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Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:35 pm
by W1D3A55
Am I really? For those that don't know, Doom Connector is really just like Doomseeker and IDE, except setting up/joining servers isn't a hassle (I've always had that issue with those 2 programs). It also supports many popular ports like Skulltag/Zandromum, Zdoom, GZdoom, and many others.

Anyways, Am I seriously the only one that uses this program? Because it feels like I can't be the only one with issues joining using those other programs.

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:50 pm
by Watermelon
Yes
Pretty much

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:08 pm
by one_Two
DC is brilliant and I wish it was used more (not sure if it's updated for zandro yet) it's also good for making servers outside of the master server (I think?). But when hardly anyone uses it it seems a bit redundant.

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:20 pm
by W1D3A55
one_Two wrote: DC is brilliant and I wish it was used more (not sure if it's updated for zandro yet) it's also good for making servers outside of the master server (I think?). But when hardly anyone uses it it seems a bit redundant.
You can use it for Zandronum, but oddly you have to rename zandronum as skulltag and setup the skulltag settings in order to make it work.

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:46 pm
by Aqua Kitty
If DC supports configurations just modify the Skulltag config for Zandronum.

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:52 pm
by Catastrophe
yes...

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:10 am
by Medicris
Yeah, pretty much. Internal drama pretty much killed it as far as I've heard.

Not that I know if it's true or not.

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:06 pm
by someoneelse
I love it has a place for seeking partners for ZSNES games, and yeah, also Zdoom. But, I idled there a bit, tried to make rooms, but only seen single people seeming only seeking games with previously appointmened friends.
Well, it's pretty dead, but with some effort it'd could have a second youth?

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:15 pm
by Ivan
Why bother with it? Just use IDE, it does it all.

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:34 pm
by one_Two
someoneelse wrote: I love it has a place for seeking partners for ZSNES games, and yeah, also Zdoom. But, I idled there a bit, tried to make rooms, but only seen single people seeming only seeking games with previously appointmened friends.
Well, it's pretty dead, but with some effort it'd could have a second youth?
You're right. If I recall it has died a come back several times.

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:07 pm
by Marcaek
I wasn't around for orig DC, but Skulltag Online and the first incarnation of Player Connector were awesome. Unfortunately IDE and Doomseeker do almost everything it does so nobody bothers with it anymore.

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:35 pm
by HeX9109
Doom Connector a dead horse of the past that people insist they continue beating.

Really though, IRC built into Launchers just works so much better these days. Doom Connector was so convoluted with so much crap going on it turned me off and wondered how anyone could stand it.

plus it doesn't support odamex

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:04 am
by someoneelse
Ivan wrote: Why bother with it? Just use IDE, it does it all.
As I mentioned, ZSNES.
Also, Legacy which has some cool wads and options exclusive for it (playing with gravity is frankly more fun then in Zdoom-based source ports, setting time for respawning items, cool effects, split screen for poor people :D), and Zdoom (some bleeding-edge mods, VOXELS!!!!111!!!). So nope, I can see cool possibilities for that.

Well, since it can hide to tray and only uses 14MB RAM, I guess I'll idle there a bit and see if anything interesting will happen.

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:57 am
by StrikerMan780
I liked Doom/Player connector for the fact that it was a great launcher for multiple games/ports. The buddy and lobby systems were nice as well.

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:54 pm
by Spottswoode
I still use Doom connector for (g)zdoom servers. The lobby itself is pretty much dead as the 70s. I will make some more use of it in the future (maybe?) if I ever finish my project.

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 5:05 am
by Tux
You Are The Only One Who Starts Every Word With A Capital Letter.
Also, I do not use DC because it simply does not work.
pro coding[/size]

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:45 am
by Empyre
Tux wrote: You Are The Only One Who Starts Every Word With A Capital Letter.
Also, I do not use DC because it simply does not work.
pro coding[/size]
The OP doesn't have every word capitalized. Only the thread title is that way, which is how we were taught in school to do titles.

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 5:59 pm
by Ænima
Wario and DevilHunter are the only players that I know of who still use DoomConnector.

RE: Am I The Only One That Uses Only Doom Connector For Dooming Online?

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 5:00 pm
by DevilHunter
I used to, and still do. But due to the lack of net and other RL stuff, I havn't been able to get on as much. I have it on my external drive, but I can't play any games, as when I try to, the whole pc (library pc's) locks up or something.. But anyhow, Doom Connector is pretty neat, sure it needs a huge overhall, but Zorcher was working on DC4 but.. lost steam due to people not looking into Doom Connector.

If anything, if i was a programmer, or understand how to make dlls for the ports like Odamex, I would do it.