This is the classic from ID Software. It spawned Quake and remains the most popular Shoot'em up of all time. For many, Doom remains their favourite. The doom engine was released as source code to the public domain. The engine covers all wads from the first Doom1, Doom2 and finally Ultimate Doom
It will only play in 256 color.
1) Download doom-1.10-7.i386.rpm from http://www.rpmfind.net
2) Install using kpackage as root ignoring dependencies OR
from a su console
rpm -i --nodeps doom-1.10-7.i386.rpm
3) The package will install in the several directories. Unfortunately they are chowned as root and cause difficulties in saving the game SO we will plunk everything in a user directory;
mkdir $HOME/doom
mv
/usr/X11R6/bin/xdoom $HOME/doom/
mv
/usr/games/rundoom $HOME/doom/
mv
/usr/lib/games/doom/* $HOME/doom/
chown <username>.users *
4) make a run script by editing the one that's there, clean it out and replace it with as follows
edit doom/rundoom
the following script allows you to add EXTRA wads. warps you to the first episide and plays in hurt me plenty mode. (anything less is for woosses)
#!/bin/bash
export
DOOMWADDIR=$HOME/doom
if [
-n "$1" ]; then
arg="-file
"$1.wad
else
arg=""
fi
$HOME/doom/xdoom -3 -skill 4 -warp 1 1 $arg &
5) grab some doom wads
the rpm package comes with the original shareware doom1.wad. You can start playing immediately. If you have your own registered copies of doom, doom2 or ultimate doom copy whatever you have accounting for the following naming conventions
doomu.wad # Ultimate
Doom (from cd)
doom2.wad # original
hell on earth Doom2
doom.wad #
Original doom1 version 1.2 or better
doom1.wad # doom
shareware
xdoom (the engine) will load the first wad found from the above order.
6) THIS GAME PLAYS ONLY IN 256 COLOR MODE you MUST do the following
as root, edit /etc/XF86Config
change the line 'defaultdisplaymode' from 16 (or whatever) to 8
then restart the X server
(normally this can be done by logging out of kde and
restarting that way in the shutdown options)
ENJOY!
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