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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1156/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| I've searched the Internet before for the original Doom source code release by id Software. I think it's unusual that I can't really find it. Lucky for me, some friend of my packaged up what he believes to be his unmodified copy of the source release. Basing that it has a README.TXT file and two .tgz files, this is probably true. And here is my gift to anyone that wants it and doesn't already have it, or has it and wants to verify for me that it is unmodified: The Doom Engine Source (from a history I looked at, this should be just a bit after Final Doom's source) The source code is for GNU/Linux only. This is because id Software used a sound server for DOS that couldn't be released, since it was a proprietary system licensed to id. The Linux port used a brand-new sound server, and could be released at their will. There was a project called DosDOOM to re-port id's Doom source release back to DOS (funny since Doom was originally for DOS, then ported to Linux, and then ported to DOS again). If you want to use it on Windows or DOS, then go and find DosDOOM or one of the ports that already work on them. Do you want the game itself, and not just the engine? Well, too bad. Doom's engine was released under the GNU GPL, the games' IWADs still are proprietary and are WAREZ to redistribute over the Internet (oh, and other ways, but Internet is the most common). If you want to play Doom, here's a few options: 1. Go buy the game(s) from id Software's Web site. They still sell the originals. 2. If you're lucky, you'll find some store with a copy. 3. There was a release a while ago called the "Doom Collector's Edition". It has two CDs. One contains the games (with Doom95, a port for Windows 95, but also works on WinNT) of Doom, Doom II, and Final Doom. The other is a promotional media related to Doom 3. 4. If you're a cheap bastard, go get FreeDoom. It's a project aimed at making a free Doom2-compatible IWAD. Currently, it's far from finished. It'll look perfectly fine for total conversions (if you have no idea what that is, go look at Doom sites), because TCs don't use much, if any, resources from the IWAD. edit: If you mods don't think it's appropriate here, please move it. I had no idea where to give you people this. (edited by FreeDOS on 02-23-05 02:39 AM) |
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