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Installing d2x on Windows
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Unzip the binary release (d2x-x.x.x_mingw.zip), placing the files in
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your descent2 directory (C:\GAMES\DESCENT2 by default)
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You will also need the SDL and SDL_image runtime libraries.
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Get SDL-1.2.x-win32.zip from here:
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http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php
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And get SDL_image-1.2.x-win32.zip from here:
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http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/
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Unzip these files and place the DLLs in your descent2 directory, or
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you can place them in your system directory if you want to use them
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with programs other than d2x.
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See below for data installation.
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Installing d2x on MacOS X
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I guess we need to figure out the binary distribution first, eh?
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Base Data Installation
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In addition to d2x, you need some data files to play.
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In Windows or DOS, they go in the same directory as the d2x binary
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(C:\GAMES\DESCENT2 by default).
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On unix, these files usually go into a shared data directory
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(/usr/local/share/games/d2x by default).
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They can also go in $HOME/.d2x, or in an arbitrary directory specified
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with the -hogdir option on the d2x command line.
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The base install depends on which version of the datafiles you have.
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d2x currently supports just about any version of Descent II, and can
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use almost any version of Descent I as an add-on.
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Place these files into your shared data dir:
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Full Version (PC or Mac):
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descent2.ham
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descent2.hog
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descent2.s11
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descent2.s22
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alien1.pig
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alien2.pig
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fire.pig
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groupa.pig
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ice.pig
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water.pig
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If you want movies, place the .mvl files in your shared data dir:
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intro-h.mvl and/or intro-l.mvl
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other-h.mvl and/or other-l.mvl
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robots-h.mvl and/or robots-l.mvl
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The mvl files from the Mac version will not work. They are in a
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different format!
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OEM Version (Destination: Quartzon):
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descent2.ham
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descent2.hog
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descent2.s11
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descent2.s22
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fire.pig
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groupa.pig
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ice.pig
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water.pig
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If you want movies, place the .mvl files in your shared data dir:
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intro-l.mvl
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other-l.mvl
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robots-h.mvl and/or robots-l.mvl
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PC Shareware:
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d2demo.ham
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d2demo.hog
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d2demo.pig
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Mac Shareware:
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d2demo.ham
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d2demo.hog
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d2demo.pig
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descent2.s11
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exit.ham
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d2.mn2
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Add-on Mission Installation
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d2x should be able to play any missions for Descent I or Descent II,
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including the original Descent I mission (Descent: First Strike)
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In order to play any add-on missions, you need to have a full set of
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textures. That is, your base installation above must be the "Full
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Version", the "OEM Version", or the "Mac Shareware" version.
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To install an additional mission, just place the .hog and the .msn or
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.mn2 file into your missions directory. The missions directory can be
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inside the system-wide data dir, or your $HOME/.d2x dir. d2x will
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look in both places.
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To install the original Descent I mission:
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Place descent.hog into your data dir.
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d2x tries to make Descent I levels look as close to the original as
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possible, using just Descent II textures. However, if d2x finds
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a .pig file from Descent I (except PC shareware and 1.0 versions)
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installed in the data dir, it is able to improve the originality
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by reading textures from there (except for animated textures).
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Vertigo Installation
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Vertigo consists of both netgame enhancements (codenamed HOARD) and an
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additional mission. To install HOARD, place hoard.ham in your data
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dir. To play the vertigo mission, place d2x.hog and d2x.mn2 in your
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mission dir.
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If you want the movies that go with the vertigo mission, place
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d2x-h.mvl and/or d2x-l.mvl in your data dir.
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Notes
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In unix, all filenames must be in _lower case_. It's important.
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It is not necessary to run the D2 setup program to extract the files
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you need, just use unarj to extract the files from descent2.sow on the
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cd.
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If you use the mac demo data files, and they are not auto-detected
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(colors come out wrong), use the -macdata switch.
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If your computer has performance problems playing the movies, you can
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tell it to play the low resolution versions by setting MovieHires=0 in
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your descent.cfg file.
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You can also override this setting by passing the -lowresmovies switch
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or by deleting all *-h.mvl files.
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