DoomArena 2.0

DESCRIPTION

   DoomArena is a waiting room for DOOM games on Solaris 2.  People
   everywhere on the net can run doomarena and then start doom games
   with other people waiting to play.  It is a great tool to help you
   waste more time playing doom.  This is good, because playing doom
   is very therapeutic and will make the time you do spend working
   much more productive.

   DoomArena makes it really easy to start networked DOOM games with
   other people.  Here are some of the advantages DoomArena has over
   regular Sun DOOM:

       o  Easy startup of networked games
       o  Full Mouse support (not part of standard Sun DOOM)
       o  Easy and reliable configuration of game options
       o  Frag matrix with realtime updates
          (e.g., who has killed who, and how many times)
       o  .doomrc configuration panel
       o  Audio controls
       o  Map preview


INSTALLATION

   ** If you are upgrading a DoomArena 1.0 server, read the section
   ** below on upgrading before proceeding.

   DoomArena should be installed in a directory that is accessible
   from NFS.  Use the "share" command to figure out which disk
   partitions are exported.

   Installation steps:

   0) Optional:  Create a "doom" user on your machine, and install
      doomarena as the "doom" user.  Then you can run the server
      as the "doom" user, rather than yourself.

   1)  uncompress DoomArena-2.0.tar.Z
   2)  tar xf DoomArena-2.0.tar

   This will create a directory called "doomarena".

   3)  This step is necessary to enable network play:

       Edit the file doomarena/src/script/Makefile.
       Remove the following line:

   DAPARENT:sh = cd ../.. ; pwd

       Set DAPARENT to the auto-mountable path where doomarena
       is installed.  For example:

   DAPARENT=/net/hostname.domain/export/games/doomarena

       People on other machines will then be able to invoke
       /net/hostname.domain/export/games/doomarena/bin/doomarena,
       and will connect to your DoomArena server.  I couldn't figure
       out how to automatically determine the auto-mountable path
       for a given directory, therefore this step is needed.  If
       you know how to do this automatically, I would appreciate
       your feedback.

   4)  cd doomarena ; ./arenacache


   + To run the server +

   cd doomarena/server
   ./das >& das.out &

   Note: The server must be run on the same machine where the
         "arenacache" command was run.

   + To run the client +

   cd dooarena/bin
   ./doomarena

   Note: The client can be run from any machine that has NFS access
         to the doomarena installation.

   A copy of DoomArena will be installed in /tmp, or a local directory of
   your choice.  The reason for this is that people running doomarena
   over the net will get MUCH better performance with DoomArena installed
   on their local disk.

   + Running doomarena locally +

   If you are on the same machine as the doomarena installation, you
   can run doomarena with the -local flag.  This means that doomarena
   will not be installed in /tmp, but will be run directly from the
   original install directory.  This is a useful option if you
   simply want to play single player DOOM and don't care about
   networked play.


UPGRADING FROM DOOMARENA 1.0

   DoomArena 2.0 is _not_ backward compatible with version 1.0.  The
   safest way to avoid problems is to shutdown the old server and
   remove all client installs.  A version 1.0 client will cause
   endless error popups for other players.  Install the 2.0 server
   following the instructions above and re-install the clients as
   usual.


AUDIO PATCH

   If you are running Solaris 2.4 on an SS4 or SS5 machine, you will
   need to apply a patch in order to get audio to work.  This patch
   can be found in doomarena/AUDIOPATCH/102125.tar.Z.


REGISTERED WAD FILES

   DoomArena comes with doom1.wad.  This is the shareware version
   of the DOOM.  If you purchase a copy of DOOM or DOOM II, then
   you can play the registered version of the wad file with Sun DOOM.

   DoomArena comes with some shareware wads written by various
   people that are enabled only if the registered wad for DOOM
   or DOOM II is installed.

   To upgrade DoomArena with the registered wad files, you must
   buy DOOM or DOOM II and then patch the wad file to version 1.8
   or 1.9.  This requires a PC machine because the patch scripts
   will only run under DOS.

   1)  Install DOOM and/or DOOM II on a DOS machine

   2)  Copy and apply the appropriate patch file(s).  The patch files
       are available via anonymous ftp at the locations listed below.
       You need to apply a combination of patches that will get you
       from your current DOOM version up to version 1.8 or 1.9.
       1.8 is preferable, but 1.9 will do.  The DOOM demo causes the
       game to crash if you have any version other than 1.8, therefore
       with version 1.9 you have to start a game quickly before the demo
       starts running.  Your current DOOM version is the one listed
       at the top of the screen when you start DOOM on the PC.

       Patches for DOOM and DOOM II can be found at the following sites.
       (The "idstuff" directory contains the patches.)

       California  ftp.cdrom.com/pub/doom
       Texas       ftp.idsoftware.com/tonsmore/doom/
       Utah        ftp.pht.com/pub/games/doom/
       Wisconsin   ftp.uwp.edu/pub/games/id/home-brew/doom/
       New York    doomgate.cs.buffalo.edu/pub/idgames/
       S. Africa   ftp.sun.ac.za/pub/msdos/idgames/
       Taiwan      nctuccca.edu.tw/PC/games/DOOM/
       Austria     flinux.tu-graz.ac.at/pub/idsoftware/
       Germany     ftp.fu-berlin.de/pc/msdos/games/doom
       Netherlands ftp.sls.wau.nl/pub/msdos/doom/
       England     ftp.dungeon.com/pub/msdos/games/IDgames/
       Sweden      ftp.luth.se/pub/games/doom/
       France      anasgard.calvacom.fr/pub/pc/doom

   3)  Copy doom.wad and/or doom2.wad from the PC into the top level
       doomarena directory.  This is best done using pkzip because it
       will split the wad file across multiple floppies.  pkzip,
       pkunzip, and unzip are included as part of doomarena, and can
       be found in the zip directory.

       Invoke the pkzip command as follows:
           pkzip -& a:\doom.zip doom.wad

       To unzip the wad on the Sun machine, copy all the zip files off
       of the floppies, cat them all together, and use unzip.  Be sure
       to use the version of unzip from doomarena/zip/unzip!  "unzip" will
       spew a bunch of warnings, but these can be ignored.
           cat doom.zip1 doom.zip2 doom.zip3 ... > doom.zip
           unzip doom.zip

       This operation can be done with only one floppy as follows:
       PC
           pkzip -& a:\doom.zip doom.wad
           Insert disk #2 - Press a key when ready
           <Take the disk out and put it in the Sun machine>
       SUN
           volcheck
           cp /floppy/<diskname>/doom.zip ./doom.zip1
           rm /floppy/<diskname>/doom.zip
           eject
           <Put the floppy back in the PC and press a key>

       Repeat these steps to create doom.zip1, doom.zip2, etc., then
       invoke unzip as follows:
           cat doom.zip1 doom.zip2 doom.zip3 ... > doom.zip
           unzip doom.zip

       Move the doom.wad and/or doom2.wad file into the top level
       doomarena directory.  Be sure to rename DOOM.WAD to doom.wad,
       and DOOM2.WAD to doom2.wad.

   4)  Re-run the DoomArena clients:
           doomarena/server/dasadmin RerunClients
       NOTE:  Re-running the DoomArena clients will kill all currently
              running DOOM games.  This tends to upset people, so be
              careful.


ADMINISTRATION

   Read the file doc/administration for directions on adding new sounds
   and new wad files.


PERFORMANCE

   The version of sundgadoom included with DoomArena has been
   tuned for the sun4m architecture.  Therefore, you will not
   get very good performance on sun4c machines (SS1, SS2, etc.).


AUTHORS

   Douglas Stein
   Steve Jankowski


BUGS/COMMENTS

   Send email to [email protected]


MAILING LIST

   There is a mailing list for general discussion of DoomArena.
   The list will be of most interest to server maintainers, but
   players might find it interesting as well.

       echo subscribe | mail [email protected]

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