What's up with doom?

I was recently informed that there is a version of Doom for the Amiga.

After a quick search on the web, what i found amounts to what appear to be a shareware or freeware file called VDoom68k of 375kb in size.

No explanation whatsoever as to how to run it or its requirements.

Can anyone provide me with more details here?

Thank you all.

[countzero]

never heard of VDoom, but there's ADoom which runs great on my 68040 A3000 (native ECS). I heard it also runs good on fast 68030. There's also DoomAttack if you have AGA or Gfx card.

countzero wrote:
never heard of VDoom, but there's ADoom which runs great on my 68040 A3000 (native ECS). I heard it also runs good on fast 68030. There's also DoomAttack if you have AGA or Gfx card.

VDoom was found here: http://devnull.owl.de/~frank/Doom_e.html

[Jeff]

Some stuff here to look at.

http://www.doomworld.com/ports/amiga.shtml

[TjLaZer]

All these DOOMs are simply front ends from the freely distributed code released in the late 90's.  To use them you need the .WAD file from any version of DOOM.

[LoadWB]

I've also used ADoom with the WADs from the commercial releases of Doom, Doom 2, and a couple of others which came in a Doom pack.  Works pretty well on an '060 with Picasso IV on a 4000.  Also runs well on an '060 with Spectrum on a 2000 (I would think the Zorro II bus would be much slower, but not so much in practice.)

 :madashell:

This software is not a very rewarding experience so far. All I have is a series of incomprehensible error messages.

I copied my Doom2.wad file in the doomwad_ft directory. This wad file works well with Doom for Win95.

added edit:
What a dumbass I am... all that was needed is to put the wad files in the same folder as the program itself.


Works fine now. Nice game so far!

Can anyone recommend similar or better 3D 1st person shooters like that ?

[Methuselas]

Get Duke Nukem3D. *WAY* better. There's a shareware version, I released a few years back. I don't know if it's still available. I have a copy of it, though, if anyone wants to host it. Don't {bleep} about all the dos files, 'cos I just packaged it with an unpacked shareware release. It was the only way I could think of, without violating 3DRealm' EULA. The original coder on the project dropped out and I haven't heard from him, since.


Note, I just packaged the shareware version and made sure it ran. (Only "bug" is the fact it looks for Plutonium Wav files that aren't there, but doesn't crash.) :-D

hummm... must be doing something wrong here...

The game works fine for pretty much everything except the music.

Is there something I should do/have done ?

Thank you all once again!

Added edit:
That's ADoom1.3 I have no music with, not DukeNukem3D.

I'll be sure to look for DN3D if its a good implementation. Thx Methuselas!

[Flashlab]

Duke3D on Amiga is no fun IMHO! There's only a semi-complete port with no music and it's a bit slow.

For music with ADoom you need to download extra audio files from Aminet. Look for ADoom_Ins(http://aminet.net/search?query=adoom_ins).

Doomattack is better IMHO; it has music too and it's faster.

[LaserBack]

there is no sense to play doom on the amiga while there is a fantastic high quality port of doom with high quality textures and super-light-effects

The best port of doom is here:

http://www.doomsdayhq.com


to see diferences...some screenshots here:

http://www.doomsdayhq.com/ss.php

[Flashlab]

@Laserback

Sigh, this is an Amiga forum. Some people like to see what they can do on an Amiga.

Edit:
Aren't you that guy that spammed these forums before with the nick Laser? What happened, got banned and made a new account? I read some of your other posts and I doubt you will be here for a long time...

bye Flashlab

[adonay]

i used Adoom never got around too any music in the game but it did run fine on my bppc 060... cant remeber think i had some warp\pup version too  


.. o and btw if you have a 060 you are able to play quake "1" as well with aga

[derringer3]

Duke nukem a bit slow? On my 68040 the speed is about 3-4 fps. Maybe if it has a ppc port, but no luck. However doom running smothly on my machine.

[Flashlab]

Well on my 060 it's playable but a bit jerky. But the lack of music makes it boring.