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According to Sid Sackson's "A Gamut of Games": Enter a series of caverns in search of treasures of all kind. A die calls up monsters (which, like the adventurers, are metal figures to be colored with the paints supplied) and governs their attacks. Crypt of the Sorcerer was the companion piece in the series; the boards could be combined into one adventure. Hell, formerly known as Jekkad, and commonly referred to as the Dark Realm, is a cornerstone element of the Doom universe. It is the source of the demonic invasion in the games. It is a dimension from where demons originated. It has a significant presence in many levels, and is the setting of parts of Doom, Doom II, Final Doom, Doom 64, Doom 3, Resurrection of Evil, Doom (2016) and Doom. I started this blog, lo these many weeks ago, to document a project of recreating the Caverns of Doom and the Sorcerer’s Crypt. As I sought out information to fill in some gaps (Ihad lost some of the rules sheets and discarded the boxes, which had the character.

The “Caverns of Doom” map was much, much larger than the “Crypt of the Sorcerer.” If you had both games, you could enter the caverns from the crypt through the entrance at the top left of the COD map. These were “dungeon crawl” games, some of the first, and still a cherished memory. Crypt of the Sorcerer and Caverns of Doom are two games based on the same system, so I’ll write a single review for the both of them. The primary difference between the two is that Caverns of Doom is the larger game, with a larger map, a larger number of characters, and a larger number of monsters.

Caverns of Darkness is a 12 levelPWAD for Doom II created by The Chaos Crew and released on April 24, 2002. It is packaged with a required custom source port executable for MS-DOS. The levels are well-known for their use of voodoo dollconveyor belt scripting, ambient sounds, and fake 3D (through middle textures) to create more realistic subterranean environments.

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Authors[edit]

Levels for the WAD were made by:

Programming for the engine was done by:

Music for the WAD was written by:

• Justus Johnson

Content[edit]

Levels[edit]

All levels by Christopher Lutz unless noted otherwise.

• MAP02: Six Feet Under (exit to MAP11)
• MAP04: Hydrosfear by NokturnuS
• MAP05: Command Control by Emil Brundage (exit to MAP12)
• MAP09: Hellmine by NokturnuS
• MAP11: Symbol of Grace (secret map)
• MAP12: The Stand (secret map)

Soundtrack[edit]

Aside from one custom track, all levels use Doom and Doom II songs by Robert Prince.

• MAP01: ? by Justus Johnson
• MAP02: 'Running From Evil' (from MAP01: Entryway)
• MAP03: 'The Demons from Adrian's Pen' (from E2M2: Containment Area)
• MAP04: 'The Demon's Dead' (from MAP10: Refueling Base)
• MAP05: 'Donna to the Rescue' (from E3M2: Slough of Despair)
• MAP06: 'Waiting for Romero to Play' (from MAP18: The Courtyard)
• MAP07: 'Waltz of the Demons' (from E2M7: Spawning Vats)
• MAP08: 'Into Sandy's City' (from MAP09: The Pit)
• MAP09: 'Shawn's got the Shotgun' (from MAP07: Dead Simple)
• MAP10: 'Getting too Tense' (from MAP28: The Spirit World)
• MAP11: 'They're Going to Get You' (from E2M4: Deimos Lab)
• MAP12: 'They're Going to Get You' (from E2M4: Deimos Lab)
• Title: ?

Caverns of Darkness Engine[edit]

Caverns Of Doom Rules 2020

Caverns of Darkness Engine (or CoD Engine) is a source modification created by Joel Murdoch and based on Eternity Engine v3.29. The COD.EXE file included in the PWAD's archive is a source modification compiled for MS-DOS. To play Caverns of Darkness in Windows operating systems, a DOS emulator such as DosBox must be used. The binary adds more level editing features including:

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• a new instant-death sector type for players falling into a black void
• a healing sector type that gives players health
• two new lighting effects to adjust sector brightness by 15
• looping ambient sounds
• additional attacks for the Archvile and Cyberdemon

On May 4, 2002, The Chaos Crew member Christopher Lutz published Joel's source code to the team's web site. However with the file stored on Joel's personal hosting, the link eventually went dead and the source became unavailable for more than a decade. On May 26, 2019 Joel Murdoch re-uploaded the source and posted a new download link to the Doomworld forums. It was made available on the idgames archive on January 31, 2020.

ZDoom version[edit]

On January 23, 2005, Graf Zahl supplied a source modification called ZDOOM-COD.EXE, derived from ZDoom 2.0.96 that made the necessary additions to play Caverns of Darkness. It reports in-game as ZDoom 2.0.96c (COD custom). On November 15, 2008, he released a CoD PWAD patch to instead allow the levels to be played using the regular ZDoom build. It substitutes DECORATE actors in place of the original hard-coded custom thing types and weapons, as well as using MAPINFO to apply map translators that replace the CoD engine's new sector and linedef types.

External links[edit]

• Caverns of Darkness at Doomworld/idgames
• Caverns of Darkness Engine source code at Doomworld/idgames
• Caverns of Darkness at Doomworld/idgames (ZDoom patch WAD from 2008)
• ZDoom custom build forum thread from 2005
• Caverns of Darkness at the Doom Speed Demo Archive
• Original COD Engine source code release entry (May 4th, 2002), hosted by Doomworld
• Review at ONEMANDOOM: WAD Reviews

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