Re: DOOM engine for modern Linux systems?

[Kurt Granroth]

It's not so much that "I want to play DOOM" as much as "I want to play DOOM on Linux". Pretty much every decent DOOM engine has a binary for OS X so I could (and have, in the past) go that route.

Lisa Kachold wrote:

This time, I want to see if I can get any of the Linux ports to give me a screen that uses my dual-monitor setup ;-)

Try Vmware?


There are quite a few custom wads around also?



But you run all the cheat codes (kinda boring).




*/Kurt Granroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:

    Does anybody currently play classic DOOM (DOOM, DOOM II, and Final
    DOOM)
    on Linux? If so, what do you use?

    I got bit by a nostalgia bug lately and want to play the original DOOM.
    I remember using Doom Legacy back in the day but the binary doesn't
    work on my 64-bit openSUSE system and it doesn't come close to
    compiling
    with a modern gcc 4.x compiler.

    The Eternity project does have a working engine... but it's not much
    beyond a classic port. It only goes up to 1024x768 for instance and
    doesn't have the OpenGL effects that newer engines have and that Doom
    Legacy has spoiled me for.

    So am I alone in playing these (now ancient) games? Or what is the
    preferred engine?

    Kurt

FC 9 runs VMWARE Player. There are 32bit versions that you can run and just install the DOOM from id? Although you are prolly not going to win any WAD networking contests, on accounta the VMWARE bridging? Just go buy the new Doom 4 for $19.99 at Fry's and run IT in a Window VMWARE [player might be required]. I am not sure of Vmware on OpenSuse (I just use 10.3 for it's good patch management/security and use FC 9 for Vmware testing).

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