[newbie] Doom 3 for Linux is out!

2004-10-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Thats right, the binary for Linux/Doom 3 has been released by ID Software. The Linux Games Tomb and Linux Games web sites are reporting it. Hurrah! (now if I could just get in to IDs ftp site!!!) --

[newbie] DOOM 3 Linux client news...

2004-08-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Just grabbed this from the Linuxgames web site: DOOM III Linux Client Status - posted by Crusader - Saturday Aug 14 10:48:42 2004 HomeLAN Fed's JCal, who must be the hardest working gaming web journalist (seriously, he's one of the very few I see every year, and he goes to everything), went to

[newbie] Doom

2004-07-16 Thread Josenildo Marques
Hi. I have just installed Doom, but it doesn't work. $ prboom prboom v2.2.4 (http://prboom.sourceforge.net/) Z_Init : Allocated 8064Kb zone memory IdentifyVersion: IWAD not found I'd like to know where I can find more rpm's of cool games (I think there is a game list, isn't there ?) TIA --

Re: [newbie] Doom

2001-06-20 Thread Nico Krzebek
To obtain a list of all files belonging to an installed RPM, type rpm -ql package (without .rpm ending) For further options man rpm Nico On Monday 18 June 2001 18:15, you wrote: Hello I installed doom from an RPM that I downloaded from www.rpmfind.net but I don't know

[newbie] Doom

2001-06-18 Thread OOzy Pal
Hello I installed doom from an RPM that I downloaded from www.rpmfind.net but I don't know where did it go or how can I run it. Any ideas? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music,

Re: [newbie] Doom

2001-06-18 Thread s
:-D type in a console: updatedb then when it's done, type: locate whatever.rpm -s On Monday 18 June 2001 11:15 am, you wrote: Hello I installed doom from an RPM that I downloaded from www.rpmfind.net but I don't know where did it go or how can I run it. Any ideas? = Regards,

Re: [newbie] Doom music again?

2000-06-18 Thread J Walker
In qui, 15 jun 2000, you wrote: Does anybody have music working in Doom? I have Doom working fine with my setup except for the music. I get this when I "lxdoom" from a shell: /usr/games/musserv: midi_setup: error opening /dev/sequencer /usr/games/musserv: No such device Broken pipe

Re: [newbie] Doom music again?

2000-06-18 Thread Ronald J. Hall
J Walker wrote: I am answering this to you privately, since I don't really know the answer to your question... My music works fine, I have musserv in /usr/games/, downloaded it from a link I found in the official lxdoom page. I believe that the permissions for your /dev/sequencer must

Re: [newbie] Doom music again?

2000-06-18 Thread Chris Hall
Your doing better then I am Ron. :) I have sound in Doom but no music. In Heretic I have nothing. No sound or music. :) Are you running X Heretic? Ronald J. Hall" wrote: J Walker wrote: I am answering this to you privately, since I don't really know the answer to your question... My

RE: Re: [newbie] Doom question...seconded

2000-06-17 Thread Denis HAVLIK
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, nonic 10 wrote: :~Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 02:01:57 -0700 :~From: nonic 10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Subject: RE: Re: [newbie] Doom question...seconded :~ :~your mum is a bitch and is a fuckin wanker :~ :~go such motherfucker

RE: Re: [newbie] Doom question...seconded

2000-06-16 Thread nonic 10
your mum is a bitch and is a fuckin wanker go such motherfucker!!! From: michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Doom question...seconded Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:58:32 -0800 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi Trevor and all, I

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Fran Parker wrote: I looked at the .lxdoom in home/fran directory it is an empty file huh? Maybe that is the problem, huh? What is supposed to be there? boom.cfg and tranmap.dat I don't think it ever got far enough to write anything. (also yes, the wad file is in the

Re: [newbie] Doom question...Hardware that works well?

2000-06-13 Thread michael
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hey Michael, Pretty much any p3 will do. I've got an AMD K6-3 400 that performs on par with my roommates p3 550 for every game we've ever played. A 3dfx card will make playing older games like quake2, doom, etc easy to set up. Quake 3 looks great on my

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Fran Parker wrote: Hi Trevor and all, I tried it both ways after I moved both of the doom wad files I have into the /usr/share/games/doom directory. Here are my results: [fran@flp fran]$ lxdoom -f /usr/share/games/doom/DOOM.WAD LxDoom v1.4.0 - By Colin Phipps (see

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-13 Thread Fran Parker
I looked at the .lxdoom in home/fran directory it is an empty file huh? Maybe that is the problem, huh? What is supposed to be there? I don't think it ever got far enough to write anything. (also yes, the wad file is in the /usr/share/games/doom directory and I did rename it to doom.wad I

Re: [newbie] Doom question...Hardware that works well?

2000-06-13 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
Spent a half hour writing a nice reply at work and then accidentally grabbed the resize edge instead of the slider. Boom. Gone. PC133 makes a noticeable difference. Faster ram is worth it. Sometimes you can overclock your ram but it is better to buy faster then overclock. Having said

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Fran Parker
Same here Ronald :) But I am having problems running lxdoom at all! I had an IWAD (I downloaded a zip file IWAD) and used Archiver to unzip it, it was a doom1.wad after unzipping. I left both in the home/fran directory, which is one of the places lxdoom looks for IWAD files but it still won't

Re: [newbie] Doom question...Hardware that works well?

2000-06-12 Thread michael
I want to build a doom/quake capable machine that linux loves. I need advice athlon/p3? video card/3dfx/matrox? sound card? is 128 megs enough? mb suggestions? \\=// ( @ @ ) ---oOO--(_)--OOo--- -michael-

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Fran Parker wrote: Same here Ronald :) But I am having problems running lxdoom at all! Hi Fran! Well, I put my doom1.wad in: /usr/share/games/doom The original wad file that came with the rpm should be there already. Hope this helps! ;-)

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Fran Parker
Thanks Ronald I will try that and let you know :) Bambi "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Fran Parker wrote: Same here Ronald :) But I am having problems running lxdoom at all! Hi Fran! Well, I put my doom1.wad in: /usr/share/games/doom The original wad file that came with the rpm

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Trevor Reynolds
e 12, 2000 5:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Doom question... Thanks Ronald I will try that and let you know :) Bambi "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Fran Parker wrote: Same here Ronald :) But I am having problems running lxdoom at all! Hi Fran! Well, I put my doom1.wad in:

Re: [newbie] Doom question...Hardware that works well?

2000-06-12 Thread Trevor Reynolds
. Trevor - Original Message - From: "michael" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Doom question...Hardware that works well? I want to build a doom/quake capable machine that linux loves. I need advice athlon/p3?

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Fran Parker
ubject: Re: [newbie] Doom question... Thanks Ronald I will try that and let you know :) Bambi "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Fran Parker wrote: Same here Ronald :) But I am having problems running lxdoom at all! Hi Fran! Well, I put my doom1.wad in: /

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Trevor Reynolds
Bambi, That's exactly what I did. Good luck! Trevor - Original Message - From: "Fran Parker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Doom question... Hi Trevor, would that be at the terminal window and typ

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Fran Parker
- From: "Fran Parker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Doom question... Hi Trevor, would that be at the terminal window and type lxdoom -f /usr/share/games/doom/DOOM.WAD I think I understood you

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-11 Thread J Walker
Even though this was not asked, I volunteer the question anyway, since I just installed lxdoom. lxdoom from Mandrake does not come with lxmusserv, which is necessary to play the music for Doom (IMHO, one of its best features). It can be found at:

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
J Walker wrote: Even though this was not asked, I volunteer the question anyway, since I just installed lxdoom. lxdoom from Mandrake does not come with lxmusserv, which is necessary to play the music for Doom (IMHO, one of its best features). It can be found at:

[newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I grabbed the rpm of Doom from my Mandrake 7.0 CD, and installed it via kpackage. It runs, as long as I use drakconf to set my desktop colors to 256. Is there any way to get it to run on my normal Voodoo 3000 setup? (1024 x 768 x 32bit). Thanks! PS and what about that ultra small window?

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-10 Thread Digital Wokan
He said the problem was his color depth, not his screen size. Trevor Reynolds wrote: Ronald, When you execute doom use "-1" or "-2" options, this will make the screen larger. Trevor "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Okay, I grabbed the rpm of Doom from my Mandrake 7.0 CD,

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-10 Thread Trevor Reynolds
OK, so I couldn't answer his main problem, but at least I could handle the PS! Digital Wokan wrote: He said the problem was his color depth, not his screen size. Trevor Reynolds wrote: Ronald, When you execute doom use "-1" or "-2" options, this will make the screen larger.

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-10 Thread Fran Parker
Actually he mentioned both. Bambi Digital Wokan wrote: He said the problem was his color depth, not his screen size. Trevor Reynolds wrote: Ronald, When you execute doom use "-1" or "-2" options, this will make the screen larger. Trevor "Ronald J. Hall" wrote:

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-10 Thread Digital Wokan
My apologies. I didn't see the PS. Maybe I should hide the flamethrower in the fridge so it doesn't light up so quickly. Trevor Reynolds wrote: OK, so I couldn't answer his main problem, but at least I could handle the PS! Digital Wokan wrote: He said the problem was his color

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-10 Thread Fran Parker
No worries :) Bambi Digital Wokan wrote: My apologies. I didn't see the PS. Maybe I should hide the flamethrower in the fridge so it doesn't light up so quickly. Trevor Reynolds wrote: OK, so I couldn't answer his main problem, but at least I could handle the PS! Digital Wokan

[newbie] doom on Mandrake

2000-02-10 Thread Jim Bruno Goldberg
Hi, people! I install a RPM to the doom game on my Mandrake 6 and when I try to run "sdoom", the game returns me a message: bash: /usr/games/sdoom: cannot execute binary file. The binary file in the message is the sdoom or another binary? Can anyone explain me something? Thank you. --

Re: [newbie] DOOM

2000-01-31 Thread David Odin (aka DindinX)
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:29:12AM +, Josh McCaffrey wrote: Well, in the quest to install Doom on my Linux-box, I downloaded lxDoom from tuxgames.com, and in the process have learned a bit more about how Linux works... After a little trial and error, I've gotten as far as 'make install',

Re: [newbie] DOOM

2000-01-31 Thread Josh McCaffrey
"David Odin (aka DindinX)" wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:29:12AM +, Josh McCaffrey wrote: Well, in the quest to install Doom on my Linux-box, I downloaded lxDoom from tuxgames.com, and in the process have learned a bit more about how Linux works... After a little trial and

Re: [newbie] DOOM

2000-01-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, you wrote: Well, in the quest to install Doom on my Linux-box, I downloaded lxDoom from tuxgames.com, and in the process have learned a bit more about how Linux works... After a little trial and error, I've gotten as far as 'make install', and get the msg "make: ***No

Re: [newbie] DOOM

2000-01-31 Thread Josh McCaffrey
John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, you wrote: Well, in the quest to install Doom on my Linux-box, I downloaded lxDoom from tuxgames.com, and in the process have learned a bit more about how Linux works... After a little trial and error, I've gotten as far as 'make install', and

Re: [newbie] DOOM

2000-01-31 Thread Thomas Wegner
Hi Josh! Am Mon, 31 Jan 2000 schrieb Josh McCaffrey: and get the msg "make: ***No rule to make target 'install'. stop" What rule do I need to make target install? This is not mentioned in I think the solution is very easy. You must type the full path or "./make" if you are in the directory of

[newbie] DOOM

2000-01-30 Thread Josh McCaffrey
Well, in the quest to install Doom on my Linux-box, I downloaded lxDoom from tuxgames.com, and in the process have learned a bit more about how Linux works... After a little trial and error, I've gotten as far as 'make install', and get the msg "make: ***No rule to make target 'install'. stop"