Subject: doom "ported" to NetBSD
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/28/1997 14:25:18
Folks,
        Since id has been kind enough to release the source for DooM
we can now have a native binary of DooM.  I have compiled up DooM for
i386 - it was very close to being a straight compile as the source
released was for the Linux X windows version.  If anyone wants
the fixes then let me know and I will generate a patch.  I have
uploaded the binaries (doom & sndserver) into the incoming directory
of ftp.netbsd.org, the file is called netbsdoom.tar.z (note the
spelling here, one 'd' only!).  You will need to have either a copy of
the shareware game or have bought the registered copy to play as all I
have provided are the required binaries - the DOS versions of all the
other files are perfectly acceptable.  You will also need a 16bit
sound card.

NetBSDdoom works fine with both DooM and DooM II, I have not tested
uDooM or the Final DooM but they are claimed to work.

BTW has anyone got the documentation for the Linux Sound system?  I
want to decode the meanings of the ioctl's they use in initialising
the audio device - my attempts at emulating the setups failed
miserably but using the linux calls with libossaudio works fine

-- 
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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