Doom Question

[Abarbarian]

He he I downloaded Doom from here,

http://www.freesoftwarebase.com/games/free-doom-downloads

I managed to work out how to run it under XP on me pc .I'm running it in compatibility mode foe Win 98 and 256 colours and to run it I right click the setup exe and start it by clicking on " run with VDMS " This helped me to get the game to play fairly smoothly . It ran pretty badly under XP but I don't really know how to run these games and wht settings to choose .

Trouble is I do not get a status bar at the bottom of the screen like the picture shows (see the link) . How do I get this to show ??? Should the sound be music or should there be voices and music ??


There are tons of games at that site and I found it from a link given by another member here , just can't remember who it was .

 

[Ian]

It might be worth you using DOSBox to run the game, as you might find it able to run it a bit better. The status bar should be there, so I'm not sure why it isn't appearing - hopefully DOSBox will give better compatibility and sort it though.

 

[Abarbarian]

Ta I'll look into it .

 

[Andrew C]

Oh my, Doom. Mega cool!

 

[michael555]

Not bad dos box got alot of dos games to work with it.

Does anyone know where i can download final doom for free?

 

[floppybootstomp]

I have all 3 Doom games on a CD.

Cost me a fiver from a GAME shop.

They all work in XP with no tweaks although the control keys leave a little to be desired.

And I still have the original five floppy diks for Doom II

As much as it's praised (and yes, it was great at the time) to my mind the first Quake blew it out the water.