Dan, Where's PocketDoom ???

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[Jadam]

[gamefreaks]

Ok, is anyone working on any skins? The only stipulations is that it is is a 256-color bmp. (I can convert so post a high-quality jpeg), must be 240x320 and have a 240x160 space for the screen.

The following can be changed:

-Screen position (is there a titlebar etc)
-HW buttons. Just select one and select an action...
-Non-Gapi HW buttons. if your device has more than 3 buttons. You can use them too. (You need the key code though!)
-Track-pad position, size etc (can be non-centered etc).
-Track-pad sensitivity.

I can write the scripts, I will documant them and they will be with the next release. (Saturaday, all things being equal!)

I will also need people to edit scripts for their device. I only have a e310, so the configs will be different for different for, say Ipaq's or Casio's etc.

I will be adding device specific code so that you can specify that some script commands only get registerd on certian devices. I don't know if I will have that ready for saturday though.

Music is still a problem. I can't find a developer-libary with midi support. (MIDI players are no use, I either need the source or a dll with libarys and headers)
The nearest I can find is ModPlayerCE which plays mod XM files. Can they be converted from midi? Most Windows source ports use code to convert from mus to midi, so thats easy enough. I will source so that the conversion can done on-the-fly (well...converted on startup/start-level and cached!)

Oh...and any suggestions...

[Thoralf]

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[sirdaved]

I'm ba-a-a-ack!

Isn't it about a year ago we were discussing LEGACY DOOM here? Do you know that the sonof****ch still has the web-page up? Apparently, a number of people know who this was, so if you're a frequent member of this forum, why don't you....... oh! forget it.

Anyway, THANKS GAMEFREAKS- you're a scholar and a gentleman! gfDoom (I think the name MiniDoom works- I think someone suggested it above) is the most playable of all the PPC doom ports because of one, big, ingenious thing: whether you planned it or not, the attack button automatically switches to strafe (ie. move left-move right) when you're shooting.

In order to play Doom at the higher difficulty levels, it is mandatory to have a workable strafe. It doesn't work to have just a separate strafe button because it's to hard to switch to strafe, shoot, then switch back. But having an automatic strafe while shooting does work.

I compared gfDoom to Jimmydoom on my Casio E125 and Audiovox Maestro. Here are some suggestions and comments:

1) As someone found above, you definitely have to create a new Doom directory from scratch. If you just transfer over an old Doom directory (eg. used with Jimmydoom) and add gfDoom to it, you'll get an 'Iwad not found' message.

2) When you add configurable buttons, please keep an option to shoot and strafe at the same time as in you're first version, but it would be good to also have a separate strafe-select button so you can slide sideways sometimes when you're not shooting.

3) Would appreciate an easier way to select your Iwad and Pwad -Jimmydoom handles this pretty well.

4) The screen is too small in its default mode-maybe you could change the size of the info above and below the main screen to allow the same size screen as in + mode, but with the ammo, health info present.

Again thanks- I've been waiting for someone to tackle a Doom port.

P.S. If you were to eventually get the music working, I'd pronounce you a virtual man among men!

[sirdaved]

Okay, I'm stumped.

The above comments were based on just running Doom2 which appears to be the default. But, if you have several Iwads in the same directory, how do you select them. Likewise, how do you select Pwads.

I read the Readme but it's of no help. I know how to create a shortcut with the -file option but nothing I tried worked. I've got doomu.wad, doom2.wad, plutonia.wad and tnt.wad- how would I select to play, say, doomu.wad instead of doom2.wad. I also have a pwad called hiclimb.wad- how would I select it?

Incidently, gfDoom and all my iwads and pwads are in a Storage Card\Doom directory.

Thanks for any info, anybody.

[James S]

Use DEXplor (http://www.dex-plor.com) to make shortcuts with commands in them. It's got a free trial version with full features.

[sirdaved]

Thanks Moosemaster, but I also need to know exactly what commands to use. I think I've got the tools for making the shortcuts, but none of them work. Would appreciate the full command line used to select a Pwad and an Iwad.

[James S]

If the custom wad file you want to use is in the same directory as the EXE then just use this, renaming the WAD file, of course:
gfDoom -file MyWad.wad

If it's in a folder other than the same folder as gfDoom.exe then you have to use the full path to the wad file, and putting quotes around the path would probably help if it doesn't work without quotes (i.e. if there are spaces in the name: gfDoom -file "\Storage Card\Doom\MyWad.wad")

Hope that works, if not then gamefreak will have to help you out.

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[Thoralf]

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