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Inspired
by Chris Chokan's
breakthrough hex-editing
of the Wolf3d EXE in
1998's "Chokage", and
assisted by Chris
himself, Gary Ragland
arguably became the
community's best overall
addon maker of 1999.
"Assassinate Hitler"
v1.2 and "Schabbs 2000"
became classics of fine
level design and
appealing EXE changes,
accomplished before
anyone had yet figured
out how to successfully
edit and re-compile the
Wolfenstein source
code.
His
levels tended to be a
bit cramped, though his
last two mods had maps
that pretty much filled
the 64 x 64 grid.
Regardless of level
size, his addons were
all very challenging,
well-designed, and just
plain fun to
play.
Gary
seemed to run out of
inspiration after
"Schabbs 2000"; the
planned sequel was
released over 3 years
later in a much
scaled-back form. A set
of levels for episode 4
appeared in the interim.
A
short series of posts in
early 2004 at the
DieHardWolfers forums
was the last word from
Gary. Or was
it?
Andy
Nonymous.
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