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Re: [LUG] graphical front end to a game

 

On 13/03/13 22:53, Paul Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just been playing prboom which is a clone of the doom game from about
> 1993,  if you remember doom it had loads of command line options, in
> addition the dos version had a nice gui type interface in dos that you
> clicked on certain options and it would pass these to the game for example
>
> doom -warp13 -respawn would start doom,  warp to e1m3 and respawn monsters,
>
> so the gui would allow you to set these options,  hit OK and then have
> it pass the specified arguments (??) to the game.
>
> I want to do something similar,   but am not sure on the best software
> to do this,  I can use a nice xorg type gui program OR something like
> ncurses which will work on the command line and from a window,  the
> latter would be better.
>
> any suggestions welcome, and YES i have googled but never having done
> this before would like a suggestion as to what i can use.
>
> It needs to be fairly simple,  
>
> Paul
>

man prboom

This page seems to have a summary of the options as well, perhaps this
is what you're looking for?

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man6/prboom.6.html

Cheers

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