From: fpv@xymph.iaf.nl (Frans P. de Vries) Subject: The idgames Archive hits 1 Gigabyte Newsgroups: rec.games.computer.doom.announce,rec.games.computer.doom.misc,rec.games.computer.quake.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.games.doom Followup-To: rec.games.computer.doom.misc Date: 23 Jun 1996 23:58:26 +0100 Keywords: idgames archive milestone One DOOMed Space Marine, and the Terror He Spawned The idgames Archive hits 1 Gigabyte California, June 23, 1996--A remarkable point in the history of games was reached today: the primary Internet FTP archive of add-ons for the wildly popular 3D action games DOOM, Heretic, Hexen and Strife (all based on the DOOM-technology) reached the 1 Gigabyte milestone. This archive, to be found at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames/ but commonly known as just "ftp.cdrom.com", carries the collective results of over two years of developing, hacking, designing, programming and building add-ons by game fans throughout the Internet community. No other game family has spawned such a large collection of add-ons, and it still keeps on growing. And what could be more appropriate than this event coinciding with, and being invoked by, the release of Quake shareware, id's next game? :) ()() A short history of the events leading up the current milestone: Dec 93 - DOOM is released; add-ons appear at various FTP sites, such as wuarchive.wustl.edu and ftp.uwp.edu. Mar 94 - First DOOM FTP archive at ocf.unt.edu, maintained by Barry Bloom. May 94 - UNT administrator pulls plug on ocf.unt.edu as DOOM FTP site. Backup infant2.sphs.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) now becomes primary. Nov 94 - Infant2 goes belly-up. ftp.orst.edu is temporary DOOM FTP site. Dec 94 - Walnut Creek (ftp.cdrom.com) becomes primary DOOM FTP site and joost schuur takes over maintenance. May 95 - Jeff joins to maintain the 'lmps' section; the archive is 400 MB Dec 95 - Frans joins after he can't take the 600+ files backlog in oldnewstuff anymore ;) Jun 96 - The cleaned-up archive makes the 1 Gigabyte watermark at the instant Quake shareware is released. ()() What is the current contents of the archive? This listing shows the amount of Kbytes occupied by each directory in the archive (some subtrees snipped for brevity): 6052 deathmatch 3515 docs 35047 graphics 20918 idstuff/doom 2183 idstuff/doom2 153 idstuff/dwango 9054 idstuff/heretic 23180 idstuff/hexen 6611 idstuff/idsirs 1866 idstuff/imagery 10 idstuff/misc 24212 idstuff/quake 988 idstuff/source 89177 idstuff 3 incoming 19310 levels/doom/deathmatch 137353 levels/doom 170949 levels/doom2/deathmatch 348242 levels/doom2 5444 levels/heretic/deathmatch 15565 levels/heretic 3551 levels/hexen/deathmatch 11061 levels/hexen 592 levels/reviews 1 levels/strife 512821 levels 13245 lmps/COMPET-N 1899 lmps/H2HMud 19010 lmps/dht-exams 12 lmps/dmk 2517 lmps/doom 22633 lmps/doom2 4 lmps/forms 5 lmps/heretic 17 lmps/hexen 462 lmps/incoming 2 lmps/newstuff 59809 lmps 1553 misc 15732 music 12989 newstuff 9806 roguestuff 107056 sounds 5654 themes/TeamTNT 32298 themes/aliens 4186 themes/apt 4046 themes/barney 12140 themes/bnb 1537 themes/chook 5009 themes/drwho 7374 themes/mm 3546 themes/omf 6101 themes/simpsons 4858 themes/startrek 20631 themes/starwars 3718 themes/twc 3604 themes/university 2259 themes/wtf 25329 themes/x-rated 4019 themes/xmas 146311 themes 7359 utils/exe_edit/patches 8350 utils/exe_edit 10162 utils/frontends 3524 utils/graphics_edit 18976 utils/level_edit 3456 utils/misc 1041 utils/network 687 utils/randomizers 1444 utils/save_edit 2561 utils/serial 1443 utils/sound_edit 6202 utils/unix 2215 utils/wad_tools 60063 utils 1060722 . The total number of files in the archive is 13962. ()() Of special interest might be the number of level files (left columns) and the total number of maps in those files (right columns): CountLevels v2.0, files & maps in the idgames/levels tree (c) jun '96 by FPV (fpv@xymph.iaf.nl) Doom Doom 2 Heretic Hexen Regular ========================================================== ******* 0-9 24 57 0-9 25 48 0-9 2 2 0-9 0 0 a-c 169 371 a-c 216 430 a-c 10 16 a-c 8 13 d-f 135 375 d-f 161 369 d-f 8 28 d-f 1 1 g-i 93 149 g-i 93 148 g-i 25 34 g-i 24 34 j-l 54 82 j-l 70 124 j-l 4 6 j-l 3 17 m-o 96 231 m-o 126 293 m-o 10 26 m-o 2 2 p-r 81 122 p-r 86 180 p-r 9 13 p-r 0 0 s-u 172 259 s-u 176 332 s-u 12 18 s-u 1 2 v-z 47 181 v-z 43 56 v-z 3 3 v-z 1 6 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 871 1827 996 1980 83 146 40 75 1990 4028 (grand) Doom Doom 2 Heretic Hexen DeathMatch ========================================================== ********** 0-9 9 17 0-9 49 284 0-9 1 1 0-9 0 0 a-c 50 77 a-c 303 581 a-c 24 25 a-c 5 14 d-f 60 112 d-f 315 819 d-f 16 28 d-f 9 9 g-i 18 27 g-i 197 434 g-i 29 46 g-i 48 55 j-l 31 35 j-l 110 260 j-l 7 10 j-l 4 4 m-o 30 31 m-o 165 250 m-o 6 6 m-o 2 2 p-r 27 77 p-r 144 336 p-r 14 18 p-r 2 7 s-u 45 65 s-u 246 416 s-u 12 12 s-u 6 21 v-z 13 45 v-z 89 165 v-z 9 9 v-z 2 2 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 283 486 1618 3545 118 155 78 114 2097 4300 (grand) ()() But perhaps most impressive is the sheer volume of data that is being transferred in and out of the archive each month: Month Files Megabytes ============================================= August 1995 892,560 108,557 September 747,047 99,521 October 669,028 184,132 November 802,803 161,312 December 710,606 125,095 January 1996 770,969 130,160 February 712,700 151,331 March 969,110 227,530 April 803,054 192,327 May 687,285 156,299 ()() In closing, the archive maintainers would like to thank: - Walnut Creek for their support and the disk space to keep the archive - All FTP sites around the globe that mirror the archive - id Software, Raven Software and Rogue Entertainment for developing the games we all enjoy so much - All Doom/Heretic/Hexen/Strife fans that made this archive into what it is today, and who keep us from having a life ;-) We hope to continue this service, and expand it with the idgames2 archive. -- jschuur@ftp.cdrom.com (joost schuur) lmps@ftp.cdrom.com (Jeff Makaiwi) fpv@ftp.cdrom.com (Frans P. de Vries)