2008-08-03

Odamex in Linux Xubuntu

It's a few days back I installed Odamex on my Linux Xubuntu. Odamex is a doom port like Zdaemon, Zdoom, Prboom etc. Actually it's based on Zdoom. As you maybe know, legendary doom2.exe doesn't work in Windows 2000+ including Windows XP of course. And that's the reason why came Odamex. It's trying to emulate old doom2.exe, the ages when we played this game on our very old machines with low resolution.
Well, the instalation was pretty easy. I used this command which i pasted to console and it started installing.
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ subversion libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2-dev wx-common libwxgtk2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-0 && cd ~ && svn co http://odamex.net/svn/root/trunk odamex && cd odamex && sudo make install
This command can be used only on debian based linux distributions for those who wanna use it. So now i got Odamex and I can play whenever I want from Linux. Unfortunately, Odamex is now at version 0.4.1 and still has a lot of bugs because it's still a "baby". The time of development is just far shorter than ZDaemon's for example. One problem I've noticed on the beginning is that sound doesn't work. My friends told me that Odamex works fine for them (they usually use Ubuntu) so I have to wait till Oda Team fix it.

Here is a screenshot, pretty good hm? :p

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