prboom

Guest

installed all files for prboom.

put doom-1.8.wad in /usr/share/games/doom

get error message:

prboom v2.2.3 (http://prboom.sourceforge.net/)
Z_Init : Allocated 8064Kb zone memory
IdentifyVersion: IWAD not found

(slackware 8.1 on fast machine)

Guest

discovered I have to tell prboom about the wad file

bash-2.05a$ prboom -iwad /usr/share/games/doom/doom-1.8.wad

Guest

getting further but can't find file "doom-1.8" or find or find out how to make a prboom.cfg file.

(did read the documentation)

here is what I typed and the response I got:

bash-2.05a$ prboom -iwad /usr/share/games/doom/doom-1.8.wad

prboom v2.2.3 (http://prboom.sourceforge.net/)
Z_Init : Allocated 8064Kb zone memory
found /usr/share/games/doom/doom-1.8.wad
IWAD found: /usr/share/games/doom/doom-1.8.wad
PrBoom (built Aug 11 2002), playing: DOOM Shareware
PrBoom is released under the GNU General Public license v2.0.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
It comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. See the file COPYING for details.
M_LoadDefaults: Load system defaults.
default file: /home/bdc/.prboom//prboom.cfg
I_SetRes: Using resolution 320x200
V_Init: allocate screens.
found /usr/share/games/doom/prboom.wad
D_InitNetGame: Checking for network game.
W_Init: Init WADfiles.
adding /usr/share/games/doom/doom-1.8.wad
W_AddFile: couldn't open /usr/share/games/doom/doom-1.8
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Guest

Looks like file permissions to me.. Make sure that the .wad file is readable by whatever user you are running prboom as.

Guest

permission seems ok -can't seem to find the file doom-1.8 or the file prboom.cfg

error message:

W_AddFile: couldn't open /usr/share/games/doom/doom-1.8

Guest

your prboom.cfg file will be placed after a first run in /$HOME/.prboom/prboom.cfg

and as far as prboom not finding your wad file, it might help to add the extension to the filename "doom-1.8.wad" not just "doom-1.8"

lemme know if your still having probs.

Guest

hrm I just actually checked out the problem, it seems prboom has a parse error when it comes to files with more than one "." in them.

I renamed doom-1.8.wad to doom.wad and it worked fine.

Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 8:56 am Post subject:

tried renaming doom-1.8.wad to doom.wad

now I get a new error message:

W_GetNumForName: CRBRICK not found