Doom II: Hell on Earth
Released: August 1994
Published by: GT Interactive
Developed by: id Software
Author(s): Michael Abrash, John Carmack, John Romero, Dave Taylor, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud, Shawn C. Green, Robert Prince, Paul Radek
System Requirements
| System Requirements | 80386 CPU. 4 MB RAM required. Graphics support for VGA only (320x200). Audio support for PC Speaker, Ad Lib, Pro Audio Spectrum, Gravis UltraSound/ACE, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16/Pro, Roland Sound Canvas and General MIDI. |
|---|---|
| Original Media | Five 3.5" 1.44 MB (DS/HD) floppy disks or one CD-ROM. |
| Installed Size (MB) | 15.05 MB |
Introduction
After the huge success of Doom, id Software launched Doom II a year later. The game was built on the same "id Tech 1" game engine as Doom, but with more weapons and larger levels it was a more ambitious title. In some ways failed to match the original - it felt less cohesive as a story and suffered from poor level design through the middle of the game, but with 32 map levels and the new 'Super Shotgun' weapon, it was still a broad game with lots of playability.
As with Doom, 2 players could play simultaneously via a modem connection and up to 4 could play via a network connection. Both co-op mode and deathmatch modes were available. Also the same as the original, there were 9 scale settings to set the size of the game window if you were running on slower hardware.
Game Audio/Video
| Level 1 Sound Blaster 16  OGG, FLACES1868 OGG, FLAC OPL3SAx OGG, FLAC
Roland SC-55 OGG, FLAC |
Sound Blaster 16 is recorded from a CT2770. For a complete review and comparison of some of these cards, visit my Sound Blaster 16 (CT2770) review page.
OPL3SAx is recorded from a Yamaha Audician 32 Plus. This card was suffering from periodic audio outages.
From where can it be run?
The game must be installed to your hard disk.
Copy Protection
Doom II has no copy protection.
How to Setup
To install the game, Insert disk #1 and run INSTALL.BAT. If you have all the files from the floppy disks in a single directory on your hard disk, the installer will automatically detect this and not prompt you to insert the other disks:
Immediately after installation is complete, the SETUP utility is run and takes you through controller, music and sound effects setup options:
1) Control type options:
2) Select Music Sound card and port address:
3) Select Sound Effects device, port address, IRQ, and DMA channel:
4) Select Number of Sound FX to mix:
5) Back to the main menu:
6) From left: Keyboard/Mouse/Joystick configuration:
7) If you choose to run a network/modem/serial game, you will get this set of options depending on the type of connection you want to use:
From left: IPX-compatible network (Novell), modem, and serial link:
Problems
Symptom:
Cause:
Resolution:
To Quit the Game
Hit ESC to bring up the game menu. Then use the cursor keys to move the highlight down to 'Quit Game' and hit Enter.
Supporting Documents
Here are the original documents that came with the game:
Save Games
You can save your progress at any time during the game, and reload at any time. Save games are stored in 'slots'. The save game files contain player location, health, weapon, ammo and armor status, live/dead status of all monsters on the map level, and more.
Versions of the game known to exist
| Version | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 1.666 | Aug 1994 | First release, in English. |
| 1.666g | Aug 1994 | German version. Different WAD file (missing MAP31 and MAP32 secret levels), and a different main executable file. |
| 1.7a | ? | Some level fixes. The original floppy disk files are named DOOM2B.<disk#> instead of DOOM2LZH.<disk#>, and a slightly different INSTALL.BAT exists to cater for this. Upon exiting to DOS the message has an amended phone number. |
| 1.8 | ? | ? |
| 1.8 French | ? | Fully translated version of the English v1.8 |
| 1.9 | Some new secret areas added, and minor updates to existing levels |
Original Floppy Disk Contents
The floppy disks have no specific volume label.
Installed Directory Contents
Once installed, the following directory structure exists in the game directory.
Original full game only, version 1.666 (no expansion packs or added levels).
Directory of C:\GAMES\DOOM2 DEFAULT CFG 791 29-07-2022 11:17 |
