Patch WAD files are files supplied by the designers to supply additional information to the game engine. Ordinarily, no patch WAD is in use. You can make the game engine use one, however, by starting it with the .file command-line switch, as explained in Chapter 2, "Running DOOM." When this switch is specified, DOOM first launches and reads its particular IWAD file. It then reads the PWAD files specified after the .file command-line switch, using the information in this file to supplement (patch) the information found in the IWAD.
This scheme enables PWAD files to be kept reasonably small because they contain only the information that is to be changed. Further economies in the size of PWAD files are made by organizing information in a clever way so that even a small amount of patch information can make a big difference in what the game engine displays.
7 comments
3 BotherJoe 2016-05-03
Get over Tits, get over Tits.
3 ForwardUntoDawn91 2016-05-03
PWAD FILES
Patch WAD files are files supplied by the designers to supply additional information to the game engine. Ordinarily, no patch WAD is in use. You can make the game engine use one, however, by starting it with the .file command-line switch, as explained in Chapter 2, "Running DOOM." When this switch is specified, DOOM first launches and reads its particular IWAD file. It then reads the PWAD files specified after the .file command-line switch, using the information in this file to supplement (patch) the information found in the IWAD.
This scheme enables PWAD files to be kept reasonably small because they contain only the information that is to be changed. Further economies in the size of PWAD files are made by organizing information in a clever way so that even a small amount of patch information can make a big difference in what the game engine displays.
5 jim_thoms 2016-05-03
PFG 9000
2 clickclack8 2016-05-03
pleb
2 Mod_Impersonator 2016-05-03
I might have to dig up my old DOOM II cd and see if it will run on Windows 7.
1 Popblawo 2016-05-03
You get what you get and you don't pitch a fit
0 Hxcgrapes 2016-05-03
Tap out of what? Isn't that what this sub is dedicated to? We've ruined the legacies of almost every character on the show.