Announcing a new PC gaming journal titled, DragonRook!

DragonRook is shipped in both print and with a CD.  The print contains
reviews on games, tips, news, and trends.  The CD contains game demos, 
user created programs for games like saved games, VCRs, car set-ups, 
and levels or maps. And you'll find patch files to update your games. 

The main idea is that the cost of downloading all of these programs
is huge, not to mention the large amount of time spent!  Plus, your hard 
drive space keeps shrinking.  I want to bring you these programs at a 
fraction of the cost on a CD that won't clutter
your hard drive!  Along with a printed copy of important gaming 
information, you save money and time.  And there will be no useless 
"interactive interviews" to get in the way!  I want to save space on
the CD for data and user created programs that you can acutally use
over and over.  (Ok, you may find interesting animations in the future)  

The current plan is to release DragonRook on a quarterly basis. For
now, the print is printed on matte paper.  Not until subscription reaches 
to over 7,000 and then DragonRook will become an official magazine.  Until
then, it is not cost effective to print a magazine. Be on the look out in 
the future.

There is no subscription planned at this time.  Right now, you pay
for one issue.  The price of future issues will be subject the number
of purchasers and advertising.  If I get a good response, I will be
hiring more help, get advertisers and become an official magazine
possibly by the second issue.  Then subscription rates will be 
available and the prices for each issue will be set.  Also, depending
on the response and if I can get at least 200 megs in a month, future issues may come out
every other month.  If you have made a nice game that you want to
get noticed, you may send it to DragonRook in shareware or demo form
to be destributed. Hopefully, this trial issue goes over well and we will
move on to bigger and better things.  

The first issue is focused on DOOM with articles on creating PWADS, 
tips, and a bunch of PWADs and LMPs.  There is a menu interface called,
Visions of Hell, that will allow easy selection of each PWAD.  The PWAD
is copied to your hard drive for fast execution and then is erased when
done to save your hard drive space.  The menu also organizes your saved
games for each PWAD if you wish dependant on hard drive space.  The 
menu also backs up and protects your normal saved games and then stores
the saved games for a PWAD if you wish. There are several new 1st person
3D games coming next year with editors, and these will be supported in the
same way. 

The menu also allows easy viewing of the text description and shows a
demo of the PWAD in DOOM versions 1.2 and 1.666!  You can set your 
favorite skill level and default port options.

The CD has over 80 PWADs for a total of more than 200 levels!  A large
number of levels could not be used because they didn't have text descriptions
or caused DOOM to crash.  A few just had too many errors.  (Please include
text files!) 
My own PWAD is included as a complete episode called
Castle Phobos version 3.  Many of you may have seen the first few 
levels for this episode, but now there is 9 levels with a couple of new
monsters, new graphics, new sounds, and new fantastic music!  This PWAD
has grown to over 4 Megs!  The music is also available on the CD as
standard audio that can be played on any audio CD player or your CD-ROM

The music is an example of wave-table synthesis as it was recorded 
from a Sound Canvas by Roland.  This will help players to know what
wave-table music is like.  I think that this particular music may be the best music
ever heard for any game!


The release date of DragonRook is planned for October 24, 1994.  Any
orders recieved before 10/21 will get their copy on the week of 10/24.
It is a first come, first served basis.  After 10/24, please allow up to
3 weeks for delivery dependant on availability of the CDs while they 
are being duplicated.  Most orders should be recieved within a week.

The price is set for $9 dollars for the first issue and payment should
be a check drawn on a U.S. bank.  This price includes shipping for 
continental U.S. Add $1 for Canada, Alaska, and Hawaii. Contact 
DragonRook about other destinations.

Mail orders to:  

DragonRook
PO Box 1354
Eugene  OR  97440


Here is a list of game demos as of 10/6/94

X-COM
Lords of Midnight
NASCAR Racing
BreakThru
Mechwarrior 2
Pinball Fantasies
Blackthorne
Simon The Sorcerer
Dark Legions

Here is a list of PWADs as of 10/6/94
(This list is easier to read on a full screen text viewer)

666                             Stephen Timson                  666.wad
Allen's M1                      Allen Fivehouse                 allenm1.wad        
Amadeus, Deathmatch of Century  Paul Johnson                    amadeus.wad
B21                             Bob Carter                      b21.wad
Bad Dream                       Rick Lowder                     baddream.wad
Baron on an Altar               Andrew Murphy                   boa.wad
Baron on a Pedestal             Andrew Murphy                   bop.wad 
Base 12                         Scott Tingley                   base12.wad
				Wesley Leong

Beware v1.2                     Matt Carauddo                   beware26.wad
Blast                           David Dione                     blast.wad
Blood Bath                      Aug & Ben Sze                   dmbbath.wad
BobKD                           Bob Carter                      bobkd.wad
Bubba                           Robert Shwarz                   Bubba.wad
Castle Phobos v3                David G Shrock                  cphobos.wad
				Ross Warren     
				Sean Fugate

Catacomb                        Daniel Tanguay                  catacomb.wad
Cave                            Chris Tierney                   cave.wad
Chris E1                        Christian David Klie            chris_e1.wad
Colony 1                        Darryl Gaston                   colony1.wad
Crescent                        Doug Ryerson                    crescent.wad
Crossfire                       Terry Yaich                     crossfir.wad
Crossing Acheron                John W. Anderson aka Dr Sleep   acheron.wad
D9                              Mal Blackwell                   d9.wad
Dante's Gate                    John W. Anderson aka Dr Sleep   dante12.wad
Deeps                           Enrique Zamudio Lopez           deeps.wad        
Deimos Subway, The              Neal Ziring                     subway.wad
Demon's Hive, The               Phillip Wayne                   e1m1hive.wad
Destiny of Destruction          Scott Goodrich                  destiny.wad
				Kathy Brown
				Kevin George
				Rich Dersheimer
Docking Crater Alpha            Jim H. Kim  aka Time Traveler   crater.wad
Doominator                      Rob Ganshorn                    dminator.wad
Dooms Day of UAC                Leo Martin Lim                  uac_dead.wad
Ender                           Jen C                           ender.wad
Enigma                          Uwe Jendricke                   enigma.wad
Forest v3                       Jean-Serge Gagnon               forest30.wad
Forge                           John C. Lyons                   forge.wad
Fortress                        Curtis M. Turner II             fortress.wad
Fiffywar                        George Fiffy                    fiffywar.wad
Graphix1                        Bill Felter                     graphix1.wad
Halloween                       Phil Pesano                     haloween.wad
Halls of Death I                Jan Ignatius                    hallspro.wad
				Osku Salerma

Hangar 41                       Patrick N. Gorman               hangar41.wad
Harborside in Hell              Chris Regenye                   harbor.wad
Heartbeat                       Steven Kempowski                heartbet.wad
Hell Base                       Johnny Webb                     hellbase.wad
Hell Blok 2                     Sean                            hellblk2.wad
Hellport                        Marco van der Slot              hellport.wad
Hello on Io                     Daniel Hornbaker                io14.wad
Helltrap                        Greg Asbee                      helltrap.wad
Jawahenkov's Revenge            Ben Brooks                      jawas.wad
Joker, The                      Vance Andrew Blevins            thejoker.wad
Laboratory Escape               Chad16                          lab.wad
Legion Down Under               Jim & John McColm               legion.wad
MAK's Doomdom                   Martin A Krebs                  makdoom.wad
Megapack                        Casey Miller                    megapack.wad
Nemo                            Bill "Datasquid" Bessette       nemo.wad
No Escape                       George Kourebes                 noescape.wad
Penze 1,2 & 3                   Michael J Penze                 penze.wad                          
Obisidian Fortress              Jeff Johnson                    obsidian.wad
Outpost 1                       Michael Frank                   outpost1.wad
Rest in Pieces                  Jeremy Drye                     rip.wad
Return to Castle Wolfenstein    Norman Scott                    r2wolf11.wad
				Tim Scott

Sacrifice Episode               Ty Halderman                    sacrfice.wad
				Robert Taylor

Satan's Castle                  George Fiffy aka REoL           fiffy2.wad
Satan's Hell Hole               Mathew G. Hooper                cheese.wad
Satan's Lair                    Jeffrey Kung                    satan.wad
Scream                          Cameron Newham                  scream.wad
Shack Death                     Shawn Shackleford               death.wad
Showdown 2                      Rick Demar                      shwdown2.wad
				Vance Andrew Blevins            

Sky City                        Darven K. McKeigan              skycity.wad
Spaced                          Whade Tweady                    spaced.wad
Special Operation Force         Gariel Basco Guimaraens         dmsof.wad
Storm                           Bill Slavens                    storm.wad
Stronghold                      Steve Vilotti                   strnghld.wad
Summit of Oblivion              Eric Aamodt  aka Infinity       mountain.wad
				Dave Crampton aka Zardon

Survival                        Peter A. Schroeter              survival.wad
Sweet Level                     Tim Woodring                    swtlvl.wad
Test to Kill                    Mathew G. Hooper                test2kil.wad
Torched                         Joe Lawrence                    torched.wad
Toxic                           Mark Giltz                      Toxic.wad
Tree 3                          Greg Lewis                      tree3.wad
Undersea                        Brian Plumb                     undersea.wad
Vengeance                       John A. Warren                  vengence.wad
Weird 1                         Darryl Gaston                   weird1.wad



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For the latest information on the status of DragonRook, check out the 
DragonRook folder under pcgames/announcements on America Online.

