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DooMBoy

Source Port Query

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How come PrBoom, EDGE, Legacy, and glBoom (and probably others) don't have the 'click-and-drag-and-then-drop-to-load-up-and-play' WAD-playing thing that ZDoom has? It's so much easier to just click and drag than it is to open up the MS-DOS window and type something in.
So, how come?

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There is such a thing called batch files... I even use them for Zdoom. This way, I can get my PSX music, PSX sound, iwad, and as many wads as I want. Next best thing to a frontend. Drag and Drop... bah.

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How come PrBoom, EDGE, Legacy, and glBoom (and probably others) don't have the 'click-and-drag-and-then-drop-to-load-up-and-play' WAD-playing thing that ZDoom has?

Uhhhh... probably because most people aren't gonna waste time browsing through hundreds or thousands of files for a WAD, dragging around multiple windows or waiting a whole minute for the current window to scroll down to ZDoom just to load a damn WAD. It's nice if the WAD is right next to the EXE in the folder window, which is, oh, NEVER.

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Hey Lüt,
that was funny: I just was going to reply in the "Way offtopic" thread, and when I was redirected, I awake in bright green :). Cool, now I have had the last word, thanx.

:D

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No, actually, I have the last word ;)

I dunno how you posted in there after I moved it, but don't do that.

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Hm... usually the reply doesn't work if it's already been moved... I guess you hit reply before it had been moved. Oh well.

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Do this: create a file in new file in notepad and write the following into it:

@echo off
prboom -file %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

Substitute "prboom" for your favourite port. Save it as "zdoomwad.bat". Now drag and drop wads onto it to load them.

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Do this: create a file in new file in notepad and write the following into it:

@echo off
prboom -file %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

Substitute "prboom" for your favourite port. Save it as "zdoomwad.bat". Now drag and drop wads onto it to load them.


I do it so that I change it's properties to say in the "command line" field:

D:\DOOM\ZDOOM.BAT ?

Now in this example when I run it it asks for command line parameters to pass for it. I don't have to mess with ms-dos prompt and stuff, and I can load/do whatever I want.

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I just selected 1 wad, used the "open with option" selectd zdoom and "always use this for this type of file" option, now I just double click any wad and it opens in zdoom :)

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How come PrBoom, EDGE, Legacy, and glBoom (and probably others) don't have the 'click-and-drag-and-then-drop-to-load-up-and-play' WAD-playing thing that ZDoom has?


Erm. Isn't this the feature that was introduced by Boom v2.02, which _is_ supported by prboom and glboom?
It's a loong time since I used -file. OTOH I don't use the Windo$e versions so I could be wrong.

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