (Steve tells me it’s pronounced as RIP). All levels are new and very well designed. There’s also a whole bunch of new graphics and sounds. All files are included in the zip, including some lengthy text files which have a lot of info on the set. Here’s a pic from episode two…

November 9, 2000

Here’s an email from Tris…

Hi Brian, Here’s a small (small?) update on TFS.

Yeah, it’s been a while, but here it is…

The game’s engine is rather complete, but some extras still need to be added. I’d like to know if anyone could help me out with these. I don’t have the knowledge for it.

I still need:

• A heartbeat sound that plays infinite when the player’s health is 40% or less
• A second unlocked door with a texture from -74 ( I use MapEdit 8.0, so if you also know how to set it up in there???)
• Occasionally jamming of the chaingun
• When you’re out of ammo, you can still select the weapons, but you hear a “click”(digitized sound I guess)

If anyone could help me with this, MAIL ME! Tris@yahoo.com

The game’s levels are now 80% complete. That is, all level layouts are complete, but some still need some treasure, ammo, enemies, etc.

See you around,

Tris.

John Bucksnort sent me a title screen for his latest project A Madman’s Dream. The set will have ten new levels. Graphics, sounds and source code will be similar to those in Tobruk, but with a few surprises.

Harry Senior tells me there’s a bug on the fifth level of his Death Waits set. Harry sends his apologies and this update, which will put things right.

Eat At Joes has been a long time coming but there’s now a new ten level download for this set at Eat At Joes. There’s lots of graphics, sounds and source code changes. (Many of the actors are cartoon-like). This set requires the original Wolf3D 60 level set as some of the files have been deliberately left out (copyright reasons, I guess).

November 4, 2000

Here’s a message from David Gebler…

Biokrieg’s engine has been completed for a long time, but the problem is, I don’t really have the time to design the remaining 27 levels that need to be done before it can be released. There must be someone out there who can lend a hand towards getting Biokrieg complete – so if anyone at all is interested in helping, please e-mail smooth_nite@hotmail.com – Thanks.

-David Gebler.

Just arrived is this new set for the Spear Demo. It’s by Guillermo Buteler and is called Nazi’s Death Valley. Both levels are new, and all files are included.

Wolfenstein Collection is a new 30 level set for Wolfenstein 3D. It’s by MCS, who comes from Holland, and has many new sounds, graphics, music, and title screen. The cheats have been changed in this set (the ILM command is now MCS). MCS has spent more than 300 hours on this set, and this is shown in the quality of the levels.

From what I’ve played, this set would particularly suit those who prefer the original game, especially in the first 3 levels. However, there are many surprises and those who like new graphics and source code changes will also find something here.

The earlier version of this game (before 11/04/00) had a bug. There’s a small patch which will put this right.

Paal Olstad’s page has a new banner. Here it is…

October 31, 2000

Two new sets were released today. The first is by John Bucksnort and Harry Senior and is called Mutantstein. This has six new levels. The other set is called Death Waits and is by Harry Senior. This one has ten new levels. Both sets are difficult to play and have many new graphics, sounds and source code changes. Both also have all files included. For pics see October 29 news items.

October 29, 2000

This month’s SPEAR OF DESTINY FAN CLUB Spear Of Excellence Award goes to Brent for his Wolf3-D Headquarters site. Well done, Brent!!

Paal Olstad’s next set Wolf Hour will soon be released. It will come with a new exe with several source code changes. There’s a missile launcher using its own ammo, missiles, and some other new features not found elsewhere. There’s more info on Poet’s Wolfenstein Page.

John Bucksnort and Harry Senior have been working on a new set called Mutantstein: The Nightmare Returns. There are lots of changesincluding ceiling colours, music and sounds. It should be released within the coming week but for now John has sent me this set of pics. Meanwhile Robocop4, which John is working on with Jake, is also progressing well though there are still some new levels to complete.

 

Harry Senior has also sent mesome pics. They come from a new set as yet untitled and are included with the Mutantstein ones mentioned above.

I received an award from John Bucksnort for this news page. It’s called a Personal Achievement Award. John tells me this will be awarded from time to time, though not necessarily every month. Anyways, thanks John.

October 20, 2000

Here’s news from David Gebler…

There are serveral things I have to say in this message, so read carefully everyone. The first thing, is that the more observant of you may have noticed that the new Gebweb.co.uk Network has still not been uploaded, and that Wolfenstein 3D Insanity has not been updated in a while. This is because I am currently involved in the development of an exciting new product for authors. It’s called E-Book Writer, and enables authors to write entire books and sell them without any publication costs at all. So if you’re a first time author, you can still sell your work in our new file format, which we’ve called Standard E-Book Format. This isn’t an advert, but as a side issue, if you’re interested in beta-testing or purchasing a copy of this product, please e-mail beta@gebweb.co.uk and let us know. Note that only a maximum of five people will be required to beta-test.

My Wolfenstein 3D TC, Biokrieg, is nearly finished, but I could really do with a hand from someone who’s good at designing levels. Please e-mail smooth_nite@hotmail.com if you’re interested.

That’s all for now. Until next time, bye everyone!

 

-David Gebler

smooth_nite@hotmail.com

John Bucksnort’s main Wolf3D/Spear Page now has a new url. It’s at http://www.jbucksnort.com.

Adam’s Wolfenstein 3D site has been deleted. It seems there was a disagreement between Adam and Kenny Riley. Anyways, Kenny asked me to post the exchange of emails. You can see it here.

Here’s the exchange of emails between Adam and Kenny concerning the deletion of Adam’s site…

Brian, I’m sure you’ve seen the site that says I destroyed his site. Well I have something you can make into a text file and put it on you news page for the explanation why this guy is full of shit. Anyway here’s the message:

Okay this guy named Adam had a wolf site and he ripped my whole source code section off so I e-mailed him and this is the e-mail:

“Adam,

I went to your page today and I saw your source code section. You have some tutorials that I wrote and they are a rip off of mine that you altered. All you had to do was e-mail me and ask but you didn’t do that. Now since you just took it without asking take my tutorials off of your page and no don’t ask if you can use them because the answer is no. Be creative and make your own stuff.

-Kenny”

Okay he replied with:

“The decision was made earlier this morning to delete my internet site. This was a decision partly due to the email you sent me and due to a decision of my friends at school. My site was never meant to be a ‘proper’ wolfenstein site it was only meant to be an experiment with my skills on frontpage 98. I only put a bit of the source code section on my site and I think you should also tell the other people that steal your tutorials to get them of their site as well. The whole of the web site should be gone by 12:00am. You seemed to be a person who wouldn’t mind if I used some of your tutorials, Sorry for any inconvienience and i think you did the right thing by telling me. I provided a link on my site but maybe that wasn’t enough”

Okay his site is now offline, on the bottom of his page it said “Kindly ripped from the Wolf3D Mansion” anyways here’s the link to his page:

http://members.dencity.com/wolfenstein3d/

He says I destroyed his site. That is a total lie, I told him to take off my tutorials so this guy does not know

What he’s talking about.

-Kenny

http://www.wolf3dmansion.com

 

Thanks for puttin this on your news page, I want to clear this up.

 -Kenny

October 14, 2000

John Bucksnort has released his latest set for Wolfenstein 3D. It’s called Beyond Tobruk and has 21 new levels, plus lots of graphics and other changes. All files are included.

Here’s a new Wolf 3D page. It’s by Juan Alva-Guerra and it’s called Juan’s Vampyra and Wolf/SOD Page. Here’s a banner…

WolfXL has been made available again. This is the original 60 level set but it works only as an add-on to Chokage. You can get it from my Fortune City site.

I missed last Friday’s chat concerning the Wolf 3D Convention. It seems that many others did too but ‘The Master’ has posted an update about it on The Wolfenstein 3D Fan Club.

October 6, 2000.

John Bucksnort and Little Snabes are well into their Robocop 4 project. John tells me that all source code and title screen changes have been completed.

Here’s a new set called Untitled SOD Demo. This has two new levels for the Spear demo. It’s been done by Martin Oxilia and is his first set. All files are included.

For ‘Everything about Wolf 3D’s Source Code’, visit Wolf3D Coding World.This replaces the Wolf 3D Source Code Club. It is still hosted by David Gebler.

Scott Croneberger’s Wolf3d Black Hole has moved servers. However, the redirect url is the same www.wolf3dblackhole.com.

September 29, 2000

Leo Bourbeau sent me a couple of pics from his upcoming TC Discostein. Here they are...

Tris has started a new Yahoo Club Tris’s Coding Alliance for those (like me) who are finding editing the Wolf 3D source code difficult. It’s also a place to share acheivements made with the code. BJ Rowan has joined too so anyone needing help…

Coming soon is a new Spear demo set by Martin Oxilia. This is his first set. It should be posted here within a day or two.

Bob Daum’s latest set The Ultimate has 10 new levels, plus lots of new graphics, sounds and source code changes. All files are included in the self-extracting exe. Here’s a pic…

September 23, 2000

Discostein is a new add-on being made by Leo Bourbeau and Viktor Sandberg. It will be based on the 70’s era. There are plenty of graphics changes, and some new sounds. Screenshots will be released soon.

Guillermo Buteler is working on a new set for the Spear demo. It will probably be ready by next week.

The SPEAR OF DESTINY FAN CLUB Spear of excellence Award for October goes to Kenny Riley of The Wolfenstein 3D Mansion for his cool site.

Kenny’s Wolf3D News section has a new Wolf3D Browser to download. It was made by The Master. Here’s a pic of it with one of my pages.

September 17, 2000

ZDTV has some info on the new Return To Castle Wolfenstein. There’s also a video, introduced by producer Drew Markham.

Here’s news from Scott Croneberger…

1) The Wolf3d Black Hole will move servers soon, but I will use www.wolf3dblackhole.com to forward it.

2) Return Of Doctor Schabbs full version is complete, visit my site www.geocities.com/wolf3d_blackhole/ in other projects to download it, and it only has 31 levels instead of 42. A lot better than beta 2.

Thanks, Scott.

And some news from Tris…

First, I’m redoing my site (with frames, animations and such). I’m also going to move to the GEBWEB network.

My website will be completely redone and more info and downloads will be added (it’s finished, a screenshot will appear on the main page of the old site this week).

Until then… Tris.

Little Snabes Robocop project got deleted, but he and John Bucksnort are now working on an even better Robocop. Hope the project goes well, guys.

September 12, 2000.

The latest set from Harry Senior is Gates To Hell. It has ten new levels, plus many new sounds, graphics, and title screen. First impressions are that it’s a difficult, but very well designed set. All files are included in the self-extracting exe.

Here’s news from David Gebler…

• OK, this news doesn’t JUST concern Wolf3D fans, but it IS relevant to Wolf3D. The Gebweb.co.uk Network is being TOTALLY re-done. The new site will look a lot better, have a search engine to search the web, and loads of new sites on it, including Wolf3D Insanity. There will also be an online weekly magazine about computers, programming, and games, called PC Voltage. More news about all that soon.
• Now the Wolf3D part: For a start, anyone is welcome (at this time, anyhow) to host their Wolf3D website on Gebweb.co.uk – with UNLIMITED webspace. This will benefit most smaller sites, because with the content on the new Gebweb.co.uk Network, it has been estimated that we could receive (within a few months) up to 5000 (yes, five thousand) visitors a day, meaning smaller Wolf sites will get a LOT more hits every day. Also, Project: Biokrieg is nearly ready. It should be released in less than one month. That’s all for now. Contact me at the address below if you want to know more about anything.

-David Gebler

webmaster@gebweb.co.uk

John Bucksnort has sent me a set of pics for his next Spear set Beyond Tobruk. Here’s one of them…

Kenny’s add-on Ausfuhrung has been renamed to Hinrichtung, due to translation problems.

September 9, 2000.

Ian Franken has a new Wolf3D site. It’s called Castle Wolfenstein and there are many sections including news, downloads, links and editing.

Another new Wolf3D site is Return To Castle Wolfenstein. There’s info on the game, weapons and a nice set of pics.

SOD floors dates from 1995 and has 21 new levels. It’s been designed to work best with The Lost Episodes: Mission 2 vswap. This is a well designed, but difficult set. There are many pushwalls, and keys are often hard to find. By Jamie E. Edwards. Requires the registered Spear set.

This months SPEAR OF DESTINY FAN CLUB best site award has gone to Jake for his Little Snabes Little Wolfsite. Well done, Jake.

Here’s a message from Tris…

“Hey Brian. I received an email from Martin Fernandez (the author of WOLFMUS), in which he answers my question of creating MIDI versions of the Wolfenstein 3D Music Cues. He sent me the following info. If anyone knows how to do this, let him/her contact me. Thanks. Tris.”

Martin Fernandez replies…

“Hello, Well, I’m another big fan of Wolf3d. It’s great to see that you liked the player! My initial project was to convert all the musics to MIDI. In order to fully understand the structure of the music tracks, I decided to build a music player. So now I know what every byte-sequence in the tracks mean. Unfortunately, MIDI conversion is harder to accomplish.

I started writing a converter and managed a partial translation of a couple of tracks. But I had other real-life matters to attend to and temporarily abandoned it. Basically, you have to map Adlib frequencies to notes. It can be done (and I did, but each track is a separate problem to handle). Then you have to map ‘volume’ -> MIDI velocity. Again, it can be done, but I stopped working at that point. And don’t forget the ‘sound textures’, matching Adlib voices to MIDI instruments; and drum tracks. Even then, most of the songs have effects like vibrato, slides and such. And on the MIDI world it is again possible to achieve such effects. But you need a very intelligent program to successfully detect and convert stuff like that. And what I have so far is not a real smart piece of code, just basic translation. Anyway, to do it properly, human supervision is required.

What can I say? It is possible to create an automatic converter, and you would have to manually supervise and re-arrange every track in order to get something similar to the original. I have seen four or five Wolf MIDI’s out there, some are perfect translations and I keep wondering where did they come from (Apogee itself?). But someone has to write such a program.

If you want to/have some programming knowledge, I can help you with what I already know. Else… Maybe sometime in the future I get motivated again and finish the conversion. Maybe someone else did something similar with other games and can provide the extra effort.

Why not try contacting the guys at HYPERLINK. They converted lots of Adlib songs from LucasArts games and are experts on the subject? Then again, maybe they grew tired of doing so. If they are willing to help and need some info on the track structure, let them contact me. If all of the above fails, you can still learn how to program it (I can help you out a bit) and do it yourself! That’s how most utilities get born.

Well? Tell me about it. See you, Martin Fernandez”

My Blake Stone page has been updated. Several non-working links have been removed and others added.

BJ Rowan’s three sets Project Totengraeber, The Renovation and Conflict In The Fatherland have been posted on my Fortune City server as the links on his page to these files don’t work anymore.

Guy Brys has moved his site to a new URL. It’s now at Guy’s Home Page. Guy has sections for both Wolfenstein 3D and Blake Stone. There’s a new Blake Stone level called Guystone (increased to 2 levels) to download.

September 5, 2000.

Here’s a whole bunch of news from Tris…

The Final Solution gets better and better. I’ve put a contest on my page where you can win the BETA version 1.4c of TFS 3D. You have to translate a Dutch sentence (Dutch people may not involve the contest, though… then it wouldn’t be a contest).

I also posted a new tutorial for the cheaters. It tells you how to disable the damn GOOBERS and Shift-Alt-Backspace code. All you have to do is alter 1 small line. Go check it out at my website!

Tris.

Paal Olstad released his new set Enemy Around The Corner. Though just one level – it’s a very good one. Lots of pushwalls, ghosts and bosses, plus a generous helping of regular guards. Requires the full version of Wolf3D. You can get it from Poet’s Wolfenstein Page.

September 2, 2000.

Here’s a new Wolfenstein 3D web site. It’s by Jake, and is called Little Snabes Little Wolfsite. There’s a new banner too.

Nate Smith’s Wolf3d World has finally gotten back online. It’s at a new URL, and it looks good. Well worth the wait!!

Harry Senior sent me this pic (below) from his forthcoming add-on Gates To Hell. Harry tells me he’s already completed five of the new levels.

August 30, 2000.

I posted the original 1991 shareware game Duke Nukem (261Kb) from Apogee/ID Software. It’s amazing how far we’ve come in just nine years!! And it works with my Windows 98. Here’s a pic…

The third (and final) part of John Bucksnort’s Wastelands Trilogy for Spear has been released. It’s called Journey To Evil. There are seven new levels, plus graphics and other changes. All files are included.

August 26, 2000.

David Gebler sent me a set of pics from his forthcoming add-on Biokrieg.

Spifferaneous’ Wolfenstein Empire has moved to a new url.

Pictures, sounds, downloads and links are among the features on this Wolfenstein 3D site. Here’s it’s new banner.

News from the SPEAR OF DESTINY FAN CLUB.This months best site award has gone to David Webler for his Wolfenstein 3D Insanity site. Well deserved, David.

John Hedgehog needs a Wolf3d Sound Creator.

Must be an expert with Wolf3d Sounds, Bosses, Guards etc..(But Not Changing Source Code) – And Must have a very good add-on, E-mail Your Resume to: mosco@renc.igs.net.

August 24, 2000.

The March is a new 8 level set with lots of new graphics, sounds and source code changes. By Bob Daum. All files are included.

Ben D. Harper’s tour (of his mind) is back on a new URL.

John Bucksnort has sent me a set of pics for his forthcoming Spear set Journey To Evil. He also sent me this info and pic on his latest project Beyond Tobruk:

Hi Brian – My new Wolf 3d project… Beyond Tobruk is making lots of progress, all graphics work and code changes are done… some graphics are as in the Wasteland series, but I have added NEW CEILING COLORS, SEAMLESS LEVEL FLOW FOR THE 21 LEVELS, AND EACH LEVEL NOW HAS NEW MUSIC. Here’s the new title screen… John.

As mentioned earlier, a number of links weren’t working in my links list. I’ve removed 9 links (including, sadly, the one to Ben Harper). More add-ons no longer available from those links have been added to my Fortune City site. They include W3d_cc1 and Temporary Insanity.

Adam Z. has released his first set Escape From SOD. It’s for the Spear demo. Both levels are new, plus there’s a number of Lost Episodes graphics. All files are included.

August 22, 2000.

There are a number of sites in my links list that aren’t working anymore. I will be checking these out at the weekend. I’ll update the list and post any sets no longer available. Wolf316 and Pots N’ Pans have already been posted on Fortune City.

August 20, 2000.

Here’s news on Japanstein by Paul and Peter. Paul has finished all the sprites while Peter has done the first ten levels. Paul tells me the set is still a long way from completion – maybe October.

John Bucksnort has released the second part of his Spear set Wastelands – Part Two. It has 7 new levels. All files are included. Here’s a message sent by John earlier today.

Hi Brian, here are some pics and info for Wastelands – Part 2. There are many new features in this set:

• A Browning Shotgun
• Graphics from The Lost Episodes and The Ultimate Doom
• Sounds from both Doom and The Lost Episodes

John.

You can see the rest of the pics here.

More news from Little Snabes Robocop4:The New Nazi War. The first level is done and work is starting on the source code changes. There will be:

• Cobra assault cannon with own ammo
• Stronger pistol with it’s own discreet ammo
• Sks assault rifle
• Blood splatters
• Health now 115%
• Ammo now 250
• Lighting effects
• Two episodes (19 levels – episode two won’t have a secret level)
• Changed music order
• New status bar
• No Death Cam

The Wolfenstein 3D Domain has a new URL.

My WolfBel3 set has just been updated again. The final Boss level has been completed, which makes 57 new levels. The remaining 3 levels are modified WolfBel levels. These are episode 6 – levels 7, 8 and secret. This will probably be the final update.

Here’s a message from Sam Feichter.

August 20, 2000

I have announced my triumphant return to the Wonderful World of Wolfenstein!!!!!

Now, I am working on levels for a new game, Gorenstein 2: Escape From Dr. Shmuck! This is the REAL Gorenstein 2. The other one is lost, because my Spear of Destiny game erased itself! If someone would like to pickup the project and rename it Gorenstein 3, I would appreciate it. In this one, it’s 2 episodes long!!

Here is a list of my new stuff:

• Gorenstein 2 (Graphics and 2 episodes)
• Ancient Egypt (Graphic Set)
• Freddystein (Graphic Set)
• Gorenstein Expansion Set (Level Set) Includes: Jungle Ambush, Forbidden Forest, and Death Fortress
• Technostein Level Upgrade to 1.1 (1 Episode)
• Techno-Bosses (Graphic Set) AND
• Weapon Set (Graphic Set)

Seeya on the Cutting Room Floor!

Sam Feichter

 

Thanks!

Sam

August 16, 2000.

Little Snabes has nearly finished the graphic mods for his forthcoming set Robocop.

John Bucksnort’s new nine level Spear set Wastelands – Part One is ready. There are some Lost Episodes graphics and other changes.

Another new level has been added to my WolfBel3set. This makes 56 new levels. All levels work OK, both on the PC and Acorn/Archimedes computers.

August 13, 2000.

A message from David Gebler…

Here is an update on the development of Biokrieg.

Biokrieg is currently at a 5-level demo beta being privately tested by my selected beta testers! It has more features than ever, including features found in DOOM, such as armour and separate ammo types for each weapon. The final version will contain 30 levels, so keep watching this space for more details of the release date.

-David Gebler, Webmaster, Wolf3D Insanity

-email smooth_nite@hotmail.com

August 10, 2000.

Here’s a set of pics from Tris’s set TFS. They may take a while to load as there’s 15 of them!!

John Bucksnort has also sent me a set of pics for his forthcoming Spear set Wastelands.

 

Here’s an award I received from the SPEAR OF DESTINY FAN CLUB. Thanks guys.

August 8, 2000.

Harry Senior’s new set The Abbey has five new well designed levels. There’s a number of new graphics and special effects. All files are included.

August 7, 2000.

John Bucksnort’s next Spear set is to be called Wastelands. John tells me he’s already done three levels for the set, which will contain some graphics from Lost Episodes. Here’s the title screen.

Here’s an update from David Gebler…

First thing, guys, is that Project: Biokrieg will be delayed, because I went and accidently wrote over the entire project’s source code with the original game code. This will delay beta testing by about 2 weeks. Sorry.

The second thing is, my site’s source code page Wolfenstein 3D Insanity has been majorly updated, and now includes what I believe is the biggest set of tutorials on the web. I’ll try and add more tutorials every week, so it will soon be your one-stop source for editing Wolf3D! Check it out!

-David Gebler, Webmaster, Wolf3D Insanity

-email smooth_nite@hotmail.com

A Touch Of Nazi is a compilation set which has 10 of John Bucksnort’s favourite levels. It includes a level from the original Wolf3D set, but most levels are new. There are some by John, some by Harry Senior, and a secret level which I made. The Boss level is especially difficult. There’s a lot of Spear graphics included and a changed title screen. All files are included.

I received this email today concerning a forthcoming add-on The Final Solution…

Dear Mr. Lowe,

I’m Tris, 14 years old, fond of all kinds of shooters (except for Quake. I really HATE Quake…), but especially like Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny.

I am programming the Source Code for Wolfenstein 3-D pretty well and found out a lot of cool stuff (which will be told on my website soon).

For a year now, I’ve been busy with an add-on for Wolfenstein 3-D. It’s called The Final Solution, concludes 22 levels (20 regular, 2 secret, seamless level flow) and has a whole load of new graphics and sounds, of which 80+ graphics are made by myself. No, not crappy walls with dumb paintings on them, but serious walls. For example, the hospital graphics are made by me. It took a week to get them right.

I had inspiration from a book concerning a military hospital in Dresden during the 2nd World War. I also re-drew the UberMutant.

In most add-ons, he (or it, what should I say?) looks bad with the Spear palette still on it (I mean that light purple color on the green part of his suit). I thought that it would be nice to make all colors match on his suit. So I made them match. You can’t see that the Spear palette was there, I worked those stripes away perfectly.

For some changes to the source code, read on.

• Read This! and End Text altered (had to rewrite WL_TEXT.C completely)
• Seamless level flow (thanks to Brian Rowan)
• Ratio reporting on every level (except for the 4 Boss levels)
• Dogs turned into guards, they shoot instead of biting now.
• Bosses from Spear (like Ubermutant) are as strong as they were in SOD.

The game takes place in Autumn 1942. A scientist called Dr. Jurgen Schabbs has found a way to resurrect dead soldiers. Your mission as B.J. Blazcowickz is to stop Schabbs and his already undead.

The whole story, which exists of 9 Read This! pages, will come along with the full version, which should be completed within 2 months.

Thanks for reading this and I hope you’ll reply.

 

Tris

Tris@yahoo.com

David Gebler has started a new Yahoo Wolf3D Source Code Club. The original club founded by Chris Chokan has been deleted.

August 4, 2000.

Here’s some info on John Bucksnort’s next set A Touch Of Nazi. It’ll be for Wolf3D, but will have lots of Spear graphics and some Spear bosses. John sent me this title screen. Other pics here.

Auferstehung has ten levels, with some new objects, actors and title screen. Please note – only the secret level is totally new, the others have been modified. All files included. By Will Jeffries. pics here.

Return To Death Castle has five well designed levels, plus new graphics, title screen etc. All files included. By Bobby Bucksnort.

Yet another new set is Wrath Of The Hedgehog: John Hedgehog’s Revenge. There are sixty new levels (made with the Randomizer, but all levels have been re-edited somewhat), with some graphics changes. Again, all files are included. By John Hedgehog.

The WolfGL and WolfTrap’s Source Code Tutorial pages have not been working for some time. I’ve deleted them from my links.

Here’s an email I was asked to post.

———————————————————————

-David Gebler, Webmaster, Wolfenstein 3D Insanity

-email smooth_nite@hotmail.com

• There will be a special WolfChat every Friday night @ 11p.m. (23:00) GMT (that’s the United Kingdom Timezone) – 6p.m. (18:00) EST (New York City time).
• Visitors will be free to chat to other members of the Wolf3D community about the game, or ask me (or anyone else) questions about the game and its source code.
• Visit the Wolf3D Insanity Chat Page to take part.
• NOTE: Your chat Username that is requested to chat can be anything – just use your name! No password is needed unless you are a member of the Wolf3D Insanity staff. Thanks.

 

-David Gebler, Webmaster, Wolf3D Insanity

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July 30, 2000.

Little Snabes sent me the following award. He tells me he’ll donate one every month.

Here’s some news I just received from David Gebler about his new project…

Project: Biokrieg

• Pronounced Bee-Oh-Kreeg
• Translates as BioWar

THE STORY

The ever notorious Dr. Schabbs is recovering from a disaster in his mainlab. The castle that his lab was in (Castle Schaffung) is now in ruins – and most of the guards are now hideous mutants. Dr. Schabbs hides at the top of his castle, desperately trying to contact Hitler’s generals. When he finally gets through, the generals are unwilling to help, but they do send a small group of guards to help him. These guards carry two chainguns each – but luckily, there aren’t many of them. You have been sent in to eliminate the guards, put an end to Dr. Schabbs, and destroy the castle. Can you do it? If you can’t, you’re doomed!

FEATURES –

• New graphics!
• New maps!
• Maximum Ammo is now 150!
• No cheats – you’re gonna have to play these levels properly!
• Hans Grosse is now seen more often as one of the guards sent in to help
• Schabbs, but he is much weaker!
• The big guards ALWAYS drop a chaingun, and a gold key!
• New object – the Booster Box, contains 25 ammo, 25% health and a machine gun!
• Seamless level progression!
• New weapons!
• New Enemies!
• Two New Keys!

Project: Biokrieg – COMING SOON!

• NOTE: Although Biokrieg is not currently at a beta stage, I do need to recruit my beta testers NOW. I need FIVE beta testers, and ONLY five. If you are interested, please e-mail me at smooth_nite@hotmail.com stating: Your name, e-mail address, Windows or DOS version, and your reasons for wanting to test Biokrieg. If you are selected, expect a reply within one week.

-David Gebler, Webmaster, Wolfenstein 3D Insanity

Maxim Zhukov is working on a new add-on called ZombieStein. Here’s some info and a pic which he emailed me recently:

• THE STORY SO FAR… in the year 2000, damned Neo-Nazi members found an ancient satanistic magic artefact and resurrected Hitler and his soldiers. Their base is within Castle Wolfenstein, which is a museum and cemetary now. You, with a group of soldiers, were sent there to stop neo-nazists, but all your group was killed. The exit is under control of neo-nazists and zombies. And you should do something to save your ass. Or zombies would eat it (he-he).

My WolfBel3 set has just been updated with 5 more new levels. There’s now 55 new levels in all. All levels work OK, both on the PC and Acorn/Archimedes computers.

July 23, 2000.

Bobby Bucksnort sent me a set of pics for his forthcoming set Return to Death Castle.

Assault On Hell has been released. This is a new 46 level set by Little Snabes. There’s new graphics and sounds and a changed title screen. Episode 2 has three levels by John Bucksnort, and three levels which I made. All files are included.

Here is the title screen for Bobby Bucksnort’s new set called Return To Death Castle. Bobby has three more levels to complete and the set will be released soon.

John Bucknort’s  Footsteps To Despair has been released. It’s John’s sixth and final set in the Tragedy At Istanbul series. There’s nine new levels, and lots of graphics and title screen changes.

The John Bucksnort Wolf 3D Page has been transferred to a new URL, and you can now download all his six Tragedy At Istanbul sets from there. There are a number of other downloads available too.

The Acorn/Archimedes version of Escape From SS Prison has been released. All ten levels now play OK on these computers.

David Gebler of the Wolfenstein 3D Insanity site gave some awards this week to other Wolf3D sites. Kenny got one, and I did too. Thanks David.

July 15, 2000.

Escape From SS Prison has ten new levels (which I made), and new graphics and sounds (done by Ronny Zeitz). Difficulty levels are similar to those in my WolfBel sets. All files are included. My apologies to Acorn/Archimedes users as the current version doesn’t work on this computer. An Acorn-compatible version will be issued soon.

Bob Daum released his new TC this week. It has ten new levels and a number of new graphics and sounds. The brown guards have now become Bob‘s Girls. It’s quite a difficult set to play. Bob is the co-author of the SR’s Wolf series.

The link to Slayer’s Mac section of the Wolfenstein Domain has been updated. He’s currently planning a new page on another server but for now, it’s at Wolfenstein Domain.

Also for Mac users, Slayer tells me there is a Wolf3D fan club at Wolfenmac – Yahoo Club.

There’s a new Wolf3D site out this week. It’s called The Wolfenstein 3D Lodge. It has a number of sections, including characters, add-ons, utilities, links and cheats.

Just heard news of another new site. This one is by David Gebler and is called Wolfenstein 3D Insanity. It has cheats, source code info, downloads and links.

Ben Blaufarb has released his new TC Tekkoudan. I’ve not been able to download this yet, but I’ll update here when I get the set.

July 8, 2000.

John Bucksnort sent me a set of pics for Footsteps To Despair. This will be the sixth and final set in the Tragedy At Istanbul series.

Operation Siege is a nine level set with lots of new graphics. By Celtor. All files are included.  This is a beta version and will be updated later.

Jake sent me this title screen for his forthcoming add-on Assault On Hell. This promises to be a very good set.

Schabbs Connection has been released. It’s the fifth set in John Bucksnort’s Tragedy At Istanbul series. Nine new levels. All files are included.

MH’s Wolf3d add-ons page has moved to a new URL. All of Merijn’s add-ons are available at the new site.

July 5, 2000.

Himmler’s SS is progressing well. Four levels have been completed and the set has many new features. Luke Straumann, the creator, sent me a set of pics. Look under June 13 for more info.

The following pics were taken before the ARMOR addition.

July 2, 2000.

John Bucksnort’s SPEAR OF DESTINY FAN CLUB has a new banner. Here it is:

Bobby Bucksnort has released his new add-on Nazi Ambush. The set is very fast moving, has 4 new well designed levels and a lot of new graphics. All files are included in the exe. If you like this set, Bobby has another one called Death Castle.

WolfMenu v1.2 is the latest version of a patch swapper program created for the DOS user who wants to launch all Wolf 3D patches and add-ons from one place text file info. It’s been done by Andy Nonymous. A special version, including some difficult to find shareware sets as examples, is also available as Wolfmens text file info. This new 1.2 version supports Wolf3D v1.0, and the registered Blake Stone set. There’s an upgrade and text file info for those who already have the 1.0 version.

KKK beta v1.0 is a three level set, including a secret level, plus lots of new graphics and sounds not found elsewhere. Source code changes to follow. All files are included. By M. Heijnen. 

Guy Brys emailed me to say his Guystein 2 set has a lot more levels. You can get them on Guy’s Home Page.

John Bucksnort sent me some pics for his fifth set in the Tragedy At Istanbul series. It’s called The Schabbs Connection. I will be doing the first secret level for this set during the weekend. John also sent me a new banner for his Wolf3d and Spear page, which has been updated recently.

June 23, 2000.

John Bucksnort has released his fourth set in the Tragedy At Istanbul series. It’s called The Bunker Files and has 6 well designed levels. All files are included in the self-extracting exe.

Paul and Peter C (who did Tankstein) are working on a new set called Japanstein. Here’s an email I received from Peter:

Hi Brian, I and Peter are working for a new add-on: Japanstein! We changed all the sprites with Japanese soldiers, sounds, guns. Paul.

Alexzx Arzola is also working on a new add-on for the registered set. It’s Alexstein2 – The Revenge Of BJ. There’s a beta version zip available which you can download from his page. The zip has new vgagraph and vswap files. If the vgagraph file doesn’t work with your version of Wolfenstein (it didn’t with mine) then use just the new vswap.

I came across this webpage by chance. It’s called A Wolfenstein Travelogue, and is a story about playing the original game. All six episodes are covered. Text only, but still good.

My apologies to everyone for the slow loading of some of my pages (and the unavailability of the ROTT page) during the past few days. Both Globalnet and Fortune City had server problems. Everything now appears to working OK again.

June 19, 2000.

The Bunker Files is to be the fourth set in John Bucksnort ‘s Tragedy At Istanbul series. John sent me a set of pics. The new title screen is shown opposite.

June 17, 2000.

Evil In Iron has ten well designed levels and some new graphics, plus title screen changes. This is the third set in the Tragedy At Istanbul series by John Bucksnort. All files are included.

Nazi Alert is a new 60 level set by Maxim Zhukov. This is Max’s third set. There are lots of new graphics. New sounds may come later.

June 13, 2000.

I received an email today from Luke Straumann about his latest add-on. Here’s what he said.

Hi I have a new set coming out it is called Himmler’s SS. It will have over 1000 lines of new code added to it. Some of the features are:

• AI bot
• breakable objects
• 5 or 6 weapons
• floor colors different for each level
• flame thrower or rocket launcher
• two pistols that take off two bullets when shooting
• chaingun turrents
• land mines

I will release a beta of Himmler’s SS in a few weeks, but until then here’s a screen shot. Luke.

Bobby Bucksnort has made two nicely designed levels for the Spear demo. It’s called Death Castle. All files are included. 

Cool Wolf has been updated for the third time. All first/second episode levels, and five from the third episode, are new. There’s even more graphics changes . By Marty Beltran.

June 9, 2000.

Peter Compton sent me a new banner for his Ultimate Wolf3D Site. Here it is:

Two shareware 1.4 Wolf 3D sets that were previously bundled with Andy Nonymous’s WolfMenu v1.0 patch swapper program are now available as separate zips. They are Run And Gun 3 (10 new levels by Cliff Drumeller), and Death Maps For Wolf 3-D (7 new levels by Chris Gregg). I find Run And Gun 3 the better of the two, but both sets are OK.

Paul Gibson recently found an old shareware 1.4 set, with ten new levels, called Dungeons Of Death. It’s fairly difficult to play, with lots of guards and many secret areas. All difficulty levels have the same number of guards. The creator is unknown.

Maxim Zhukov is making a set for the Spear demo. It’s called Nuclear Winter, and will have new graphics and a changed title screen. Here’s a pic from the first level that Max sent me:

WolfMenu v1.0 is a patch swapper program created for the DOS user who wants to launch all Wolf 3D patches and add-ons from one place text file info. It’s been done by Andy Nonymous. A special version, including some difficult to find shareware sets as examples, is also available as Wolfmens text file info.

Guystone is a new level (eleven new floors) for the registered Blake Stone set by Guy Brys. It’s available from Guy’s Home Page. I’ve been told this level is very good.

SR’s Wolf4 was released this week. It has ten new levels and more source code changes. It’s quite a difficult set with well designed levels.

A new copy of Operation: Knightwolf v1.9 has been posted. Paul Gibson (the creator) said that the original copy had a level one fault. Anyone downloading this set before June 6, please replace it with this one.

John Bucksnort sent me a set of pics for his new add-on Evil in Iron. This is John’s third set in his Tragedy At Istanbul series. Six sets are planned in total.

 

Paul Gibson will be providing in-depth reviews of Wolfenstein 3D add-ons at Wolfenstein Reviewed. There’s only one review at present – John Bucksnort’s The Bunker – but more will follow soon.

June 4, 2000.

(Win]Elchtest sent me a 3rd pic from his Wolf3D Project. This one shows a completed new wall design.

June 3, 2000

Johnny Groves has a new web site. It’s at the The Ultimate First Person Shooter. There are cheats and add-ons.

Maxim Zhukov has released a VSWAP for shareware Wolf 3d version 1.4. It’s called funpack and has a number of new sounds, plus some changed walls and object designs.

Cool Wolf has been updated by Marty Beltran and now has 17 new levels. Changes have also been made to the Vswap file.

The Death Key (Tragedy At Istanbul – Part II) has been released by John Bucksnort. This is a well designed fairly difficult set. As with the earlier set, all files are included in the exe. There’s a set of pics available.

Thomas Hubert tells me his RDK Software page has seen some major changes during the last week.

The Complete Wolfenstein 3D Strategy Guide has been released by The Master. This project took many months of hard work to complete. There are complete level walkthroughs for all levels, information for virtually everything in the game, and plenty more.

Scott Croneberger has a new page. It’s the Wolf3D Black Hole. It has source code info, plus add-ons and links. Scott’s new add-on Return Of Doctor Schabbs is available there to download. This is a very good 22 level set with new graphics and many source code changes. The set will eventually have 42 levels.  

May 27, 2000

John Bucksnort has released Tragedy At Istanbul. This is a ‘stand-alone’ Spear Of Destiny set. All files are included in the exe. There are 11 new levels (including the 1st secret level which I made), some new graphics and a new title screen. It’s a well designed, fairly difficult set. Some of the keys are in secret rooms. A set of pics have already been issued. More levels will be added later.

Will Jeffries emailed me this week with news of an add-on called Wolfenstein:Auferstehung. It’s got new graphics and heavily modified levels. There’s also a new health bar, and title page etc. It’s currently being beta-tested and should be released soon.

Adolf Hitler’s Revenge is a new 60 level add-on from Guten Tag Inc. There are some new graphics and sounds, plus a changed title screen. All files are included.

A couple more pages have gone, including Astro Core, and Dead Animals Smell Bad. The add-on previously on Dead Animals called Escape From The Labyrinth is still available from my main page.

Robert J. Daum sent me a ten level set called SR-BOB. Bob has helped Harry Senior with the SR’s Wolf series, including making many of the levels. This set is very difficult. Keys are often in hidden rooms, and you get the occasional Boss too. Some of the features used in the SR’s Wolf series (the black floor colour, for instance) have been retained in this set.

I checked out level 3 of Hitler’s Reign, after Jim Pope asked for help in finding the gold key. The room containing the key was not accessible so I’ve issued an update for the map files which solves the problem. Thanks Jim for pointing this out.

Operation: Knightwolf has been updated again (now v1.9). This set from Paul Gibson now has 10 new levels. More new graphics and sounds too. Paul welcomes any feedback from his set.

Barry Christian has released his sixty seamless level set The Road To Neuschwanstein. Though there are source code changes, the atmosphere of the original game is followed closely.

May 19, 2000

Three dossier type pages were lost this week. They were Redefining John Romero, and The Joystick Interviews (two pages – one on John Romero, and one on John Carmack). Several other sites have also been unavailable, including Brandon’s and Astro Core. I’ll check these again next week. Also, Kurt’s site has moved and has been renamed KFNetworks. It has many sections, including one for Wolfenstein 3D.

John Bucksnort sent me some new pics for his Tragedy At Istanbul set, which is for the full version of Spear. There are 6 more levels to do, and these will be completed soon. I am doing the 1st secret level and this is nearly done too. Alterations have also been made to some of the Boss actors.

My Favourite Wolf3D TC poll is still getting new votes. Totengraeber leads, but Beyond WolfII SE now shares second place with Western Wall 1.

Max Zhukov is working on a new set called Nazi Alert. This will have ten new levels and some new graphics. Here’s a pic that Max sent me:

Anyone who emailed me using the link on this page during the past week, please send the message again. I lost the info on 3 Wolf 3D related messages as they were on my old computer. The link on this page has now been updated. Thanks.

Send me E-mail! – Brian 

May 13, 2000

[Win]Elchtest sent me a 2nd pic of his new flag, for the Wolf3D Project I featured a couple weeks ago.

Assault on Auchfitz is a nine level set (no secret level) for shareware Wolf 3D 1.4, done by Little Snabes . The levels are well designed, and it’s a little more difficult to play than the original set, but there’s a lot of first aid and ammo lying around. All files are included.

Tragedy At Istanbul is a 15 level set (2 secret levels), being made by John Bucksnort, for the full version of Spear Of Destiny. The first level is completed. Here’s a set of pics that John sent me.

The Favourite Wolf3D TC poll on my main page is still getting new votes so I’m keeping it open for a while yet. Totengraeber is still ahead by one vote from Western Wall 1, which is in second place. Beyond Wolf II SE, and Buzzbomb are next.

Tim Vesper emailed me this week regarding his shareware add-on No Place To Hide. It seems the version I had on my page was not his original set. (Somebody had modified some of Tim’s graphics). I’ve now posted Tim’s original set and deleted the other one.

The Wolf 3D and Quake Club has a new logo. It’s pictured below. The club has gained a lot of new members recently and now has close to 70!

The Spear Of Destiny Fan Club has been started by John Bucksnort. It’s ‘A place for anyone who loves The Spear.’ Good luck with the new club, John!

May 10, 2000

John Bucksnort has released his new set The Bunker for the Spear demo. It’s self-extracting with all files included in the exe. From what I’ve played thus far, it looks like a very well designed set, and difficult to beat.

RDK Software has a new banner, shown below.

I just received this new pic, from [Win]Elchtest. It shows a new flag texture, for the Wolf3D Project I featured a couple weeks ago.

May 8, 2000

Paul and Peter C. have released Tankstein. There are 60 new levels, but many of them are fairly small in size. Each episode has a different theme. These are Tank, Winter, Afrika, Night, Labyrinth and Tankfinal. There are a number of new wall designs, a changed SS guard, and – of course – the tank! There’s a set of pics available.

There’s a new Wolf3D page out this week. It’s called Emperorlord Wolfpage and has downloads, links etc. Be sure to check out the info on the upcoming add-on Falcon’s Rebellion.

The Bunker is a new set for the Spear demo. John Bucksnort will be releasing it shortly, but meanwhile there’s a set of pics available.

May 5, 2000

John Bucksnort sent me his second set Gottspear. There are six new well designed levels, plus some new graphics. They are difficult, but not impossible to beat. Some keys are in hidden rooms. There’s a screenshot shown opposite, and a whole bunch are available here. John tells me he’s working on some Spear sets too. One is for shareware, and one for the full version.

Paul Gibson sent me the following info regarding his Operation: Knightwolf set.

• Brian- Here are some screenshots of new graphics I’m incorporating in Operation KnightWolf. The keys are actual scans of a real skeleton key, then colorized. The new wall texture (logs) is still kinda up in the air, although I think most will like it for a change. I’m working on more levels as we speak. Also, I’m doing more sound changes as well. I’ll send the updated add-on when it’s done. Thanks: Paul Gibson.

You can view Paul’s new pics here.

Viktor Sandberg sent me a new set of levels made by his younger brother. It’s called Adam Sandbergstein. There are six new levels, and they’re pretty good. I’m told the creator is just nine years old. See what you think! 

The 3rd set by Harry Senior has just been released. It’s called SR’s Wolf3, and has ten new levels, new graphics and source code changes. 

Paul and Peter have nearly finished their Tankstein add-on. It will have 60 new levels and many new graphics. And yes, it does have a new tank! There’s a pic, sent to me by Paul, shown opposite. The set should be ready for downloading in a few days. Watch this space!

Barry Christian has been working on a new TC. It’s called The Road To Neuschwanstein, and he sent me the following info about it:

The Road to Neuschwanstein(TRTN) will be a stand alone TC for Wolf3d with many source code changes, including seamless level flow, ratios on every level, new items, new keys, new guards, etc. There will be 60 levels that bring an atmosphere as close to the originals as you can get.

There’s more info on Barry’s Wolfenstein Levels Page, and a screenshot is shown below.

May 1, 2000

Well, a second update for this week (it’s a bank holiday here). Kenny has sent me some info on his latest project Operation: Ausfuhrung. Some of the new features are

• breakable items
• seamless level progression
• new weapons
• blood splatters

There’ll be a lot more to come!

Here’s a new website – The Wolfenstein Page Of Death. It’s by Little Snabes, and has add-ons, pics and some other info.

Now that Grossed Out is finished, John Bucksnort is working on a second shareware set. It’s called Gottspear and will have 5 new levels, plus the secret one. There’ll be some graphics changes too. He sent me a set of pics and one is shown below. 

April 29, 2000

The Wolfenstein Domain has moved. It also has a new layout, and a new banner!

Kenny has a new banner too. It’s for his Wolfenstein 3D Mansion.

My Favourite Wolf 3D TC poll now has over 90 votes. Western Wall 1 and Totengraeber are still neck and neck for the top place. Just behind are Nate’s Beyond Wolf 2 SE, and Buzzbomb. I’ll keep the poll open for a couple more weeks.

Luke Strauman has just released his second TC. It’s called Project Esiam, and has 10 new levels, some new graphics and source code changes.

Ronny Zeitz sent me his new VSWAP for Rotzi2. There are some new wall and object designs, plus a number of new sounds for the actors. I find the German Shepherd sounds particularly effective. Below is a screenshot showing the new Hans Grosse. I am working on some new levels for this set. The first one is completed, and a secret level is nearly done too.

‘The Sliver’ has a new bulletin board The Sliver’s UBB.

I just started a Rise Of the Triad page. After Wolfenstein 3D, I like this game the most. It didn’t achieve the success it deserved because it was overshadowed by Doom. There’s not a lot there yet, but I hope to develop it in the near future.

April 22, 2000

John Bucksnort has just released his first set of levels. They are for the shareware version of Wolfenstein 3D. The set is called Grossed Out. All levels have been changed, and I did the secret one. They’re fairly difficult to play. Some keys are in hidden rooms, and Hans Grosse appears on several of the levels (hence the title). John also has a new webpage.

I just received news of a new Wolf3D Project which will be based on the Quake 3 engine. As you’d expect, the quality of the maps is outstanding.

Viktor Sandberg sent me a new banner for Arena Productions.

And there’s one for Wolfenstein ARENA!! too.

Viktor also sent me this info regarding the new add-on Fear Of The Dark?

Rod is working on a NEW add-on called Fear Of The DARK?, and he gets pretty much help from ME. There’s just the maps left to do. We don’t know yet if there’s going to be source code changes in it. But it will have 30 levels and as many new graphics as a TC.

We hope it will be out 5th may (the birthday of wolfenstein 3d(full version).

Rod’s email address is rod@emaila.nu

I’m currently working on a web-page for AP too.

-Viktor

April 16, 2000

Patch-O-Matic. This is not new, but I only just downloaded it. For Windows users, this download offers an ideal way to get 6 of the best S/ware sets in one ZIP. You get the original game included too, and it’s menu driven. The sets are Halloween, Alien Wolf, Pacman/Demon Clowns, Xmas Wolf, Lost Episodes and Barneystein. Check it out on Mike’s Wolfenstein 3-D Page.

Guy Brys has just released his new add-on called Guystein2. This is a sequel to his first set. There are twenty more levels with 144 guards on each one (solving a puzzle gives you the 2nd ten). Find it on Guy’s Home Page.

Two new web pages have surfaced since my last update. The first is RDK Software. This has Wolf 3D add-ons, Starcraft maps etc, and is by Thomas Hubert. The other is Wolf3-D Headquarters, and includes the story of Wolf3D, other info and downloads .

I just received an email from Luke Strauman regarding Project Esiam. Here it is:

Hello I have some information on Project Esiam. Lighting effect, level ending item and a fifth weapon were added. I have decided not to put the seamless level progression in the game. Levels 1-10 are done. Things I have left to do: shot gun ammo and 20 more levels.

April 1, 2000

Spacestein now has three new levels. I issued an update to this set after only one extra level as it will be the last for a while. Thomas Hubert will be making some more levels, but I am now concentrating on levels for Future Of Nazi and Rotzi 2. For those who have an earlier version, a (maps only) update is available here. Both updates include a doc file listing most of the new wall definitions.

After 41 votes, my Favourite Wolf 3D TC poll has given Totengraeber a clear lead. Western Wall I is second, with Buzzbomb third. There are eleven TC’s listed and each one now has at least one vote.

Operation: Knightwolf (now v1.7) has been updated. This new version has 7 new levels (6 regular, one secret) from Paul Gibson. More new graphics and sounds too. Find it here.

• Paul welcomes any feedback from his set – email him here.

March 24, 2000

Thomas Hubert sent me his latest set Terror Returns. I’ve only had a quick look thus far, but he’s put a lot of effort into the levels this time.

There’s a new Favourite Wolf3D TC poll on my main page. I took the old one off because it seems you could vote more than once. Somebody pushed up the vote for Buzzbomb to 27 in one day! Early returns from the new one give the lead to Western Wall I, with Buzzbomb and Totengraeber equal second.

I started the Arena Productions club on Yahoo. (The idea actually came from Viggo Sandberg). The aims of AP were outlined last week, and it will give members a place to talk and post messages.

Luke Strauman, the creator of Operation Buzzbomb, emailed me yesterday. Seems he was unaware until recently of the bad publicity surrounding the set. Just to put the record straight, he said he did have permission to use graphics from the WolfenDOOM sets. He didn’t copy them from Nate’s BWII – which was the main criticism – it’s just that Nate’s set came out first.

Anyways, Luke’s got a new set coming out soon. It’s called Project Esiam and there’s a set of pics available. Take a look, I doubt if anyone can accuse him of stealing graphics this time!

I came across a number of shareware Wolf 3D add-ons last week. Some of them are not new but it’s the first time I’ve seen them. One is called Wolfenplum. It uses version 1.4, but all the required files are included in the zip.

Four other sets require s/ware version 1.0, and are listed on the Games From The God website. They are

• The Final Assault
• The Crumbling Reich (Parts 1 and 2)
• Trial By Fire

One more set, which I posted, is Spacestein. It’s for the full version, and has new graphics and sounds by Maxim Zhukov. It has 2 levels which I made. Anyone who already downloaded an earlier one level version of this set can get a 2 level update.

March 17, 2000

This page has become pretty large and I will be putting a lot of the earlier news into a separate page. Anyways, for now, on with the news to date.

There’s yet another (the 4th!) Yahoo Wolf 3D Club. This time, it’s The Limited Wolf 3D Club.

I finally posted Future Of Nazi by Maxim Zhukov. This has the new VSWAP, with a lot of new graphics, and one new level which I made.

Barry Christie has a new banner for his page. Here it is!

Paal Olstad released Wolf-Extra II. The set, which needs the full version of Spear, can be found on Poet’s Wolfenstein Page. There’s a hint manual available too.

Viggo_Sandberg has published his awards.

Viktor Sandberg has also set up Arena Productions. Well, this is a team who makes wolfenstein 3d add-ons.

In Arena Productions, you can work on your own project BUT if you need help with graphics, maps, beta testers or source code you can

ask a member!

RULES

1. A guy in Arena Productions (AP) ALWAYS help other guys in AP.

2. You don’t need to quit your own project, but you need to tell all about it for the other guys in AP if they want.

A member of AP can NOT tell about another guys add-on until it almost has been released (if the creator of the add-on tells you that you can’t do it).

The members of AP now is:

Viktor Sandberg (me), Finn (von_finn), kenny, scott croneberger AND stressed

-Viktor

Send me E-mail! Viktor.Sandberg@emaila.nu 

March 11, 2000

Thomas Hubert has been working on some new levels for Blake Stone. Here’s a pic he sent me.

The full version of Ken’s Labyrinth is now available free on Ken Silverman’s Official Home Page. There’s a number of other interesting downloads there too.

Ben Blaufarb now has a home page. He has a number of wall textures and sprites you can download for your own use on Astro Core.

Maxim Zhukov sent me a pic of Future of Nazi. Here it is. I’ll be posting the set, with the first level done, in a few days. Maxim has asked if anyone would like to make some levels for this set. The VSWAP has a large number of interesting wall designs. Please contact him on maxzhuk@yahoo.com if you want to help out. There will be a sequel called Spacestein.

There’s a new Wolf 3D website at The Ultimate Wolfenstein 3-D Site. It has info, downloads etc. The links section is still under construction. It’s by Peter Compton.

March 4, 2000

Maxim Zhukov is continuing with his Future of Nazi project. I’ve made a start on helping him with the new levels ( just one level, thus far – though Maxim has done some others). Many changes have already been made to the graphics.

Operation: Knightwolf has five new levels (4 regular, one secret). There’s some new graphics and sounds too. It was done by Paul Gibson. 

Thomas Hubert has just set up a news page. This is the start of a new Wolf 3D site. It’s at Wolf3d News.

Marty Beltran recently sent me updates for his Cool Wolf set. All the 1st episode, and some of the 2nd one, have new levels. There’s also a number of modified graphics and sounds.

February 26, 2000

Some late news from Kenny of The Wolfenstein 3D Mansion. I’ve just won his Best Site award. Here it is.

Thomas Hubert tells me he’s nearly finished his current add-on Terror Returns. Maps are 99 per cent done, and the graphics are finished. After a little more testing it’ll be handed over to Kurt for some source code changes. Screenshots should be coming in a few days.

I put up the complete set of maps – in GIF form – for the Spear set, including the Lost Episodes. Each map can be viewed individually, and there are 3 ZIP’s available, containing all the GIF’s for each episode. 

Kenny has posted a new set of Spear maps too! They’re on his new Spear of Destiny page.

Re the Future of Nazi add-on, I will be helping Maxim Zhukov with some of his levels. More news about this when I have it.

This site has a new banner. Use it if you want, in your links.

Harry Senior sent me his SR’s Wolf2 set. There are ten more levels and the graphics are as used previously. It’s another very good set! Two Screenshots are available.

There’s been a sharp reduction in the number of messages posted on the Wolfenstein 3D Fan Club recently. There have been periods of very slow loading etc, but it still gets 9 or 10 members visiting every day. So come on guys – post more messages!!

February 19, 2000

I just received this email from Maxim Zhukov

Hello! Here is a news for Your Wolfenstein 3D page : I am making an addon “Future of Nazi”. There already is public-alpha. But the project is still not finished and needs some cool level editors. Best regards, MadMax.

Here’s a screenshot:

No Place To Hide has ten very large levels, plus a lot of modified graphics (including many from Lost Episodes). Very difficult, but not impossible to beat. Although this set is shareware, all the required files are included in the ZIP. Get it from Shawn Moseley’s Wolf 3D Page. 

My WolfBel3 has just been updated and now has 50 new levels. A couple of minor bugs have been removed – such as a blocked passage on episode 1 level 8 when played on a PC. 

The Wolfenstein 3D Hideout Fan Club has been started by Kenny. It has 13 new members already. He has a new web page too. It’s at The Wolfenstein 3D Mansion. There are links, add-ons and much more.

The Wolfenstein Domain has moved from Xoom. Hope it all goes well guys!

February 13, 2000

Harry Senior sent me a new set called SR’s Wolf. He tells me both Nate and Spiff have helped out here so it’s just gotta be good! There are 10 new levels, plus a lot of new graphics! All the required files are included in the ZIP. Here’s a screenshot. I posted several others on the Wolf 3D and Quake Club.

Matt also sent me a set with 10 new levels (shareware – this time) called Wolf_2. This is an old set, but I’ve not seen it before. The style is similar to the original game, but it’s more difficult to play. Although it’s version 1.1, all the required files are included in the ZIP.

Thomas Hubert has issued some info about his new add-on. It’s to be called Terror Returns, and here are some of its features:

• 10 levels set into 4 areas
• new graphics
• source code changes
• wicked story

February 8, 2000

Kurt became the 50th member of the Wolf 3D and Quake Club. Thanks Kurt for joining! The club has seen several other new members join during the past few weeks, and I welcome these too. The Wolfenstein 3D Fan Club is also doing well following its relaunch. It now has 32 members, with new ones joining most days.

I updated the cheats section on my Extras page, and added Wolfenstein Plus to the Site Search facility. Thanks to Ben for agreeing to this.

We lost a page this week – Jim’s Wolf3D/SoD Page – but we gained one too. It’s called Guy’s Home Page, and is by Guy Brys.

There’s a Wolf3D section with an add-on to download called Guystein. There’s a screenshot on the right. This set has 60 very large new levels, plus some changed graphics. There are no bosses but most levels have the maximum 149 guards. You only get 30 levels at first though (eps. 3 thru 5), for you have to email Guy for the code to unlock a 2nd zip for the other 30 levels.

I posted an updated version of WolfBel3. There’s now 46 new levels. Thomas Hubert did episode 5 level 5. Thanks Thomas – it’s a very good level!

January 30, 2000

It’s been a while! There’s a new Wolf3D site at Greg’s Wolfenstein 3d Page. It has info on the game, plus a number of links. News too, of Greg’s forthcoming add-on. It’s called Project Einmacht.

Spifferaneous released his new add-on Western Wall I . It has 30 new levels and doesn’t need the registered set to play. There are a lot of graphics and source code changes too. A very well designed set. There’s a screenshot from the first level shown right.

Another new set is Golden Eye. It comes from Robb, of Baltimore. This is a new 4 level set (which requires the full version). This set has very extensive, and well designed levels. Most levels have keys placed in secret areas and some of these are well hidden. If you like this set, please let Robb know as it may encourage him to do some more.

Nate Smith is working on a new add-on called Spetsnaz. This promises to be a very good TC, considering Nate’s past output. Thomas Hubert is doing one too. This will have ten new levels, source code and graphics changes. More news on this when I have it.

The Wolfenstein 3D Fan Club was closed down by Yahoo a few days ago. Rumours are still circulating about it, but it seems that somebody posted some naughty pics there. My commiserations to Dave, who worked so hard to get this club to be the success that it was. Nate Smith has set up Wolfenstein 3D Fan Club in it’s place. Thanks Nate, hope this goes well.

January 15, 2000

The Wolf 3D and Quake Club has a new logo. Thomas Hubert, the club founder, tells me that the original one was looking a little out of date. Here it is…

By chance, I discovered a set of graphics called Mortal Kombat for the Wolfenstein 3D full version. They date from 1992!!! The blue SS and undead guards have been totally changed (apart from the sounds), and so have most of the bosses. Some walls and objects have been changed too, particularly the wall portraits. As there were no new levels, I added those from my WolfBel2 set. Here’s a screenshot.

I put a link to Xenu’s Link Sleuth. I find it useful for checking broken links. It checks external links too, and it’s free.

Thomas Hubert announced his awards for Best Page for Wolfenstein 3D. Here are the results:

• 1: Mr Lowes Wolf3d page- although it does not look as pretty as some other pages, no other sites have as many add-ons or links.
• 2: BJ’s Hide Out- for sure the best looking wolf page on the net, it would have got 1st, but it has barely any info, only 5 add-ons, and old links.
• 3: The Wolf3d Bunker- so much great info on the source code! I don’t think you can get that much info any place else.
• Honourable Mention: Spifferaneous Wolf3-D Empire- Spiff went through a lot, his first page was taken down, his doom page was taken down as well, and now he has this. It is good. And here it gets an award.

January 8, 2000

I posted Wolfenstein In Sweden. This is shareware and has 4 different map sets with one modified graphics set. The site this was on has disappeared.

THE sliver now has his own domain, and his page has been transferred to it. He is currently working on a new add-ons section. He also announced his Site of the Month award for January, and this time it was given to the Wolfenstein 3-D Domain. Well deserved!

January 1, 2000

Another new year. Here’s hoping it goes well for everyone. During the week, Kurt released his new TC Return To Wolfenstein. There are twenty new levels, plus some graphics and source code changes.