zdmonsters.wad

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Why do I have this file?

If you have the file zdmonsters.wad, then, more than likely, you attempted
to join or successfully joined a Deathmatch WITH Monsters game on a
Zandronum server. This file contains extra monster definitions beyond the
usual stock Doom monsters. The ZDoom Monster Resource Wad (v4.0) is a
resource that consists of two wad files; humans.wad and monsters.wad. These
two files have been merged into one zdmonsters.wad file by me for some
purely technical purposes of the Zandronum server you connected to. At the time of this writing, http://psg.mtu.edu/pub/pub/idgames/combos/monsters.zip is where you can obtain the original humans.wad/monsters.wad files which 
were merged.

The above paragraph should suffice to answer the opening question of why
you have the file zdmonsters.wad. To the best of my knowledge, this will
cause no harm to your computer. If you like reading alot, I will now 
explain the logic/reasoning which yielded the creation of zdmonsters.wad:

As a Doom map level designer, I frequently run servers on both Zandronum
and ZDaemon. Though I could very easily merge the monster wad files into my
own map wad creations, I feel that would unnecessarily tie the map wad to
a specific version of the monster resource. It would furthermore bloat the
map wad unnecessarily due to the monsters not needing to be loaded when
using the map wads in ZDaemon which have no support for them.

Simply putting the original monsters.wad and humans.wad files into the zip
file of my map wads doesn't work because it creates a race condition due to
Doomseeker or GetWad's capabilities of spawning multiple threads. There's
another monsters.wad out there which is available through the stock GetWad
servers. This file has nothing at all in common with The ZDoom Monster 
Resource Wad and is actually quite small; I believe it to be a single-map
wad. It will always finish downloading prior to my map zip's extraction of
an included monsters.wad. The game would then fail to launch due to the
monsters.wad file downloaded not matching the monsters.wad used by the 
server.

For a full description of the monsters included, please see the info.txt
file included inside the original zip file referenced above. Following are
the credits for its creation.

Thank you for your interest and curiosity in reading all this.

John Price, a.k.a. Phineas, b.k.a. PRFunky
http://www.chapsoftware.com

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The ZDoom Monster Resource Wad (v4.0)
Credits to   : Mancubus II  - Being really cool
               Nanami       - Dark Imps, Satyr, Cyber Mastermind,
                              wad compilation for v1.0 most scripting
               Espi         - Stone Imp, Imp Warlord, Hell Guard,
                              Bat and Dragon Familiars, additional
                              scripting
               Graf Zahl    - wad compilation for v2.0 and 3.0
                              Rapid Fire Trooper, Rocket Zombie,
                              Fire Wyvern, BFG Zombie, Stealth Fighter
                              additional scripting
               DD_133       - Additional scripting
               Cyb          - Void's Dark Imp, Snake Imp, Blood Demon
               Bouncy       - Zombie Marine, Nightmare Cacodemon,
                              Chainsaw Zombie, Cacolich scripting
               AirRaid      - Not doing anything for this project
               Tormentor667 - Soul Harvester, Enhanced Cacodemon,
                              and Hell Warrior from TNT3, Terror, 
                              Hell's Fury ans Maelstrom sprites
                              ZombieRailgunner/RifleZombie sprites
              TheDarkArchon - Hell's Fury scripting
                              Plasma Elemental scripting
                              Maelstrom scripting
                              Cacolich scripting
                              RifleZombie scripting
              LilWhiteMouse - Scorpion Mastermind
              Quasar        - Arachnophyte
              Xaser         - Tortured Soul
              Lexus Alyus   - Cacolantern sprite
              Assmaster     - Original Tortured Soul sprite
              Björn Ostmann - Baron from Rebirth
              Vader         - Cacolich sprites
        The Ultimate Doomer - Plasma Elemental idea
              Innocent Crew - Rocket Zombie, Stealth Fighter and Super Imp
     The Alpha Dog Alliance (Strain)
                            - for inspiration and the Mauler Demon's sprite
               SkullTag     - SkullTag's Dark Imp, Blood Demon,
                              Cacolantern, Belphegor
               id Software  - Doom and Doom II
               Ravensoft    - Heretic and Hexen
               Randy Heit   - ZDoom
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