The young Id Software team intended "Grelminar" to be the lich and "Nemesis" the guy-to-be-rescued. Later on in the retail release the names got swapped by Softdisk.
More info can be found on Romero's blog:
rome.ro/news/2017/8/...

4/4

There are only a few differences between the Gamer's Edge version and the Catacomb 3-D retail version. The most obvious one is that the names of the final boss and the guy-to-be-rescued are swapped.

3/4

The Catacombs Pack from GOG contains the retail release of Catacomb 3-D, but the Catacomb 3-D Big Box ships with a different version. It's the initial v1.00 release, exactly as how it was created by Id Software in November 1991 for the Gamer's Edge disk magazine.

2/4

I started working on the CatacombGL source port again. In the coming months I would like to get rid of the "beta" tag and work towards a proper version 1.0.0.

Currently I'm working on a fun feature: support for the Catacomb 3-D Big Box as published by @johnromero.bsky.social in 2024.

🧵 1/4

if you see this post eggs 🥚

Programming is fun, but I can also enjoy some #doom mapping. Now available on idgames is the community megawad "Embryo", where the maps get smaller as you go!

Pictured maps are by me, @signaturereverie.bsky.social, @whybmonotacrab.bsky.social and ViolentBeetle.

www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

The first mission of Far Cry (2004)

Attention Mac users: it is now possible to compile and run CatacombGL on MacOS!

To be honest, I don't have any Apple hardware myself. However, Github user LifeKILLED managed to get it working. He was kind enough to submit his work via a pull request and share a screenshot.

I love the overall vibe in the #BioMenaceRemastered Demo, which I would describe as "cute EGA city meets apocalypse".

CatacombGL 0.5.7 is released!

The first version of the new year is unfortunately a much needed hot-fix. In the previous version I accidently introduced a crash when taking certain exit portals. The crash report from Github user DEA1HYT is much appreciated.

github.com/ArnoAnsems/C...

The Catacomb Abyss 3D

CatacombGL 0.5.6 is released!

This update adds an option to place the camera view a bit off-center, as was seen in the original DOS games.
Special thanks to NY00123, author of the ReflectionHLE source port, for helping out with fixing a sound FX bug.

github.com/ArnoAnsems/C...

YEAH !!

Same here, no internet. That's why a CD-ROM and a step-by-step paper tutorial was a blessing. The level editor DEU would be considered very rough by todays standards, but luckily at that time I didn't know any better. It was pure magic.

The atmosphere of my source port.
The ported game is Catacomb 3-D by id Software.

CatacombGL is a Windows/Linux source port with OpenGL graphics for the Catacomb 3D games.
Version 0.5.5 was released in August and brought various small features and fixes.
github.com/ArnoAnsems/C...