In article ,
Jasen Betts wrote:
On 2013-04-05, Darren Salt wrote:
I demand that Mike Tomlinson may or may not have written...

En el artÃ*culo , John
Rumm escribió:
Looks rather devoid of messages at the moment!

Get posting then. A decent x86 emulator has just come out for it, and
it'll play Doom! What other reason do you need to get a Pi?

Why x86 emulation when you can (or should be able to) run a native build?

Because then it would be "prboom" and not "doom" ?

Is the game the executable program that interprets the data file, or is
the game the data file?

doom.exe interprets doom.wad and lets you play Doom the game.

prboom interprets doom.wad and lets you play Doom the game.

Same when playing Zork - is the game the z-code intrepreter or the data
files? I doubt anyone would argue that in the Zork case the game is the
data file and the z-code intrepreter has been ported to many platforms -
same for Doom - since the doom engine has been ported to many platforms,
prboom is just one implementation of the doom engine that happens to
run under Linux.

So I have had the ability to play Doom (and Doom II - I have the original
CDs) under Linux for many years and the Pi is just one more PC I can
run Doom under.

If you think it can't run Doom just because you're not running doom.exe
then I think you're just being a shade too pedantic - the game is the
WAD file not the interpreter.

The photo I posted earlier was taken almost a year ago. Doom runs fine
on the Pi - it's been running for a year.

Gordon