Talk:List of commercial compilations

# of WADs vs. # of levels / claimed vs. actual numbers

I'm not sure that the current field is clear enough on what it's actually reporting. In my experience these compilations are more likely to be marketed with a number of "levels" rather than a number of "WADs" which can be a relevant distinction when a single .WAD sometimes contains multiple levels. This also makes it more difficult to test the veracity of the publisher's claims.

An actual number of levels vs. claimed number of levels might be interesting, but given the tediousness of checking this, perhaps it's better to consider that this field be dropped as too lacking in real information? -- ETTiNGRiNDER (talk) 21:10, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

I know it's a bit of a problem determining "levels" vs. "WADs" but it's still useful information to judge the relative size of the compilations by. However I would request that you not include/add things like "1000's" - if you are unable to get an actual numeric figure and cannot download and mount the image to manually count, then don't include the information at all.

I also removed the word (registered) from the Launcher field because it is not part of the launcher program's title and was causing that column to increase in length and the table width is already maxing out. --Quasar (talk) 21:33, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Shovelware list

Doomworld forum user buttspit posted a list probably not exhaustive but still more complete than what we have in the article currently. There are much less details about them though, having only the title and for some an approximate level count. I'm pasting the list below for posterity. --Gez (talk) 10:56, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

A few of these I'm aware of, such as the alternate versions of Demon Gate that claim 600, vs 666, levels, but I've not had time to research them yet. If you branch out into German, some of them are documented here (archived 🏛), but to be honest I feel like some of these obvious hack jobs somebody had printed up at the German version of Kinko's, don't even list a publisher at all, and are probably owned by 10 people in the whole world have to be below our notability standards. Thanks for the list though, it'll give me (or anybody else) something to work off of. --Quasar (talk) 16:16, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

NB: I am adding notes to some of these. --Quasar (talk) 16:28, 2 April 2016 (CDT)

1000+ Great Games - ?
1001 Nights of Doom - >2228 (Already listed -Quasar)
200 BEST GAMES OF ALL GENRES. FAVORITE (Best) (Russian) - ?
200 BEST GAMES OF ALL GENRES 13. 3D Action & Arcades (Russian) - ?
3D Game Alchemy - >2400? (Already listed -Quasar)
3D Mania Games - ?
3D Nightmares - >501
3D Super CD Gaming - ?
3D Violence - >347
4-Ever Doomed - >1200
Absolute Mayhem - 81
Action Ware 3 Extra Levels for Doom - >800
Action Ware 4 Extra Levels for Doom II - >1600
Aliens Doom - 11
Aliens Doom (different from above) - 27
Amiga Format CD #24 - ?
Amiga Format CD #30 - ?
Amiga Format CD #31 - ?
Amiga Format CD #39 - ?
Best of the Best Vol 2 Shareware Collection - ?
Boom Classic Power Pack - 2000
Boom Classic Power Pack 2 - 1000
Boom Power Pack [OHBOOM1] (German) - 440 (Includes extra resources -Quasar)
Boom Power Pack [OHBOOM2] (German+English) - 650 (Includes extra resources -Quasar)
Boom 2 Power Pack [B-OHBOOM2] (German+English) - 1000 (Includes extra resources -Quasar)
Boom 2 Supplement - >1321
Boom 3 Power Pack > 1356
Boom Classic Power Pack (German+English+French) - 2000 (Includes extra resources -Quasar)
C!T ROM II - ?
C!T ROM V - ?
CD Game Box Vol 1 - ?
CD Gamer October 1994 Number 1 (Australia) - 24
CD Powerplay - 695
CD Powerplay Total Carnage Issue 3 - 550
CD-ROM Aktiv No. 3 (Swedish shovelware disc) - >54
CDWare Juegos - ?
Chex Quest - 5
Club Software 1996 Doom WADS - ?
Cream of the Crop (#3-11, #20-26) - ?
Cobra Doom (3 disk set) - ?
Cobra Doom Utilities 1st Ed - >350 (Includes extra resources -Quasar)
Cobra Doom Utilities 2nd Ed - >900
Cobra Doom Episodes Volume I-III - 72
Cobra Doom II Episodes Volume I and II - 60
Cobra Powerpack - >2300
Cobra Utilities for Doom and Doom II - 1200 (Includes extra resources -Quasar)
Collection of Doom Utilities - >1600
Complete Game Makeover Pack - ?
D-1000 - 1000
D!Match 150  - 150
D!Match - 500
D!Zone - 150
D!Zone 150 - 150
D!Zone 2 (1 shot box; French version also exists) - 1000
D!Zone 2 (3 shots box) - 1000
D!Zone 2 150 - 150
D!Zone 2 Collector's Edition - ?
D!Zone 3 - 1000
D!Zone 3 Collector's Edition - ?
D!Zone Collector's Edition (1 shot box; Spanish version exists, rare) - >900
D!Zone Collector's Edition (3 shots box) - >900
D!Zone Gold 3000 - 3000
D!Zone Mac - 2000
Deathday Collection - >1000
Deathmatch for Doom and Doom II - ~1300
Deathmatch 2 for Doom II (PC and Mac versions) - 900
Deathmatch Manifesto CD-ROM - ?
Death Match The Ultimate Game Player's Kit (UK and US versions) - >7000
Demon Collection - ?
Demon Gate - >600
Demon Gate 666 - >666
Demon Gate Mac - >600
Demon Gate Mega Collection - >6000
Depths of Doom Trilogy (Master Levels+Ultimate Doom) - 3030
Digital Warefare - >215
Dominator V2.0 - ?
DM2 Magic for Doom II - >270 (Includes extra utilities; published by MICROBOSS Germany -Quasar)
DM2 Super Magic - 440 (Published by MICROBOSS Germany -Quasar)
DO.M I Do.M II Dark Fo.ces (English+German) - ? (Either published by or subtitled "Krieger des Graunes", which means Warriors of Horror -Quasar)
Doom & More - 0
Doom + Accessories - >500
Doom 1 & 2 - >1100 (Doom, Doom II; multi-language)
Doom 1 & 2 Add-On Levels (2 versions with rearranged text) - >300 (Canadian publisher, name unknown -Quasar)
Doom 2 Addons (centipede on cover) - >1500
Doom 2 Explosion - >2218
Doom 2 Heretic Hexen CZ book CD - >2962 (Doom2, Heretic & Hexen)
Doom Add-Ons - 800 (Also includes editors, resources, and SW v1.6 -Quasar)
Doom Add-On Levels Volume 1 - ?
Doom Add-On Levels Volume 2 - 70+
Doom Add Ons - ? (2 versions, on white and on black floppy disks; likely different sources)
Doom Addons - ?
Doom 2 Addons - ?
Doom Advanced Utility CD-ROM - >375 (Seems to include tons of editor utils, and resources, not sure if levels are included -Quasar)
Doom Alien Adventure - 27
Doom CD - >1100
Doom CD ROM (Walnut Creek) - ?
Doom Collector's Edition (2001; Ultimate Doom) - 9
Doom Collector's Edition (2003; Ultimate Doom) - 9
Doom Companion (bundled with Tricks of the Doom Programming Gurus) - >1000
Doom Companion CD-ROM - ? (Has volcano on cover; Includes editors and demo recordings -Quasar)
Doom Companion Edition - ? (I own this, have not gotten around to verifying contents -Quasar)
Doom Construction Kit - 30
Doom Deathmatch Toolkit - ?
Doom Deluxe CD-ROM - ?
Doom Developers Kit Vol 1 - 850 (Includes extra resources/editors -Quasar)
Doom Development Toolkit - ?
Doom Expert - ?
Doom Explosion - >1200 (Includes extra resources/editors and shareware version  -Quasar)
Doom Extra Hard - 27 (unaltered maps, different monster placement)
Doom Extra Levels Collections Edition - ? (7 3.5" floppy disk set)
Doom Extra Levels Vol 1 - 40 (3.5" floppy; Published by Arcade International, Ltd. -Quasar)
Doom Extra Levels Vol 2 - 70 (Ditto -Quasar)
Doom Extras - >361 (Published by Software Solutions, includes extra resources, utils, and shareware version -Quasar)
Doom Extras II - ? (Likely same as Doom II Extras, which I have added -Quasar)
Doom Fever - >500 (Cover says is for Doom II and includes "accessories" -Quasar)
Doom Game Editor - >1000 (This is the CD-ROM for Joe Pantuso's Wiley & Sons published "The Doom Game Editor" book -Quasar)
Doom Game Pack #1 - ?
Doom Game Pack #2 - ?
Doom Game Pack #3 - ?
Doom Game Pack #4 - ?
Doom Hacker's Guide CD - >42 (CD-ROM for The Doom Hacker's Guide by Hank Leukart -Quasar)
Doom Heaven - >2500 (Includes extra resources/utils -Quasar)
Doom Heaven II - >2500 (Ditto -Quasar)
Doom Helper - >1000 (Ditto; and 3 versions of Doom shareware; published by Chicago Computer Broker -Quasar)
Doom Helper 2 - 1900 (Ditto -Quasar)
Doom I/II Collection - >100 (Says "hundreds", published by SoftKey, similar to "The Ultimate Add On Collection for Doom & Doom II" -Quasar)
Doom I & II guidebook CD (from Argentina) - ?
Doom I & II Overload - ?
Doom II Explosion - >2000 (Includes extra resources/editors -Quasar)
Doom II Heretic Hexen CD Book - ?
Doom II Mania!!! #1 - 432
Doom II Mania!!! #2 - ?
Doom II Scenarii - ? (Italian)
Doom Magazine Le CD-ROM - 2 versions, one with 1200 and one with 1800+ levels
Doom Mania!!! - 525
Doom Mania - ? (Italian add-on CD)
Doom Mania 2 La Vendetta - ? (Italian add-on CD)
Doom Master (Russian) - ?
Doom Mega Set - ?
Doom Scenari - 100 (not certain if different from the Scenarii series)
Doom Scenarii - ? (Italian)
Doom Shareware CD - >2900
Doom Special Edition - >169
Doom Univers Paralleles - >414
Doom Unlimited - >879
Doom Utilities - ?
Doom Utilities II - ?
Doom Volume 1-4 (floppy disc sets) - ?
Doom2 Unauthorized Guide - 0
Doomania - 2600 (German; Doom and Doom II -Quasar)
Doomania: il passaporto per l'Inferno - ?
Doomed Games - ?
DoomII Megawad Collection #1 - >100
Dooms Day Collection V1 - ? (Published by Microforum; Doom and Doom II, includes utilities, resources, and patches - possibly republish of Deathday Collection, uses same cover art -Quasar)
Doomware Developers Network CD Occurrence I - >1000
Dooms Day Collection v2 - ?
Enhancements - >1106
Final Doom - 64
Game Box Vol 1 - >650
Game Cheat Gallery - ?
Gamers Arsenal - ?
Games 1994 - ?
Games 1995 - ?
Games 1996 - ?
Games and More (Whalesoft Inc) - ~340 (300 for Doom, 40 for Doom II)
Games Chameleon - 1140
Gaminator - 1300
Generation PC (issue 22) - ?
Giga Games 2 - >616
Gold Medal Software (Volumes 3-5) - ?
Hacx - 20
Hell on CD-ROM - ? (Network Occurrence II; likely the follow-up to Doomware Developer's Network CD, and Occurrence III is Heresies)
Hell to Pay - 32
Heretic With Accessories - ? (box claims over 1000 Doom related files)
Home Edutainment Collection Volume IV - 1200
id Anthology (Ultimate Doom; PC Master Levels only; Mac Master Levels with MaxDoom) - 3030/3051
Instant Doom Levels - >1000
Instant Doom Levels 2.0 - ?
January 1995 Current Shareware - ?
July 1994 Current Shareware Volume II - ?
Koop Ook PC-Consument - Met Gratis CD-ROM (Dutch) -~14
Laura Beyer's Doom - 12
Level-ROM - >1112
Level Master - ?
Level Master II - >2400
Levelmania - 2450
Levelmania 2 - ?
MacGames 3 - ?
Master Levels for Doom II - 3021
Maximum Death for Doom - 1600
Maximum Death for Doom II - 2400
MediaShare 12, 14 - ?
MegaCD-ROM #5 - ?
MegaDoom 1 - 385
MegaDoom 2 - >927
MegaDoom 3 Add-On CD-ROM - 500 (From Luxembourg and Netherlands; claims to also include best of 2 previous editions, part of "CD-Thuis Collectie")
MegaDoom Adventures - >300
MegaDoom II - >1500 (Doom, Doom II, and Heretic -Quasar)
Mega ROM #5 - ?
Mega WAD Vol I - >240
Mega WAD Vol II - ?
Monster 2 Best of 1994 - >1768
Monster Media '94: Best of 1994 - ?
New Doom Levels: Into the Fire - 27
New Horizons Shareware Collection - ?
Night Owl Games 3 - ?
Night Owl (#13, #15, #16-18, #20) - ?
Oh No More Games IV, V, VI, VII, X - ?
Over 1000 Doom Levels - >2064
PC Action (April and October 1997 issues) - ?
PC Attack (issues 1-6, 8) - ~71
PC Attack Ultradisc 3 - ~12 (Doom II)
PC Collector (issues 1, 2, 7) - ?
PC Format - ?
PC Gamer 39 cd 2 - >1000
PC Gamer 55 - >366
PC Gamer (Nov 1995 - ~Jan 1997 coverdiscs) - ?
PC Gamer Coverdisc 024 (Italian) - ?
PC Gamer Coverdisc 025 (Italian) - ?
PC Gamer Coverdisc 027 (Italian) - ?
PC Gamer Coverdisc 031 (Italian) - ?
PC Gamer CD #11 - ?
PC Gamer Disc 2.2 - ?
PC Gamer Disc 2.5 - 6
PC Gamer Disc 2.8 - 5
PC Gamer: The Extended Play Collection Volume 2 - ?
PC Gamer Taiwan Edition (issues 51, 52) - ?
PC Gamer UK Coverdisk CD01 - ?
PC Gamer UK Issue 55 Cover CD B - ?
PC Games (August and November 1994 issues) - ?
PC Home 19 - ?
PC Mania (various issues) - ?
PC Review issue 60 - 22
PC Zone 1993 (Zool 2 mentioned on CD) - ~500
PC Zone October & December 1994 editions - ?
PC Zone April 1995 (no mention of Bioforce on this one) - ~1000
PC Zone Bioforce (April 1995) - >1130
PC Zone CD Edition - 1000
PC Zone Explosive (December 1994) - >455
Perdition's Gate - 32
Power CD-ROM 10 - ?
Power Duke - >3058
Power Source Collection - >2501
PSL Monthly Volume #3-10: Education - ?
Pure Doom - >3216
Quake 'Em - >1673
Ray Cast 3D Box - ? (1995/1997?)
Shareware CD Compilation No. 40 (France) - 1800
Shareware Extravaganza 8 - ?
Shareware Heaven 4 - >81 (Doom & Doom2)
Shareware Heaven 5 - >145 (Doom, Doom2 & Heretic)
Shareware Medley - >443
Shareware Supreme Games - ? (besides custom level wads, includes a few pre-1.9 shareware Doom versions)
So Much Shareware (volumes 5,6) - ?
Software Vault: Diamond - ?
Sprint Gamers Companion 5 - ?
Soundblaster Multimedia Experience Volume 4 - >540
Star Wars Doom - 21
Supercharged Doom - ?
Supercharged Xpansion Pack - >500
Supergamer - ?
Super Gamer: Best Games - >300
Supergames Volume 1 - ?
Supergames Volume 2 - >20 (Includes utils, guides, resources, shareware v1.2 -Quasar)
Supergames Volume 5 - ?
Supergames Volume 6 - ?
Supergames Volume 9 - ?
Taz 2 - >1635
The Best of Select Games Vol 2 - 148 (Doom, German)
The Complete 3D-Action Accessory Pack - ?
The Complete Doom Accessory Pack - >150 (Includes utils, resources -Quasar)
The Complete Doom Accessory Pack Volume II - 600 (Ditto)
The Complete Doom Accessory Pack Volume III - 650 (Ditto)
The Complete Doom Accessory Pack Volume IV - 2300 (Ditto)
The Doom Hacker's Guide - ? (Same as Hacker's Guide to Doom by Hank Leukart -Quasar)
The Doomsday Disk - >1800
The Hacker's Encyclopedia '98 - ?
The Home Edutainment Collection Volume 4 3D Games and Extensions (Aztech New Media Corp) - ?
The Lost Episodes of Doom - 24
The Pier Shareware (#5-10) - ?
The Q Files - ?
The Snakepit of Doom - ?
The Toom Parade CDR2028 - ?
The Toom Parade CDR2133 - ?
The Ultimate & The Classic (Ultimate Doom) - 9
The Ultimate Add On Collection For Doom/Doom II - >1000 (Incl. hits, maps, editor utils; has same blurb about "First aid" on it as Doom I/II Collection -Quasar)
The Ultimate WAD Pack - ?
Time of Reckoning - 500
Toolkit for Doom Version 1 - 500? (Published by Walnut Creek CDROM; name implies includes utils; probably stuff from /idgames archive -Quasar)
Toolkit for Doom Version 1 and 2 - 500? (Ditto -Quasar)
Toolkit for Doom Volume 1 - >1243
Toolkit for Doom Volume 2 - >1346 
Toolkit for Doom Volume 3 - >3328
TopGames 1 - ?
Total Ruin 1 - >3000
Total Ruin 2 - ?
Total Ruin 3 - ?
Tricks of the Doom Gurus - ? (Separate entry from the one below, on redump; misprint?)
Tricks of the Doom Programming Gurus - >1000
Ultimate Add-On's Tournament Edition - >2500?
Ultimate Doom (basically an add-on) - 9
Ultimate Doom Companion - >3600
Ultimate Gameware Collection - ?
UltraDoom - 400
Universe of Levels(?) - ?
Video Game Solution CD Release 2.0 - ?
Violence in 3D - >700
Violence Volume 2 - >1000?
Virtual Reality - >100 (Doom & Doom II; includes editors/utils and shareware version -Quasar)
WADS of WADS - >100 (or 2247?)
Xtra Shake - >1277
Your Choice: Software Collection Vol 1 - ?
Zone Sampler - 50

Coverdisc and Shareware Collection - ? (available here https://archive.org/details/shareware-cds-wads-collection, update here: https://archive.org/details/swr-cds-wads-update-pack)
Coverdisc archive - ? (several publications of PC Gamer, PC Review and PC Zone https://beigebox.co.uk/retro/coverdisk-archive/ and https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/128581-wadmodders-shovelware-compilation-cd-pwad-documentation-project/?do=findComment&comment=2493723)
Coverdisc and Shareware General - ? (various one-off releases; general thread here https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/128581-wadmodders-shovelware-compilation-cd-pwad-documentation-project/)
Doom & Company coverdisc addendum - ? (https://archive.org/details/doom-company-1.0)

Level Master II

A few notes on my recent edit and the product.

• The contents appear to just be a copy of 3D Game Alchemy. I didn't get a sealed copy, but the book is pictured on the back of the box and the book fits the box just right. My copy didn't come with anything beyond the box and book with disc.
• The book is from SAMS, but the box says Macmillan Digital Publishing USA, so I changed it to this.
• I do not see the phrase "Instant Doom Levels" written anywhere on the box or book cover.
• I have seen Level Master III, IV and V offered for sale on eBay/Amazon, but never just plain Level Master (I). This kind of bugs me since the Level Master II box does say "Volume 2" on the side. (I don't have 3-5, which are not Doom-related anyway.) What's with this? Was there really a Level Master I out there somewhere? Is it related to the previous edition of 3D Game Alchemy (Tricks of the Doom Programming Gurus)?

-- ETTiNGRiNDER (talk) 17:50, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Most of my info came from here. This page says it comes with an eBook copy of Tricks of the Doom Gurus, which is not the same book as 3D Game Alchemy - see List of books. Are we sure this is the one-and-the-same product? --Quasar (talk) 18:51, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Some photos. I really don't think archive.org puts much care into those collections. -- ETTiNGRiNDER (talk) 19:39, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Clearly not. Your changes look good to me in light of the pics. --Quasar (talk) 21:13, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Hang on, is the book electronic or physical? There seems to be confusion on that point in the sources I have available. --Quasar (talk) 21:23, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Physical, it's a big tome that fills up the box snugly and has the CD-ROM in a pouch at the back. -- ETTiNGRiNDER (talk) 21:31, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for confirming. --Quasar (talk) 22:00, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

On closer inspection, the CD-ROM includes a few PDF supplements to the book, one discussing some of the new features in Hexen, and a couple others regarding using DMapEdit and DeeP. It's a small addendum, nowhere near the full book, but is probably where the ebook claim came from. -- ETTiNGRiNDER (talk) 23:17, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Layout

The page is now unreadable on mobile and should not be reviewed until someone restores the layout. --Quasar (talk) 02:16, 2 March 2019 (CST)

Boom 3 Classic Power Pack

A few notes on the addition of this one:

• I could not find any publisher information on the packaging or in the software (the disc says "Copyright 1995" with no indication to whom). There is however a credit to Lutz Schulze for compiling the levels in the menu software, so I listed that name in the publisher slot.
• There is a unique software menu that runs under Windows. However it only displays info and does not install the WADs or launch Doom so I did not consider it suitable for the "launcher" slot.
• There may be "exclusives" in so far as WAD compilations that existed only on this disc, however, a brief glance suggests that they're probably all stitched together from previously existing WADs rather than original material. For instance I recognized E3M1 of "MAZES.WAD" as UAC_DEAD.
• The front label says "Boom Classic Power Pack" while the side label says "Boom 3 Classic Power Pack".

ETTiNGRiNDER (talk) 18:20, 16 May 2019 (CDT)

Merge Shovelware cover art?

Perhaps the shovel art covers page thumbnails could be merged into a new column on this pages table, thus removing the need for two pages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.44.163.229 (talk)

Site Maintainer of AddonCollector

Does anyone know if the owner of the now-shut-down Addoncollector site has any contact information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.9.84.202 (talk)