Uploaded February 2019 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
What Doom MIDI's played on a original WebTV plus receiver sounded like. Game footage is from a Webtv DishPlayer / Echostar as I no longer have the WebTV plus version of the game. Someday I will get my hands on it again.
UPDATE!!!: WebTV plus version can be seen here. youtu.be/0grYSDw-yfQ
WebTV Networks / Microsoft MsnTV:
Doom for WebTV was a commercial source port of the original Doom to the WebTV set-top box platform.
The game, (along with a few others) was only available publicly on WebTv/EchoStar Dishplayer 500, 7100, and 7200 models, and consisted of the shareware version of the game as a demonstration of the unit's technological capabilities. Users would access the games form the TV Home page on their units.
Not many people know but Doom was also available on the WebTV Plus unit, but not in a legitimate manner. Hackers discovered the game on a secret WebTV server known as TestDrive in late 1998. They were able to download the game from a WebTV internal page and also extract the download and startup commands witch were then released to the public on Sun, Mar 28, 1999 by user MattMan69. Users would then have to initially download the game to the unit by accessing the WebTV-specific URI "wtv-disk:/content/DownloadScreen.tmpl?diskmap=Doom". After that, it could be launched any number of times using the URI "Client:boota?partition=DoomROM&size=5242880&source=file://disk/Doom/approm.o"
WebTV Echo playing Doom (about 9min in for gameplay footage) - youtu.be/VEV6ESUDT8s
Image clips of Doom From a WebTV Plus - turdinc.kicks-ass.net/Msntv/wtv2.htm
(Doom 1 SoundTrack)
What Doom MIDI's played on a original WebTV plus receiver sounded like. Game footage is from a Webtv DishPlayer / Echostar as I no longer have the WebTV plus version of the game. Someday I will get my hands on it again.
UPDATE!!!: WebTV plus version can be seen here. youtu.be/0grYSDw-yfQ
WebTV Networks / Microsoft MsnTV:
Doom for WebTV was a commercial source port of the original Doom to the WebTV set-top box platform.
The game, (along with a few others) was only available publicly on WebTv/EchoStar Dishplayer 500, 7100, and 7200 models, and consisted of the shareware version of the game as a demonstration of the unit's technological capabilities. Users would access the games form the TV Home page on their units.
Not many people know but Doom was also available on the WebTV Plus unit, but not in a legitimate manner. Hackers discovered the game on a secret WebTV server known as TestDrive in late 1998. They were able to download the game from a WebTV internal page and also extract the download and startup commands witch were then released to the public on Sun, Mar 28, 1999 by user MattMan69. Users would then have to initially download the game to the unit by accessing the WebTV-specific URI "wtv-disk:/content/DownloadScreen.tmpl?diskmap=Doom". After that, it could be launched any number of times using the URI "Client:boota?partition=DoomROM&size=5242880&source=file://disk/Doom/approm.o"
WebTV Echo playing Doom (about 9min in for gameplay footage) - youtu.be/VEV6ESUDT8s
Image clips of Doom From a WebTV Plus - turdinc.kicks-ass.net/Msntv/wtv2.htm
(Doom 1 SoundTrack)
