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                                DOOM On Da Miggy

                                  bY SKiDZ/A51

Time has marched on quite a bit since the last issue of BTF and by now
you all know that Doom has hit the Amiga.

Many of you will have even rushed out and bought Doom CD's in order to
play  the  full versions of Ultimate Doom and Doom II. And there's the
extra  CD's  too  such as The Master Levels for Doom II which has some
neat  levels  (Wads)  for Doom II plus around 300 extra wads on the CD
too.

Some  of  you  who  don't  have  access to a PC may not have tried the
Master  Levels,  seeing  as  they have been stored in PC format! Well,
help is at hand...

All you need is the Join command and a copy of LHA.

From the CLI/Shell, syply type:

Join Master.1 master.2 as Master.lha

You will now have the full LHA archive of the wad files containing the
Master Levels. Now simply un-lha the file.

(LHA x Master.lha) - Or via any un-arc util like DOpus etc.

You  may  get some errors, but it should un-arc fine enough for you to
use most, if not all of the extra wads. :)

There's  also  other  Doom CD's available too such as D!Zone 150 which
contains  150  extra  Wads  for Doom and Doom II. I'm also sure by the
time  you  read  this, many of you will have found plenty of web pages
full  of  wad  files.  I  won't  bother listing any here as I've never
looked at da web for 'em. I have far too many on CD at present :)

I  personally  use  DoomAttack to play Doom on my Amiga. It's fast and
works  very well, but most people seem to prefer ADoom coz it also has
music!

There  are  so  many choices and it's up to you to decide which one to
use.  However, when it comes to playing with your wads, it's a pain to
keep resorting to CLI/Shell to load them.

eg. ADoom -file Cave.Wad

Why  not  do  what i do and set up a script which can load the wad you
want from an icon?

Simply create a script via Ed like so...


; Change to Doom Dir...
;CD Work:Games/Doom
;
; Add extra buffers for speed up...
Addbuffers "" 400
;
; Set the stack required by your version of Doom...
Stack 150000 ; This could be set via the icon too if you like.
;
; Now load your Doom and wad...
ADoom -file Cave.wad
;
;

Save this to disk as eg.  Doom_Cave.game

Give  the  file  an  icons  if  it doesn't already have one. Alter the
icon's information and give it a default too of C:IconX.

Now  all  you  have to do is double click on it to play ADom with your
Wad.  You  could set up as many of these as ya like and shove 'em into
your Tools Daemon menu for easy starting :)

One point to note, if you quit doom and then load another, please note
that the buffers will keep being added to! So you may want to keep the
Addbuffers  and  Stack commands in a seperate Startup. I'll leave that
up to you.

There's  plenty  of  cheats out there for Doom also, but I bet you all
know 'em by now - right?

It  won't  be  long before certain companies join in the bandwagon and
start  selling  CD's full of Doom wads. I myself have asked Phil at F1
and  Vince  at Epic if they fancied releasing some, no reply came from
either  as I type this! But I know at least one of 'em will get around
to it - eventually. (eh Vince :)

If  any  of you have any Doom tips for un-arching wads from other Doom
CD's  created  for PC's, let us Amiga users know. We have the right to
play 'em too.

Feel free to email me on this subject too:

                  skidz@agasinc.demon.co.uk

That's all for this article. We are all Doomed ;þ

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