DRD Team

KitsuKun wrote: This sort of fries Skull Tag and zDaemon as you mentioned. (They diserve it, especially with the Nasty email I got after I offerend to fix the zDaemon code to compile for Linux again. Screw them.)

What do you expect from a team of idiots? The mere fact that they refuse to update to a more modern code base speaks volumes.

Is this still being worked on? That would be most un(EDIT: UN)fortunate.

Edit: Most unfortunate if it were not worked on, sorry for the misunderstanding if there was one. I would like to see this fixed. Crap, posted that and didn't pay attention, sorry about that.

I'm still holding out on that Amiga OS or BeOS port.

So erm,
what about it?
Is it just dead or what is it?

if only i knew enough C to code OpenGL stuff, then i could help with this :p
(i know some C but 0% of OpenGL stuff)

i'd like to know about this too, seeing as i voted to help, as in test since i'm not a programmer...

awh damnit.. I wish I could program. Having this engine on Linux would be godly.

no kiddin. i was digging around the net to find a good 2d doom port/engine for linux and afaict there isn't a modern one. i just use gzdoom via wine. some of the glitches/bugs/crashes i mentioned before seem to be fixed with the newer releases of wine. (i.e. 0.9.42).

just a potential tip to ppl, this worked for me, maybe if others have this problem it will help...

i noticed i could play gzdoom in fullscreen or windowed with quite good performance on a system that is 5 years old. but then i changed something with wine's configuration (for another game) and unwittingly "broke" gzdoom with wine. i say "broke", but actually, it made gzdoom unplayable. (it ran at ~1fps). i finally narrowed down the problem: (for some reason) i disabled the option of "Driver Emulation" for the audio config. as i said before, (and i don't know if this a wine bug or a gzdoom/zdoom limitation/bug) disabling audio (Driver Emulation) made gzdoom unplayable at ~1fps.

has anyone on windows experienced poor performance with gzdoom when disabling audio?

Vapourware? :/

Nash wrote:Vapourware? :/

apparently, unfortunately.

disturbedite wrote:i was digging around the net to find a good 2d doom port/engine for linux and afaict there isn't a modern one.

ZDoom and Skulltag run native on Linux (though Skulltag's GL mode doesn't, so you're stuck on software until GZDoom works on Linux.)

i didn't know zdoom and skulltag have native linux versions! sorry for the ignorance. thanks HeX_Vulture. i've used skulltag on windows before but i will try them both on linux, thanks again.

UPDATE:
neither worked....i had skulltag working and then i edited (very carefully) the config file and it borked skulltag. so i delete it, set up the waddir, and then select the wad i want but then it launches for about a second and then quits without any output/error....
same exact problem with zdoom :/

UPDATE #2:
i managed to get zdoom & skulltag to work on linux, i had to install timidity from the repos. with skulltag i get the same framerate as gzdoom w/ wine tho, ha! but zdoom is herky jerky (with mouselook), i can't figure out why, no matter what i mess with in the control/input keys & options...

I myself am seriously considering switching from Windoze over to Linux or FreeBSD in the near future, so a port that works in native mode for either of these would be welcome.