Doom with sound on NS/OS?

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Title: Doom with sound on NS/OS?
Post by: armus2112 on October 15, 2008, 06:57:11 PM
Is there a way to play Doom with sounds?

I see:

http://next.68k.org/ftp.peak.org/next/apps/games/DoomSounds.NI.b.tar.gz

so it's making me wonder.

thanks all

armus2112
Title: Doom with sound on NS/OS?
Post by: RacerX on October 17, 2008, 05:31:59 PM
I have no idea if I have sound or not (as my ThinkPad doesn't support sound), but this is the version of Doom (http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/Archive/NEXTSTEP/DoomII/) that I'm use (ported by the Omni Group).

And I have yet to find a version of Doom for NeXT or Rhapsody systems that supports the extra levels of Ultimate DOOM... Just FYI.
Title: Doom with sound on NS/OS?
Post by: armus2112 on October 17, 2008, 06:48:53 PM
Thanks RacerX!

I downloaded that version, and copied 'DOOM2.WAD' from my old Macintosh Doom2 CD (renamed to 'doom2.wad' lowercase), and I copied in the sounds into subfolder under 'DoomII.app' named 'DoomSounds' and it works WITH SOUND!

Couldn't get Ultimate Doom to work, get an error "W_GetNumForName: Sttminus not found!". Also the doom1.wad I had sitting here had same error I believe. I think this error means the WADs are too outdated for the app, from my googling.

openstep:/NextApps/DoomII.app >ls -l
total 17005
-rwxrwxr-x  1 ff       2636140 Sep 26  1995 DoomII*
drwxr-xr-x  2 ff          2048 Jun 15  1995 DoomSounds/
drwxrwxr-x  3 ff          1024 Sep 26  1995 English.lproj/
-rw-rw-r--  1 ff          2020 Oct 11  1994 doom.tiff
-rw-rw-r--  1 ff        135006 Aug 30  1994 doom1.tiff
-rw-r--r--  1 ff       14604584 Oct 17 19:34 doom2.wad

armus2112
Title: Doom with sound on NS/OS?
Post by: helf on October 18, 2008, 08:56:58 AM
oh nice. :)
Title: Doom with sound on NS/OS?
Post by: armus2112 on October 20, 2008, 01:02:57 PM
This is what I did to create a .sh wrapper to run Doom in 'scale 2' which runs it in a larger window...

Is this the proper way to do such a thing?

openstep:/NextApps >cat DoomTwo.sh

#!/bin/csh
csh -c "nohup /NextApps/DoomII.app/DoomII -scale 2 &"
exit

Again, I had to use this approach of calling csh with '-c' to run a command in order for this to work properly. If I leave that out and use nohup by itself, DoomII is choppy.  :?

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