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- Doom Legacy Launcher
- by Denis Fabrice (faB) / team Legacy
-
- Doom Legacy Home page:
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- http://www.frag.com/doomlegacy
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- E-mail comments, suggestions, bug reports :
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- legacy@frag.com
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- FOREWORD
-
- Welcome to Doom Legacy Launcher, 'DLL' in short.
- Our goal when creating this program is to make using
- Doom Legacy as user-friendly as possible.
-
-
- CONTENTS
- 1. Setting Up
- 2. Display/Sound Options
- 3. Game Options
- 4. Demos
- 5. Multiplayer
- 6. Tips
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-
-
- [ 1. SETTING UP ]
-
- To begin playing Doom Legacy you will need to tell the
- Launcher where to find the Doom Legacy executable, as well as
- where to find the different Doom versions that you have.
-
- On the main window, click 'Setup...', then to the right
- of the text box titled 'Doom Legacy Program', click the button
- and select the executable file (doom3.exe) where you have
- installed it on your harddrive.
-
- In the 'Select Game WAD file' section, click the buttons
- on the right and locate each of your Doom game's main WAD file.
- For example Doom1 uses 'doom.wad', Doom2 uses 'doom2.wad'.
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- You can choose which Doom version to play at any time,
- by clicking one of the radio buttons in this window.
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-
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- [ 2. DISPLAY AND SOUND OPTIONS ]
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- Click the 'Display/Sound..' button on the main window
- to access Doom Legacy's game configuration settings.
-
- - Render mode :
- choose 'software' for the good old' 256 color software
- mode.
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- choose '3Dfx Glide' only if you have a 3Dfx-chipset
- based graphics card, and you have the latest Glide
- drivers installed (version 3 or later).
-
- Tip: use the 'F5' key to access the video modes menu
- while you are in the game.
-
- - Use Joystick :
- choose one of the attached Joysticks to use in Doom
- Legacy. This is useful if you have more than one
- Joystick connected (eg: a classic joystick, and a
- gamepad), you can choose which one you prefer to use.
-
- - Cooperative sound :
- when enabled, other programs playing sound through
- 'DirectSound' will be able to play while Doom Legacy
- is running. For example you could disable the MIDI
- music, and play MP3's in the background.
-
- when DISABLED, you might get a better sound quality
- and volume control since Doom Legacy will have full
- control of the sound output.
-
- - Disable Sound, Midi Music, CD Audio, Mouse :
- these are trouble-shooting options, in case one of
- these devices doesn't work well on your computer,
- you can prevent Doom Legacy from using it.
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- If you always use CD music, you might want to turn
- off the MIDI music, to free some resources.
-
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- [ 3. GAME OPTIONS ]
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- This section will probably change and many more
- options will be added. For now, it is undocumented, but
- the options are probably self-explanatory.
-
- Currently, the only way to add wad files with
- the launcher is to enter them in the 'Command-Line Options'
- box, for example:
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- -file hipafrag.wad sknpack1.wad
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- Don't forget to check 'Always use these options'.
- If you don't, the parameters you have typed are lost the
- next time you run the launcher.
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-
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- [ 4. DEMOS ]
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- The demo section shows a directory of LMP's from
- the same directory than the current selected IWAD (in
- Game Setup). You can delete demos (Del button), Edit
- parameters that are saved in demos (Edit button), and
- play back your demos with whatever parameters you have
- entered in the demos before.
-
- The Demo section provides the same functionality
- that my old utility named 'lmpmast'. Click on demos to
- see their parameters, double-click a demo to play it
- back.
-
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- [ 5. MULTIPLAYER ]
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- This section is in development and not yet available.
-
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- [ 6. TIPS ]
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- - The Launcher can create a shortcut for you on the desktop
- or in the Start Menu. See the 'Misc Options' page in the
- Help window.
-
- - On the main window, below the title picture, you can see
- the current settings of the main options, like the configu-
- ration and main WAD file being used.
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- - Playing MP3's while Doom Legacy runs : if you use 'WinAmp'
- or another MP3 player, make sure it is set to use
- 'DirectSound' as output, and enable the 'Cooperative sound'
- option in the 'Display/Sound' section of the Launcher.
-
- - The EXE specified in a demo must be in the same directory
- than the current selected EXE in 'Game Setup' panel.
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- [ KNOWN BUGS ]
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- - Demos doesn't use the IWAD/EXE from the demo parameters,
- only wad files are passed for now.
-
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- [ CREDITS ]
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- Doom Legacy add-on is based on the Doom sources released
- publicly by Id Software.
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- Doom Legacy additions and the Doom Legacy Launcher are
- developed by Denis Fabrice and Boris Pereira.
-
- Doom Legacy & Doom Legacy Launcher are FREEWARE. If you
- have paid for this, e-mail us: legacy@frag.com
-