myk
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Alphawolf said:
Zdoom? Boom? Vanilla? Chocolate?
I tend to use vanilla to play single player, deathmatch and coop. I use the Doom+ patch so limits are raised (most "limit-removing" levels work with it.) Occasionally, I use PrBoom for vanilla multiplayer, if the two computers involved can't connect or run vanilla itself. I also use ZDaemon to play CTF on public servers.
entryway said:
cmd is not something people should use to run ports and vanilla :)
I use the DOS console for vanilla because editing a command line with doskey is better than editing the command line on a shortcut or batch file. In addition, I made a few batch files that shorten what I have to type to the minimal input needed. An example of what I could type:
15 2m 0 a v 5845av01
- That plays demo 5845av01.lmp (in a zip with the same name from subdir 1\a\av or rezipping it with the date of its latest file and moving it there if it was in my downloads folder)
- Using the Doom2 v1.9 engine (2m) and applying a DEH patch and also possibly a binary patch (such as for AV's par times) if they are in the WAD zip.
- If there's no DeHackEd patch in the WAD zip, it uses a generic one that clears IWAD level names and intermission texts.
- The 0 is the zip extension of the WAD, in case I have many WADs with the same name (av.wad is in a w\a\av.0 zip file.)
- Optional WADs, such as the movie fix or 1st release levels WADs for AV, can be added right after the demo name.
- The batch also adds a wilv.wad that blanks CWILV or WILV lumps to "level 1" and so on, loaded before the PWAD, so that the PWAD will overwrite it if it changes these lumps.
The 15.bat name means 1 (the dir with PWAD demos) plus 5 (the number of input variables, so I remember.) The recording batch is r6.bat, to name another.
The recording batch also automatically saves and zips the demo recorded in the corresponding folder, and I've got mutliplayer variants that either let you choose the player viewpoint (playback) or select the player color (recording).
All this took some time to set up, but now everything is easier to organize and use than before.
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