Doom (activity)
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Doom is a first person shooter game with content that is probably not suitable for young children, but is great fun for older ones.
Freedoom is a free software clone of Doom, based on improvements made to Doom's 3d engine with new maps and monsters.
How to install Doom bundle
This file has been compromised by a hacker. It should be removed, but I don't see the original version.
Click Doom-1.xo to download Doom. Then install as usual.
This is tested working in shipping builds, not tested with rainbow security enabled, yet.
Video of Doom played on the OLPC
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How to install manually
The following instructions need to be run from the Terminal activity. You will need a working internet connection on your OLPC for the install only. The instructions worked on a B4 OLPC laptop running Build 650.
- Open the terminal
- Switch to the root user, by typing:
su -
...and entering the root password, if requested to.
- Then type
yum install prboom
- The download is about 18MB, so will take a few minutes.
- When you get a prompt again, type:
exit
- To run Doom, type
prboom
Changing Doom to run in full screen mode
To run in full screen mode, type:
prboom -geom 1200x900
To permanently adjust Freedoom to run in full screen mode all the time, type:
cd /home/olpc/.prboom nano prboom.cfg
This will open the freedoom configuration file in the nano text editor. Find the two lines in the file with the words:
width 640 height 480
And change them to:
width 1200 height 900
Then type ctrl-x to exit, and type y to save your changes. Now, Freedoom should run in full screen mode when you type
prboom34
Help
I installed this by downloading the .xo file and then I tried changing the graphics mode to OpenGL and now it won't start. I tried removing it and re-installing it, but it still won't start. I think my (poor choice of) settings were not reset when I did that.
Game settings (all activity settings actually) are found in your .sugar/ directory. Just remove the .sugar/default/org.laptop.doom directory to clear saved settings after you remove the activity, and then re-install.
Hint, don't try the OpenGL video mode.
See also
- The offical Freedoom homepage
- Another video of Freedoom on the OLPC
- The OLPCNews forum page about Freedoom on the xo
Activity Summary
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| URL from which to download the latest .xo bundle | Activity bundle::http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Doom-1.xo |
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| URL from which to download the last .xo bundle that works with old releases | Activity bundle::http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Doom-1.xo |
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