Mouse players before DOSDoom

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Did you use to play DooM with the mouse before free looking was available?

 
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Mouse players before DOSDoom

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Post by Luke » Fri Nov 29, 2013 2:05 pm

I'm curious to know how many people used a mouse to play doom before it was possible to enable free looking, in other words before DOSDoom or other source ports that enabled free looking were compiled.

I'll add a third option to the poll, so who didn't play doom before a source port came out can vote as well.

Feel free to tell us why you did or did not use the mouse. If you didn't play doom before 1999 you've gotta do 200push-ups in a row because you're not a doomguy/doomgirl!
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Post by Cruduxy » Fri Nov 29, 2013 2:47 pm

You know the poll options are a confusing wall of text.. just replace them with yes I did and no I didn't..
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Post by someoneelse » Fri Nov 29, 2013 3:06 pm

in 1999 I had yet 7 years to obtaining home computer ;) Damn rich American kids, they don't know how I had to walk 20 kilometers in a snow to play Mortal Kombat III in 2005...
I did played original binary though, and thanks to this (mouse was pretty much useless) in first five years of using source ports I was using goddamn arrows and was very surprised why everyone else moves so fast. Though, now when I play original binary on DOSBox, I use novert.
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Post by mr fiat » Fri Nov 29, 2013 3:07 pm

Cruduxy wrote: You know the poll options are a confusing wall of text.. just replace them with yes I did and no I didn't..
this, and no i didnt originally use a mouse even if i discovered doom sometime in 2000/2001 (vannila)

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Post by Luke » Fri Nov 29, 2013 3:16 pm

I can't change the poll's options so if a moderator can, please change the first two options with "Yes I did." and "No I didn't.".

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Post by Reaku » Fri Nov 29, 2013 3:29 pm

I always used the keyboard for Dosdoom, and even later when it was just Doom95, I didn't start using the mouse until I found JDoom, this being years before I came across ZDoom just to play Hexen.
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Post by SpaceMarine » Fri Nov 29, 2013 3:58 pm

Doom has always been keyboard only for me until I discovered Skulltag.
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Post by Hypnotoad » Fri Nov 29, 2013 4:47 pm

I think I originally just played with arrow keys, didn't even strafe.

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Post by HeX9109 » Fri Nov 29, 2013 5:50 pm

I've been using the mouse since I first played Doom 2 back in '95. My brother often played keyboard only when we were little but still started using the mouse before we discovered source ports.
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Post by Catastrophe » Fri Nov 29, 2013 6:28 pm

I played keyboard only for one year on Zdaemon thinking that everyone else also used keyboard only since their F12 was so broken that it wouldn't show people looking up or down.
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Post by Klofkac » Fri Nov 29, 2013 7:13 pm

New pool option needed: I found DosDoom after ZDoom and Doomsday(or on 2012), and I started using mouse when these sourceports were downloaded to my PC.
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Post by -Jes- » Fri Nov 29, 2013 10:39 pm

I mouse'd up when I found ZDoom.

That was 2004 I think.

Of course, for other games I mouse'd up when Quake came out.

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Post by Empyre » Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:03 am

I used a Gravis Gamepad (the one with 4 buttons) for Doom until I discovered a port with free look.
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