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Doom Server
The following is information about the altFIRE Dedicated Skulltag Doom Server.
Introduction
Doom is a landmark 1993 first-person shooter video game by id Software. It is widely recognized for having popularized the first person shooter genre, pioneering immersive 3D graphics, networked multiplayer gaming, and support for customized additions and modifications via packaged files in a data archive known as "WADs". Its graphic and interactive violence, as well as its Satanic imagery, also made it the subject of considerable controversy. In Doom, players assume the role of a space marine who must fight his way through a military base on Mars' moon, Phobos, and he must kill the demons from Hell.
The Doom franchise was continued with the follow-up Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994) and numerous expansion packs. Originally released for PC/DOS, these games have later been ported to many other platforms, including nine different game consoles, Rockbox firmware, and even PDAs and the Flash Player virtual machine. The series lost mainstream appeal as the technology of the Doom game engine was surpassed in the mid-1990s, although fans have continued making WADs, speedruns, and modifications to the source code released in 1997. An attempt to reboot the franchise with Doom 3 was successful but not long lived.
Skulltag is a port for the original Doom and Doom II and brings the franchise into the 21st century, maintaining the essence of what has made Doom great for so many years and, at the same time, adding new features to modernize it, creating a fresh, fun new experience. It adds a Wide array of gameplay modes and allows the use of GZDoom's OpenGL renderer as well as Quake-style key bindings, freelooking, and jumping.
Server Details
Our game server is a 64 bit AMD box with 4 GB of RAM running 64 bit Debian Linux. One of the many games we run on this powerful server is DOOM/DOOM II using the Skulltag port.
Getting and installing Skulltag
You will need a copy of Skulltag to connect to the server and play. If using Windows or Mac OS X, just download and install. Then copy your WAD files from DOOM/DOOM II into the game directory.
If you are using Linux, particularly Ubuntu, add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://debian.drdteam.org/ stable multiverse
and then
sudo apt-get install skulltag doomseeker-skulltag
After this, copy your DOOM and DOOM II WAD files to /usr/games/skulltag. You can now launch "doomseeker" and connect to the altFIRE Doom Server at doom.altfire.com. Alternatively, launch Skulltag with the Doom II WAD and drop the console. Type the following:
connect doom.altfire.com
Enjoy!
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Doom is a landmark 1993 first-person shooter video game by id Software. It is widely recognized for having popularized the first person shooter genre, pioneering immersive 3D graphics, networked multiplayer gaming, and support for customized additions and modifications via packaged files in a data archive known as "WADs". Its graphic and interactive violence, as well as its Satanic imagery, also made it the subject of considerable controversy. In Doom, players assume the role of a space marine who must fight his way through a military base on Mars' moon, Phobos, and he must kill the demons from Hell.
The Doom franchise was continued with the follow-up Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994) and numerous expansion packs. Originally released for PC/DOS, these games have later been ported to many other platforms, including nine different game consoles, Rockbox firmware, and even PDAs and the Flash Player virtual machine. The series lost mainstream appeal as the technology of the Doom game engine was surpassed in the mid-1990s, although fans have continued making WADs, speedruns, and modifications to the source code released in 1997. An attempt to reboot the franchise with Doom 3 was successful but not long lived.
Skulltag is a port for the original Doom and Doom II and brings the franchise into the 21st century, maintaining the essence of what has made Doom great for so many years and, at the same time, adding new features to modernize it, creating a fresh, fun new experience. It adds a Wide array of gameplay modes and allows the use of GZDoom's OpenGL renderer as well as Quake-style key bindings, freelooking, and jumping.
Server Details
Our game server is a 64 bit AMD box with 4 GB of RAM running 64 bit Debian Linux. One of the many games we run on this powerful server is DOOM/DOOM II using the Skulltag port.
Getting and installing Skulltag
You will need a copy of Skulltag to connect to the server and play. If using Windows or Mac OS X, just download and install. Then copy your WAD files from DOOM/DOOM II into the game directory.
If you are using Linux, particularly Ubuntu, add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://debian.drdteam.org/ stable multiverse
and then
sudo apt-get install skulltag doomseeker-skulltag
After this, copy your DOOM and DOOM II WAD files to /usr/games/skulltag. You can now launch "doomseeker" and connect to the altFIRE Doom Server at doom.altfire.com. Alternatively, launch Skulltag with the Doom II WAD and drop the console. Type the following:
connect doom.altfire.com
Enjoy!
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