Doom in Linux HOWTO

Hi again.

I've been working on a document to help people set up Doom in Linux via DOSEMU. Since DOSEMU is such an integral part of it, I'd appreciate any feedback or criticism from you guys. I know the subject is a bit narrow, but hey, you have to write about what you care about, right? :)

Also, Section 4.2 is still unwritten because of my tunnelling problems, I'm still not quite sure how to go about it. All input appreciated. :)

Temporary URL: http://home.powertech.no/sletner/doom-in-linux.html

DocBook XML source: http://home.powertech.no/sletner/doom-in-linux.xml
(for those interested.)

Stian Sletner

The only thing I have to mention is that the setup you're describing in insecure, so don't do this on a box where you have untrusted accounts. You don't mention that you can play DOOM in xdosemu (without root privileges). Of course that's slower than console dosemu DOOM but it is playable (at least it was for me the last time I tried it ;)

The manual copying problem will be fixed soon. I'm working on it.

Bart

* At 2002-12-07T23:47-0500, Bart Oldeman wrote:
:

| The only thing I have to mention is that the setup you're describing in
| insecure, so don't do this on a box where you have untrusted accounts.
| You don't mention that you can play DOOM in xdosemu (without root
| privileges). Of course that's slower than console dosemu DOOM but it is
| playable (at least it was for me the last time I tried it ;)

Thanks, I'll add a note about it.

| The manual copying problem will be fixed soon. I'm working on it.

Coo'.

Stian Sletner

hi stian,

one comment -- you're walking people through installing bleeding edge dosemu, but there's a problem with the latest patchset 1.1.3 where the compiling of a bison file fails.

the fix (in patch form) is here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.msdos.general/847

this link also mentions that dosemu users may want to use 2.4.19 or 2.4.20-pre since these kernels contain dosemu related patches. this email was written before 2.4.20 came out, so i'm assuming that 2.4.20 also contains the dosemu related patches.

the patch i mentioned is summarized here: in bisonpp.pl, change the line:

$rule =~ s/[ \t]*;\s*$//s;# remove trailing ';'

to this:

$rule =~ s/[ \t]*;\s*\n//s;# remove trailing ';'

i'm only mentioning this because patch sets come out so infrequently with dosemu that some of your readers may need to know this for a little while.

pete