DOOM 1, DOOM 2, DOOM 3 game wad files for
download / Playing Doom on Debian Linux via FreeDoom open source
doom engine
Every now and then as an ex-gamer I do remember the good glorious
times of the
DooM oldschool 3d shooter game.
As a Linux user I do have the option to play
Doom 1 and
Doom 2 straight using the GPLed version of the game called
FreeDoom
FreeDoom comes with a custom wad file called
freedoom.wad
which is a considerably good remake of the doom game, but still I
don't find so funny and bringing memories as the original
game.
Thus in order to experience the original doom game play, levels and
sound on my Linux, I need to use the
original doom wad
files
The DooM original wad files are already an abandonware and nowdays
it's a bit hard to be found. Still the wad files for the games are
available for download on some major torrent trackers like
piratebay but it takes time to find them therefore I decided to
publicly share the Doom 1, Doom 2 and Doom 3 wad files to be easier
for me to later put and play them on Linux and BSD operating
systems, on the other hand I do think this files might be useful
for many other oldschool
DooM fans out there.
Here are the files for download:
1.
Download doom 1, doom 2 and doom 3 wad files + extra of plutonia
wad and tnt wad rar archive
2.
Download
Doom1.wad file
3.
Download
Doom2.wad file
4.
Download
Doom3.wad file
5.
Download
Doom Plutonia.wad
6.
Download Doom
Tnt.wad
On my Debian Linux with the
freedoom package in order to
play the Doom1 or Doom2 wad files it's necessary to download and
place the doom1.wad or doom2.wad files into the directory
/usr/share/games/doom
It's important that the WAD files names does not contain capital
letters (e.g. the files need to be placed with file names doom1.wad
and doom2.wad)
The FreeDoom port package in Debian Lenny and Squeeze is available
to be installed easily through apt like so:
debian:~# apt-get install freedoom
Enjoy the nice oldschool game ;)