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Originally Posted by garen

is this game playable? whenever i try to play it, it just plays a video
if it is playable, can u explain how to play it in a very nontechnical manner (im not very good with electronics)
thanks
~garen

Originally Posted by Flandry

The search bar in the upper right is available to techies and not.

First post of this thread describes how to start a game.

Originally Posted by garen

the reason i made a new topic was because i didnt understand what the hell was being said in this topic

Originally Posted by Flandry

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!

Originally Posted by Binonic Knee View Post

I am having problems with keys, well 'key' I can't select options in the menu. I can bring up the menu and move up and down with the cursor keys but can't select anything, meaning I can't start a game...

HELP!!!

I have prBoom 2..5.0 on N900

That is very strange; i haven't had any other problem reports from those with localized keyboards. What language is your keyboard in by default?

Originally Posted by cure

In order to prevent renaming or moving wads when wanting to switch between The Ultimate Doom and Doom II: Hell on Earth, I've made two new desktop shortcuts and copied my retail DOS/Windows Doom and Doom II installs over to the VFAT portion of the N900's memory via USB. The paths being:

Code:

/home/user/MyDocs/games/doom/
/home/user/MyDocs/games/doom2/

Make sure dirs and filenames are in lower case.
To make a new Doom shortcut, open xterm, then:

Code:

cd /usr/share/applications/hildon/
cp prboom.desktop doom.desktop

Use leafpad, vi or whatever to edit doom.desktop:

Code:

vi doom.desktop

Replace:

Code:

Name=PrBoom

With:

Code:

Name=Doom

Edit the Exec line so it looks like this:

Code:

Exec=/opt/prboom/prboom -iwad /home/user/MyDocs/games/doom/doom.wad

Now make another shortcut for Doom II:

Code:

cd /usr/share/applications/hildon/
cp doom.desktop doom2.desktop

Use leafpad or vi to edit doom2.desktop:

Code:

vi doom2.desktop

Replace:

Code:

Name=Doom

With:

Code:

Name=Doom II

Edit the Exec line so it looks like this:

Code:

Exec=/opt/prboom/prboom -iwad /home/user/MyDocs/games/doom2/doom2.wad

Now we should have working Doom and Doom II shortcuts.
I've also deleted the shareware doom1 wad and prboom desktop shorcut after checking it all worked:

Code:

rm /home/opt/doom/wads/doom.wad
rm /usr/share/applications/hildon/prboom.desktop

Slightly off topic: Now with Doom and Doom II being last, I've actually have all the fps games on my N900 set up to load the game media from the VFAT portion of the N900's memory (accessible from USB), so I basically just copied my dos/windows installs over to /home/user/MyDocs/games/. The .sh scripts and desktop shortcuts on my N900 are set up to accommodate this. This way its really easy to throw some mission packs and mods in for the quake games, without too much hassle. To finish it off, one could easily optify the binaries that aren't optified by moving stuff around.

folders:

Code:

/home/user/MyDocs/games/wolf3d/
/home/user/MyDocs/games/sod/
/home/user/MyDocs/games/doom/
/home/user/MyDocs/games/doom2/
/home/user/MyDocs/games/duke3d/
/home/user/MyDocs/games/quake/
/home/user/MyDocs/games/quake2/
/home/user/MyDocs/games/quake3/

command lines (bash scripts):

• edited /usr/bin/wolf3d to look for the new path
• edited /usr/bin/spearofdestiny to look for the new path
• /opt/prboom/prboom -fullscreen -width 800 -height 480 -iwad /home/user/MyDocs/games/doom/doom.wad "$*"
• /opt/prboom/prboom -fullscreen -width 800 -height 480 -iwad /home/user/MyDocs/games/doom2/doom2.wad "$*"
• edited /usr/bin/duke3d to look for the new path
• /opt/quake/sdlquake -basedir /home/user/MyDocs/games/quake -heapsize 65536 -zone 512 -noipx -nocdaudio -winsize 800 480 -fullscreen "$*"
• /opt/quake2/sdlquake2 +set cddir /home/user/MyDocs/games/quake2 +set basedir /opt/quake2 +set sw_mode 15 "$*"
• /usr/bin/ioquake3.arm +set fs_basepath /home/user/MyDocs/games/quake3 +set r_customwidth 800 +set r_customheight 480 +set r_mode -1 "$*"

Originally Posted by tHMZ

So THIS horribly hard-looking code is required to play Doom II?