A word about using Doom pwads with Doom2

In this directory you will find some of the latest shareware 
tools and Player WAD's. There are some excellent WAD's designed 
for Doom2, these you can play just like any other PWAD. That is 
Doom2 -file wadname.wad; that's easy. If you want to play a Doom1 
WAD you should know that there are two things that you will have 
to do:

     1. Run mapconv.exe: mapconv anywad.wad [ExMy] [MAPxy]
        
        a) mapconv will change the ExMy reference in your Doom1             
           PWAD to the MAPxy reference that Doom2 expects. This             
           has worked flawlessly for me. 
        b) Send the author of mapconv.exe a bag of money because 
           he is cool and should be encouraged and you have to.

     2. Use the Doom1-2.wad: Doom2 -file doom1-2.wad anywad.wad

        a) This will take care of doom/doom2 diferences in       
           textures and other nasty business.
        b) Send the author of doom1-2 a bag of money because he  
           is cool and should be encouraged and you have to.

Now you are playing doom. I also highly recommend playing the 
Doom_1b WAD, it is a port of the entire classic doom1 wad with 
the added bonus of having the double-barrel shotgun!


Example:        Convert Anywad.wad from Doom1 to Doom2
                Anywad.wad is for use in Episode1 Mission3
                You wish to use it as level 3 in Doom2

Do This:        BACKUP YOUR WAD FILE
                Mapconv anywad.wad E1M3 Map03 
                (File is now converted)
                Doom2 -file Doom1-2.wad anywad.wad
                (Now you're playing Doom2)

Notes:

1)     Send lots of money to the developers.
2)     Make sure your "Map" entry is 2 digits... such as "03"
3)     This won't convert backwards... so save your original wad 
       first.


Dave Walker
CyTech CodeHouse