Guest PRINCEofNIGHTMARES Posted April 5, 2003 Report Share Posted April 5, 2003 HI, I'm a complete n00b to Linux. I'm also a VERY big fan of old DOS games like DOOM, DOOM II, Duke Nukem 3D and their ilk. Can these games be played on linux? Are there other games like this that I could find for free for linux? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 5, 2003 Report Share Posted April 5, 2003 currently Duke Nukem 3D source has just been released under GPL, and I believe a port is in the works (DOlson posted about this I believe). I'm not sure about Doom and Doom II tho. I do know, however, that Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2003 both run in linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted April 5, 2003 Report Share Posted April 5, 2003 DOOM was one of the first games I've ever played under linux :) there are a few linux ports of DOOM. The last one I played is "prboom": http://prboom.sourceforge.net/ http://prboom.sourceforge.net/about.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHattr Posted April 5, 2003 Report Share Posted April 5, 2003 yea theres lots of games like that you can play like Heratic, Doom, Doom2, Quake 1, Quake II, Duke 3D, Rise of the Triads, Blood, Postal and im sure there are still more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83mercedes Posted April 6, 2003 Report Share Posted April 6, 2003 If you are using Mandrake 9.1, or 9.0 for that matter, find & install these files: (do a google search, or whatever) prboom-2.2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm prboom-gl-2.2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm When you install these, it will complain about missing dependancies, but do it anyway. If I remember right, a newer version will not work ( I think it was 2.2.3-1). Anyway after those are installed, put doom1.wad from your doom CD in /usr/share/games/doom Then you can type prboom.gl in a console, and play! Good luck! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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