Descent On Linux and BSD

Removed D1x 1.34 due to problems with compiling on Linux.
1999-Feb-11 Added D1x 1.32
1999-Mar-18 Added D1x 1.34
1999-Mar-19 Added D1x 1.35
1999-May-5 Added D1x 1.36
1999-May-15 Added Editor Patch
1999-June-9 Added D1x 1.37
1999-Sep-1 Remove D1x 1.3? due to space considerations
1999-Sep-11 Added D1x 1.40

Links

D1x HomePage

Ldescent Homepage

Arne de Bruijn's Ldescent Patches

SDL Homepage (used by D1x)

LDescent

Newest version is ldescent-0.0.21 available at Arne's page or from here

Features

• Runs in both FreeBSD and Linux
• Editor works
• Works with i386/Alpha
• Can use both SVGALib, X, or GGI (GGI is not yet complete)
• Uses Autoconf for configuration

Disadvantage

Requires Registerd Descent 1.4+ data files to run

LDescent Documentation

D1x

Newest version is d1x v1.40 available from the D1x homepage and here.

Features

• Runs under Dos and i386 Linux (X Windows)
• Can use both shareware data files and registered data files
• Development is more active on D1x than Ldescent
• New Networking Features such as short packets, anti-spawning measures and required packets.
• New hud commands and a hud log
• D2 style network join menu
• UDP/IP support on Linux
• Sound works properly under linux
• On 386 compatable somewhat faster

Disadvantages

• Editor's keyboard does not work and saves have problems
• Only runs in X Windows and only on i386 compatibles

D1x Documentation

D1 Tools

I am trying to make as complete of a set of Descent 1 tools that run on Linux/BSD as possible. Download here. Now moved to github: d1tools. Here is what I have so far:

• Txt2txb and Txb2txt. These programs can create and extract text from .txb files
• hogcreate and hogextract. These are some quick and dirty programs I wrote to create and extract the files out of hog files.

Download

• Files needed by the editor (8 KB)
• Descent 1.2 shareware files (2206 KB)
• LDescent 0.0.21 (976 KB)
• D1 tools (2 KB)
• D1x version 1.40 (~1200 TB)
• Patch to get D1x to work with SHAREWARE

Mailing Lists

LDescent and D1x each have a mailing list.

This list is mainly about LDescent but also will sometimes discusses d1x on Linux. To subscribe to the LDescent mailing list, send mail to lists@muppetlabs.com with "subscribe ldescent <your email address>" in the body of the message.

This mailing list mainly discusses the D1x project. To join, send a mail without any subject and the body as: "subscribe descent-source (your email address)" to majordomo@warpcore.org!

Send comments, suggestions etc. to Josh Cogliati jjc@iname.com