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PrBoom
— source-faithful engine update of the FPS game Doom

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Category: First Person Shooter | Year: 1993

License: GPL (code), Proprietary freeware (content) © 1993 id Software.

Doom is a the classic 3d shoot-'em-up game written by id Software. It was released in 1993 and the source was released in 1997.

PrBoom is a version of Doom using the Simple Direct Media layer (SDL) library. It is based on MBF and LxDoom, which in turn are based on Boom, an early free port of Doom for DOS.

PrBoom requires an IWAD to play. The shareware Doom IWAD is installed by default. A free IWAD is available in the freedoom package. You can put your commercial Doom IWADs into /opt/doom/wads to play those or follow this these instructions to set them up to run from a place of your choosing with a separate icon.
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Links: Previous discussion | Commercial WADs | Doomworld | Wikipedia

Versions
Stable (extras)
prboom-2.5.0-svn20091231-0maemo2

To start a game, press Enter before the demo playback begins, or Backspace at any point.

Controls:

Fn - fire (left thumb goes here)
Shift / Z - strafe left/right (below left thumb)
Ctrl - run (above left thumb)
a - strafe (right of left thumb)
weapons - top row of keyboard (correspond to number keys)
backspace - open menu/back to previous menu
, - escape the menu
. - next weapon
space - activate
p - pause. You can also switch away to other windows and the game will automatically pause and go to sleep so it doesn't kill your battery. Bringing PrBoom back into focus will unpause it. Be ready!

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Basically the controls are clustered around the fire button on the left (Fn) and the arrow keys on the right.

Have a fragging good time.


Freedoom WAD Package

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Last edited by Flandry; 2010-04-12 at 01:46. Reason: Linked to some great instructions
 

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