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Wadding is used in guns to seal gas behind a projectile. This can be crucial to a gun's efficiency, since any gas that leaks past a projectile as it is being fired is wasted. A harder or more carefully designed item which serves this purpose is often called a sabot. Wadding for muzzleloaders is typically a small piece of cloth, or paper wrapping from the cartridge. This article is about firearms and similar devices. ... A projectile is any object sent through the air by the application of some force. ... A sabot (French: shoe) is a device used in a firearm or cannon to fire a projectile or bullet that is smaller than the bore diameter. ... A muzzleloader is any firearm into which the bullet is loaded from the muzzle of the gun. ... Rimmed, centerfire . ...


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Doom WAD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2623 words)
Many of the WADs were in the style of the stock game, others were based on TV series, movies, or original themes.
Even those WADs which transformed the game by replacing graphics and sounds were somewhat limited; much of the game's behaviour, including the timing and power of weapons and enemies, was hard-coded in the Doom executable file and impossible to alter from WADs.
Around 1994 and 1995, WADs were distributed primarily through BBSs and via CD collections found in computer shops or bundled together with instruction guides for level creation (in later years Internet FTP servers became the primary method for obtaining these works).
OldDoom.com -- Wads (Replacement Levels) (784 words)
These are the megawads (wads that have many levels) that I like the most, I didn't include any I don't like.
This wad has a really original idea: every level has a Cyberdemon that you have to kill by telefragging it (teleporting on top of it) or by crushing it.
This is a wad for Doom that celebrates the 10th birthday of Doom (12/10/03).
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