2 Chocolate Doom installation
3 ===========================
5 These are instructions for how to install and set up Chocolate Doom
8 Building Chocolate Doom
9 -----------------------
11 Before you can play Chocolate Doom, you need to compile a binary that
12 you can run. If you are using Windows or Mac OS X, precompiled
13 binaries are available on the website for download, and you can skip
16 For compilation, Chocolate Doom requires the following to be installed:
18 * A C compiler (gcc is recommended)
19 * make (GNU make is recommended)
20 * LibSDL (see http://www.libsdl.org/)
21 * SDL_mixer (see http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/)
22 * SDL_net (see http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net/)
25 Follow the standard instructions for installing an autotools-based
28 1. Run './configure' to initialize the package.
29 2. Run 'make' to compile the package.
30 3. Run 'make install' to install the package.
32 Advanced topics such as cross-compilation are beyond the scope of this
33 document. Please see the GNU autoconf / automake documentation for more
36 Obtaining an IWAD file
37 ----------------------
39 To play Doom, you need an IWAD file. This file contains the game data
40 that is used in gameplay (graphics, sounds, etc). The full versions of
41 the Doom games are proprietary and need to be bought. The IWAD file
42 has one of the following names:
44 doom1.wad (Shareware Doom)
45 doom.wad (Registered / Ultimate Doom)
47 tnt.wad (Final Doom: TNT: Evilution)
48 plutonia.wad (Final Doom: Plutonia Experiment)
51 If you don't have a copy of the commercial version, you can download
52 the shareware version (extract the file named doom1.wad):
54 * http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=7053
55 (idstuff/doom/win95/doom95.zip in your nearest /idgames mirror)
57 If you have a commercial version, obtaining the IWAD file may slightly
58 complicated. The method depends on how you obtained your copy of the
61 * There have been several CD-based versions of Doom. Generally, the
62 IWAD files can be found on the CD and copied off directly.
64 * The IWAD files might not be directly available on the CD. Look for
65 a program named "deice.exe". In the same directory, there should
66 be a single large file with a numbered extension (eg.
67 "resource.1"); to extract this, follow the same instructions as for
68 the floppy disk version (see below).
70 * If you have the floppy disk version of Doom, first copy the
71 contents of all the floppy disks into a directory together. You
72 will have several large files with numbered extensions.
73 Concatenate these into a single file, eg.
76 cat doom_se.1 doom_se.2 doom_se.3 doom_se.4 doom_se.5 > doom_se.exe
78 (Windows/DOS instructions)
79 copy doom_se.1+doom_se.2+doom_se.3+doom_se.4+doom_se+5 doom_se.exe
81 The resulting file is self-extracting LHA file. If you have a DOS
82 emulator (such as DOSbox), you can run it to extract the files;
83 alternatively, you can use the Unix LHA tool to extract the
86 * The Doom games are also available for download on Steam
87 (http://www.steampowered.com/). To find the IWAD files, look in
88 your Steam directory, under the "steamapps/common" path.
93 When you have an IWAD file, install it through one of the following
96 * Under Mac OS X, you can specify the locations of the IWAD files
97 through the graphical launcher program. Click the "Configure..."
98 button, and then click "Set..." for each IWAD location to choose
101 * Under Unix, put the file into the /usr/share/games/doom or
102 /usr/local/share/games/doom directories.
104 * Place it in a directory and set the environment variable DOOMWADDIR
105 to be the path to that directory.
107 * Install multiple IWADs into separate directories and set the
108 environment variable DOOMWADPATH to be a colon-separated list of
109 directories to search (similar to the Unix PATH environment
112 * Run Chocolate Doom with the '-iwad' command line parameter to
113 specify the IWAD file to use, eg.
115 chocolate-doom -iwad /root/doom2.wad
117 Playing with Chex Quest
118 -----------------------
120 Chex Quest is a game based on Doom with some minor modifications that
121 was distributed with boxes of Chex cereal in 1997. It is possible to
122 play Chex Quest using Chocolate Doom. To do this, the following files
125 * The IWAD file 'chex.wad', from the Chex Quest CD.
127 * The dehacked patch 'chex.deh', which can be found in the /idgames
128 repository in utils/exe_edit/patches/chexdeh.zip.
130 Copy these files into a directory together and use the '-iwad' command
131 line parameter to specify the Chex Quest IWAD file:
133 chocolate-doom -iwad chex.wad
138 Chocolate Doom requires a Doom 1.9 IWAD file. Generally, if you
139 install a recent version of Doom you should automatically have a 1.9
140 IWAD. However, if you are installing from a very old CD version or
141 from floppy disks, you might find you have an older version.
143 The most obvious symptom of an out of date IWAD file is that the game
144 will exit at the title screen before the demo starts, with the message
145 "Demo is from a different game version!". If this happens, your IWAD
146 file is out of date and you need to upgrade.
148 Id Software released upgrade patches that will update your game to
149 1.9. The following sites have the patches:
151 http://www.doomworld.com/files/patches.shtml
152 http://www.doom2.net/doom2/utils.html
153 ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/doom2
155 As the patches are binary patches that run as DOS executables, you
156 will need a DOS emulator (such as DOSBox) to install them.
161 Support for Doom's MIDI music is available through Timidity:
163 http://timidity.sourceforge.net/
165 A good set of patches for Timidity is the eawpats collection, which can
168 http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=13928
169 (Doom idgames archive, /sounds/eawpats.zip)
171 If compiling from source, be sure to compile and install timidity
172 before installing SDL_mixer.