Re: Extracting WAD files from Ultimate_Doom.exe under Linux

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 04/29/2007 09:16 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 04:16 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> > I just purchased the registered version of Doom (Ultimate_Doom.exe), and 
> > I want to start playing the game, but there is a problem--I'm a Linux user.
> >
> > I was able to play the shareware Doom episode using prboom and freedoom, 
> > so I know Doom can work on Linux. I just need to get the WAD files 
> > extracted from the executable ultimate_doom.exe. How can I do this?
>
> That might be a self-extracting zip file. If so, you should be able to
> extract it as any other zip file using unzip or similar tools. Otherwise
> you might need to use Wine to run the installer and extract the files.

Thank you very much Sven. I used wine, and I'm now happily playing 
Ultimate Doom on my Linux system.