John Romero Releases New Doom Episode 'Sigil 2', Appears With John Carmack on Twitch

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Doom, both John Romero and John Carmack are appearing now on a special 30th anniversary stream on Twitch. (Right now they're talking about people who got into professional networking careers because of what they'd learned from setting up multiplayer deathmatches...)

And earlier this morning, Romero shocked the gaming world by posting six words on X.

"Free WAD for SIGIL II is up"

The official page for the long-awaited new Doom episode promises a 2 megabyte file "packed with some hardcore classic DOOM punishment — beware of Ultra-Violence mode!" There's nine new maps with names like "Wrathful Reckoning" and "Vengeance Unleashed". And the site is also selling an upgrade with a THORR soundtrack — priced at €6.66 — along with t-shirts, boxed editions of the original game Sigil, and a "Megawad Beast Box" that's "individually numbered and signed personally by John Romero and featuring the artwork of Christopher Lovell" (including a signed art print).

Besides sundry extras including a t-shirt, stickers, and a Sigil-themed coin, it also comes with a pewter statue of John Romero's head on a spike...

Not the most compatible WAD

[Mononymous]

It appears to make PrBoom+ segfault. The first Sigil didn't do that.

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[serviscope_minor]

Bug in prboom I guess? It's vanilla compatible, right?

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[Anonymous Coward]

More importantly, do we get to rip Carmack's head off this time, place it on a spike, and fill his writhing mouth with cum?

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[Anonymous Coward]

You're going to have to extract the wad before blowing it on him, but why not?

Re: Not the most compatible WAD

[Provocateur]

Who's, first time I've seen a reference to American Psycho here in these posts. Not the movie

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[KiloByte]

Any segfault other than due to environmental reasons (OOM, hardware error) is a bug in the program in question, full stop. You have either data or a script crash the interpreter -- because that's what a Doom engine is.

A misbehaviour/incompatibility could be blamed on either side, but that's not the case here.

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[black3d]

Naw, Sigil isn't vanilla compatible. It needs a modern source port of Doom to run. There are modified versions of Doom for DOS which will run it, and versions of the wad which have been modified to run in DOS, most notably this one which was given a seal-of-approval by Romero himself. https://www.doomworld.com/foru... [doomworld.com]

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[cayenne8]

Naw, Sigil isn't vanilla compatible. It needs a modern source port of Doom to run. There are modified versions of Doom for DOS which will run it, and versions of the wad which have been modified to run in DOS,

Is there a way to run Doom on OSX?

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[wildstoo]

Is... is this a joke?

Yes, there are Apple ports of Doom. There's even native Apple Silicon binaries floating around. Google it.

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[serviscope_minor]

Ah right visplanes and all that shit. Sounds like it's limit removing only, none of the boom linedefs and whatnot.

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[wildstoo]

It was tested with and is recommended to be run with GZDoom. Apparently nobody reads readme files anymore, so here's a relevant section:

There are some players who would like to use a more strict, old-school port of DOOM like PRBOOM+ or CRISPY DOOM, or the Eternity Engine. SIGIL II was not made for strict vanilla-compatible DOOM ports, but it may work with some of them. I tried to be as compatible as I could without creating an entirely new WAD. Some of these source ports may be updated to work with SIGIL II.

"X"

[nocoiner]

by posting six words on X

Yeah, whatever. It's called Twitter.

But hey, if the Muskrat wants to change things to useless names for no reason, then I'll imitate him by calling his car company "muskraTmobiles", and refer to him by the first name I've now given him: Japetto.

MOD GP UP!!!

[nocoiner]

Some anonymous coward said:

You, sir, are a fool and should be removed from th' gene pool!

Whatever, you spineless turd.

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[SneedFeedAndSeed]

Just rename the icon bro idk

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[Anonymous Coward]

and refer to him by the first name I've now given him: Japetto.

If you really wanted to piss Musk off, say 'them' instead of 'him'.

Or better yet: "it".

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[nocoiner]

and refer to him by the first name I've now given him: Japetto.

If you really wanted to piss Musk off, say 'them' instead of 'him'.

Or better yet: "it".

That would've triggered far too many Muskrat fanboys here and derailed the discussion further.

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[sg_oneill]

A friend of mine got so pissed off at musk messing the site up he renamed his account "This is why Grimes left you" and would reply to his every post with "This is why Grimes left you". When he eventually got banned (Took a while) , it wasnt just an account ban, his entire company IP range got IP banned, which took some explaining w/ the boss lol.

Either way, he achieved what he set out to;- absolutely light his account on fire and burn it so hard no recovery was possible.

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[sg_oneill]

"X" has to be the most unsucessful rebranding in modern memory. I cant think of anyone who actually calls it that.

Not that it matters much. That company aint gonna be around in a year from now the way things are going.

That's seven words.

[davehensley]

That's seven words.

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[Motleypuss]

OH YES! *nodding bulldog animatronic in the back of a car meme*