>Hi everybody,
>I just bought an Ultimate Doom CD that I found by accident in a "rummage
>stand" in a computer store. I only owned Doom 2 (floppy) before and am
>now able to play Ultimate Doom with JDoom.
>
>One thing that striked me was that Ultimate Doom was playable from CD.
>This came in handy as we are allowed to play after work in office, but
>only when the program is not installed on the harddisk (yeah, stupid
>rule, no JDoom, need DOS boot disk, etc.). On
>http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=225
I read that Doom 2 is
>playable from cd too.
>Now I need the files from the \doom2\doom2cd directory to be able to
>play Doom 2 also from CD. I do *not* need the wad file, as I already
>have it from my floppy disk version. Just XXDOOM2.EXE, XXSETUP.EXE and
>the .BAT and .TXT files (assuming filenames are similar to the ones of
>the Ultimate Doom cd).
>
>I couldn't find an official download for an "cd upgrade"? (id's homepage
>also seems to be in an unfinished state)
>Does or can somebody offer these files?
>I don't know about the legal aspect of this. The game itself (the WAD
>file with the game data) wouldn't be copied, and the Doom 2 sourcecode
>for the executable is publicly released for free. Should be ok, doesn't
it.
>Or can I somehow create this special Doom 2 excecutable with the
>released sourcecode? If so, how?
>Any help and information is greatly appreciated
>Regards
>Maddes
Do you have a CD-R or CD-RW drive? Install Doom2 on your
hard disk, and then copy (burn) the DOOM2.EXE, DM.EXE, SERDOOM.EXE
IPXDOOM.EXE (for network or nullmodem play), DOOM2.WAD, and ready made
Doom 2 *.cfg files (which reflects the configuration of your work
computer) from your Doom2 directory onto the CD using the appropriate
Cd-burning software. I recommend including whatever source ports you are
using (unzipped and ready to go), and any add on wads/levels that you want
to play while at the office on the CD as well. Make sure that all files
are
in the same directories, and if you have source ports that use their own
sub directories/folders in your Doom2 directory, make sure that they are
on the CD as well, in the Doom2 directory.
Please note that if you use the -cdrom parameter with the DOOM2
executable
(example DOOM2 -cdrom), it will create a directory called DOOMDATA in
the root directory of drive C:. You'll need to remove this directory and
it's
files once you are finished.
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