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Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Paul Sutton wrote:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have the old DOS version of doom with the full wad file, under ubuntu there is a free version of this, and a copy of the shareware wad file that came with the original doom how would i go about extracting the main doom wad file from the doom cdrom, so i can play the full doom on ubuntu ? i am guessing i would have to install dosbox, instlal doom from that,No need - if you've installed doom under ubuntu then you're all set...then perhaps copy the files over to where I want, is this correct, or is there a way to insert the dos doom cdrom and get at the wad file so I can use it on ubuntu,apt-get install prboomthen search the cd-rom for the WAD file - it's not hidden in any way at all - just mount it and find it.Then play doom using prboom --file=doom.wad Not that I've done this myself, but ...
...and for those of us who don't have the original Doom, there is this... http://www.nongnu.org/freedoom/It's a Free Doom WAD which replaces all the non-free components (graphics, sounds, levels etc) with a free version released under 'a modified BSD license). Couple that with the GPL'd Doom engine and I dare say you have a few hours of gaming fun.
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