Dumb

Dumb - Free engine for running doom worlds

'Dumb' is a 3D game engine for GNU/Linux. 'Dumb' uses a gamefile format compatible with ID Software's Doom engine; it can in fact play Doom and related games.

There are performance differences, however. For example, 'Dumb' adds several new lumps to game wads to control texture animation and object behavior, but they don't have to be compiled into the game. Therefore, a single binary of 'dumb' can play a variety of different games. Also, you can pan the camera up and down, display textures at various resolutions, tile textures vertically at any power-of-two height between 4 and 1024, and tile horizontally at any width.

You can play Doom, Doom II, and Heretic, although not all features are implemented. You can also play any of the gamefile patches (PWADs) available for these games, although you need the main gamefile (IWAD) for each game. You can also create your own levels using the level editor XWad.
Obtaining

Web page http://samba.anu.edu.au/dumb/
Source tarball ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/unix/programming/games/dumb/dumb-0.13.12.tar.gz
Version 0.13.12 (stable) released on 1999-10-27

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User README included

Support contacts

Bug List

<bug-dumb@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	None
Developers	Josh Parsons <josh@coombs.anu.edu.au> Kalle Niemitalo

Related information

Interfaces	X Window System
Source languages	C

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

Categories

The copyright licensing notice below applies to this text. The software described in this text has its own copyright notice and license, which can usually be found in the distribution itself.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of this license is included in the file COPYING.DOC.

Please report any problems in this page to bug-directory@gnu.org, or find out how you can help fix them.

The FSF provides this directory as a service to the free software community. Please consider donating to the FSF to help support this project.