doom on em-500

[socav]

I've been wanting to put Doom on my em-500 for a while now. First, can I do it? And if so, what files do I need and where do I put them? I have a 64 mb card, so memory's not a problem.

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

Wow. It's been a while since I had Doom on my PPC (two years ago when I owned an EM500 as well).

There might be multiple versions out there. The one that I know of was ported by Jimmy Software (http://www.jimmysoftware.com). I can't give you a more precise link b/c they appear to be down at the moment, but check their "products" or "download" section. They should have full directions on what to do. I do recall that you still need the original WAD files from your regular PC version of Doom, otherwise you'll be stuck playing the shareware version (the game is provided for free after all).

As for memory not being an issue, let me tell you that with the EM500, memory is almost always an issue, even with an external card. If I remember correctly, while you can install the game on your SD/MMC card, you'll need somewhere around 8-12MB of PROGRAM memory available to actually launch the game (I assume you understand what the difference between program and storage memory... it has nothing to do with external storage). You'll probably need to soft-reset your unit and then go into your memory applet to manually adjust available program memory to this amount and then immediately run the program before the unit readjusts it back.

Hope this helps.

[socav]

yes, it does. I have another game that uses 8 mb program memory, and I can run it, so hopefully doom won't be too much of a problem to run. Thanks for the help.

[CTSLICK]

Did it work? I found I always had to adjust the memory manually on my EM-500 to get Doom to run. As long as I adjusted to provide as much program memory as possible it would work fine.

[socav]

lol I'm reviving this thread from months ago, but...yeah, it does work. But I can't get any user-created levels to work on it. Oh well. I haven't played it for a long time now anyway.