Equinox

Equinox

Author	Bernard De Windt
Port	Limit-removing
IWAD	Doom II
Year	2001
Link	Doomworld/idgames
	This mod was one of the ten 2001 mods to feature in the Top 100 WADs of All Time on Doomworld!

Top 100 WADs of All Time
2001 Sin City SlayeR Null Space Doom Resurrection The Darkest Hour Equinox Vrack 2b Phobia KZDoom7 Revolution!
1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 Cacowards

Equinox is a limit-removing 13-level mapset for Doom II, created by Bernard De Windt (B.P.R.D) and released on November 21, 2001. It was listed as one of the Top 100 WADs of All Time by Doomworld in 2003. Equinox is known for its large-scale architecture, which had a tendency to crash some source ports at the time of its release.

Content[edit]

MAP01:
MAP02:
MAP03:
MAP04: MIDI rendition of "Mars, the Bringer of War"
MAP05: same as MAP02
MAP06:
MAP07: Modified version of a music track from Druid: Daemons of the Mind, by Ben Daglish
MAP08: same as MAP02
MAP09: MIDI rendition of Piano Sonata No. 2 (Chopin)'s third movement; "Marche funébre"
MAP10: Heavily modified version of "Dungeon" from Daggerfall by Eric Heberling
MAP11:
MAP12:
MAP13:

The DSDA episode records for Equinox are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV max episode, MAP01-MAP10	1:10:03	vdgg	2010-07-27	7003eq01.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on July 28, 2022.

The music for maps 1,2 and 13 are mentioned by B.P.R.D on his old Doomology website with the following:
"Well, the music isn't actually fully mine, at all... I just added beats and stuff to others peoples music that I got. Level 1 music is a back-choir of an Enya song that has a beat to it, level 2 music is a little snippet of Chariot Of The Gods that I looped over and over and added some choir to it. I stole the music from Level 13 from a dead kid's web site. The kid (sorry, can't remember his name or find the site) who is now dead actually made that piece of music and he wanted that music to be played at his funeral if he died (which, coincidentally enough, he did) Its got that 80's movie fantasy about it, like something from a Stephen Spielberg movie, or from The Exploreres or something."
Bdw Hell, a previous attempt by B.P.R.D to make a 32 map megawad, is an early iteration of Equinox. Notably, its first map has a similar layout and texturing to Equinox's MAP01.