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- Some useful hints on using the v1.2 patch files.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Last Change: 18/3/94
-
-
- First off, please tell me if these instructions contain any
- innacuracies!
-
- Anyway...
-
- (before I begin, note this: running the patch file will DELETE your
- old-version saved games, so back them up if you want to keep them, just
- in case. Anyway...)
-
- To use the patch, place the patch files in your Doom directory and
- enter:
-
- patch
-
- However, read on before you try this. You might just save yourself
- a lot of trouble...
-
-
- Before you try...
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- If you are about to use the 1.2 patch, or if you have already tried but
- are encountering difficulties, then the following hints may help:-
-
- The patch wants a clean version of the v1.1 game to update with. Any
- modifications made to doom.exe or doom.wad will halt the patch. If you
- have problems, try re-installing the v1.1 game from scratch and running
- the patch again.
-
- If you've used the use1_94.bat file to switch to the 1.94 DOS extender,
- then enter:
-
- use1_95
-
- and try the patch again.
-
- (Thanks to Chris Pollard (Xmastree@Sound.Demon.Co.UK) for the
- following tip concerning FILE_ID.DIZ...)
-
- I have been told that the patch needs the original FILE_ID.DIZ. If
- you just copy the patch files from the unzipped file straight into
- your Doom directory, then the original FILE_ID.DIZ will be overwritten.
- Hence, try unzipping the patch zip file somewhere else, and then
- renaming the FILE_ID.DIZ from the patch zip file to FILE-ID.DIZ or
- something, and then copying them to the Doom directory. This way, the
- patch program will find the original FILE_ID.DIZ. Then, afterwards,
- rename the new DIZ file back to FILE_ID.DIZ.
-
-
- If you still get an error, try entering this instead:
-
- patch -ignoremissing
-
- This might work, but not always. As someone else who mailed me said:
-
- "...The patch computes a checksum of the original files before touching
- them and complains if the checksum doesn't match. Using the option
- -ignoremissing is OK if an original unimportant file is missing (e.g.,
- LICENSE.DOC). However, if the "bad checksum" complaint comes from one
- of the important files (DOOM.EXE, DOOM.WAD), using the above option
- will simply prevent the old file from being updated and the game will
- still not work.".
-
- It appears there are still some problems out there. If anyone has any
- other tips on how the patch can be made more likely to work properly,
- please email me so that I can update this help file.
-
- Note to Australian players: it has been mentioned that some players
- received an older version of Doom 1.1 that the patch does not work
- with. If, after trying everything, the patch still does not work, then
- contact your dealer/supplier. They should be able to help.
-
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- This help brought to you by:
-
- Ian Mapleson,
- Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering,
- Heriot Watt University,
- Riccarton Campus,
- Edinburgh,
- Scotland,
- United Kingdom.
-
- email address: mapleson@cee.hw.ac.uk
-
- Doom on! :)
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-