Provided by: woof-doom_10.5.1+dfsg-1_amd64 
NAME
woof - Woof! is a continuation of Lee Killough's Doom source port MBF targeted at modern
systems
SYNOPSIS
woof [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
MBF stands for "Marine's Best Friend" and is widely regarded the successor of the Boom
source port by TeamTNT. It serves as the code base for popular Doom source ports such as
PrBoom+/DSDA-Doom or The Eternity Engine. As the original engine was limited to run only
under MS-DOS, it has been ported to Windows by Team Eternity under the name WinMBF in
2004. Woof! is developed based on the WinMBF code with the aim to make MBF more widely
available and convenient to use on modern systems.
GENERAL OPTIONS
-config <file>
Load main configuration from the specified file, instead of the default.
-devparm
Developer mode.
-file <files>
Load the specified PWAD files.
-help Print command line help.
-iwad <file>
Specify an IWAD file to use.
-nomusic
Disable music.
-nosfx Disable sound effects.
-nosound
Disable all sound output.
-save <directory>
Specify a path from which to load and save games. If the directory does not exist
then it will automatically be created.
-shotdir <directory>
Specify a path to save screenshots. If the directory does not exist then it will
automatically be created.
-version
Print the program version and exit.
GAME START OPTIONS
-beta Press beta emulation mode (complevel mbf only).
-coop_spawns
Start single player game with items spawns as in cooperative netgame.
-dog Enables a single helper dog.
-dogs <n>
Overrides the current number of helper dogs, setting it to n.
-episode <n>
Start playing on episode n (1-99)
-fast Monsters move faster.
-loadgame <s>
Load the game in slot s.
-nomonsters
Disable monsters.
-pistolstart
Enables automatic pistol starts on each level.
-respawn
Monsters respawn after being killed.
-skill <skill>
Set the game skill, 1-5 (1: easiest, 5: hardest). A skill of 0 disables all
monsters only in -complevel vanilla.
-speed <n>
Increase or decrease game speed, percentage of normal.
-turbo <x>
Turbo mode. The player's speed is multiplied by x%. If unspecified, x defaults to
200. Values are rounded up to 10 and down to 400.
-warp <x> <y>|<xy>
Start a game immediately, warping to ExMy (Doom 1) or MAPxy (Doom 2).
DISPLAY OPTIONS
-1 Don't scale up the screen. Implies -window.
-2 Double up the screen to 2x its normal size. Implies -window.
-3 Triple up the screen to 3x its normal size. Implies -window.
-fullscreen
Run in fullscreen mode.
-hires Enables 640x400 resolution for internal video buffer.
-noblit
Disable blitting the screen.
-nodraw
Disable rendering the screen entirely.
-nograbmouse
Don't grab the mouse when running in windowed mode.
-nohires
Enables original 320x200 resolution for internal video buffer.
-window
Run in a window.
NETWORKING OPTIONS
-altdeath
Start a deathmatch 2.0 game. Weapons do not stay in place and all items respawn
after 30 seconds.
-autojoin
Automatically search the local LAN for a multiplayer server and join it.
-avg Austin Virtual Gaming: end levels after 20 minutes.
-connect <address>
Connect to a multiplayer server running on the given address.
-deathmatch
Start a deathmatch game.
-dm3 Start a deathmatch 3.0 game. Weapons stay in place and all items respawn after 30
seconds.
-dup <n>
Reduce the resolution of the game by a factor of n, reducing the amount of network
bandwidth needed.
-extratics <n>
Send n extra tics in every packet as insurance against dropped packets.
-frags <n>
The -frags option allows you to deathmatch until one player achieves <n> frags, at
which time the level ends and scores are displayed. If <n> is not specified the
match is to 10 frags.
-left Run as the left screen in three screen mode.
-nodes <n>
Autostart the netgame when n nodes (clients) have joined the server.
-oldsync
Use original network client sync code rather than the improved sync code.
-port <n>
Use the specified UDP port for communications, instead of the default (2342).
-privateserver
When running a server, don't register with the global master server. Implies
-server.
-right Run as the right screen in three screen mode.
-server
Start a multiplayer server, listening for connections.
-servername <name>
When starting a network server, specify a name for the server.
-solo-net
Start the game playing as though in a netgame with a single player. This can also
be used to play back single player netgame demos.
-timer <n>
For multiplayer games: exit each level after n minutes.
DEHACKED AND WAD MERGING
-bex <files>
Alias for -deh.
-bexout <filename>
Alias for -dehout.
-blockmap
Forces a (re-)building of the BLOCKMAP lumps for loaded maps.
-deh <files>
Load the given dehacked/bex patch(es).
-dehout <filename>
Enables verbose dehacked parser logging.
-dumplumps
Allow writing predefined lumps out as a WAD.
-noautoload
Disable auto-loading of .wad and .deh files.
-nocheats
Ignore cheats in dehacked files.
-nodehlump
Avoid loading DEHACKED lumps embedded into WAD files.
-nomapinfo
Disable UMAPINFO loading.
-nooptions
Avoid loading OPTIONS lumps embedded into WAD files.
DEMO OPTIONS
-fastdemo <demo>
Plays the given demo as fast as possible.
-levelstat
Write level statistics upon exit to levelstat.txt
-longtics
Record a high resolution "Doom 1.91" demo.
-maxdemo <size>
Sets the initial size of the demo recording buffer (KiB). This is no longer a hard
limit, and the buffer will expand if the given limit is exceeded.
-playdemo <demo>
Play back the demo named demo.lmp.
-record <demo>
Record a demo named demo.lmp.
-recordfrom <s> <demo>
Record a demo, loading from the given save slot. Equivalent to -loadgame <s>
-record <demo>.
-recordfromto <demo1> <demo2>
Allows continuing <demo1> after it ends or when the user presses the join demo key,
the result getting saved as <demo2>. Equivalent to -playdemo <demo1> -record
<demo2>.
-shorttics
Play with low turning resolution to emulate demo recording.
-skipsec <min:sec>
Skip min:sec time during viewing of the demo. "-warp <x> -skipsec <min:sec>" will
skip min:sec time on level x.
-strict
Sets compatibility and cosmetic settings according to DSDA rules.
-timedemo <demo>
Play back the demo named demo.lmp, determining the framerate of the screen.
COMPATIBILITY
-complevel <version>
Emulate a specific version of Doom/Boom/MBF. Valid values are "vanilla", "boom",
"mbf", "mbf21".
-gameversion <version>
Emulate a specific version of Doom. Valid values are "1.9", "ultimate", "final",
"chex". Implies -complevel vanilla.
-setmem <version>
Specify DOS version to emulate for NULL pointer dereference emulation. Supported
versions are: dos622, dos71, dosbox. The default is to emulate DOS 7.1 (Windows
98).
-spechit <n>
Use the specified magic value when emulating spechit overruns.
-statdump <filename>
Dump statistics information to the specified file on the levels that were played.
The output from this option matches the output from statdump.exe (see ctrlapi.zip
in the /idgames archive).
OBSCURE AND LESS-USED OPTIONS
-cdrom [windows only] Save configuration data and savegames in c:\doomdata, allowing play
from CD.
-nogui Don't pop up a GUI dialog box to show the error message.
IWAD SEARCH PATHS
To play, an IWAD file is needed. This is a large file containing all of the levels,
graphics, sound effects, music and other material that make up the game. IWAD files are
named according to the game; the standard names are:
doom.wad, doom1.wad, doom2.wad, tnt.wad, plutonia.wad
Doom, Doom II, Final Doom
hacx.wad, chex.wad
Hacx and Chex Quest - more obscure games based on the Doom engine.
freedm.wad, freedoom1.wad, freedoom2.wad
The Freedoom open content IWAD files.
The following directory paths are searched in order to find an IWAD:
Current working directory
Any IWAD files found in the current working directory will be used in preference to
IWADs found in any other directories.
DOOMWADDIR
This environment variable can be set to contain a path to a single directory in
which to look for IWAD files. This environment variable is supported by most Doom
source ports.
DOOMWADPATH
This environment variable, if set, can contain a colon-separated list of
directories in which to look for IWAD files, or alternatively full paths to
specific IWAD files.
$HOME/.local/share/games/doom
Writeable directory in the user's home directory. The path can be overridden using
the XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable (see the XDG Base Directory Specification).
/usr/local/share/doom, /usr/local/share/games/doom, /usr/share/doom,
/usr/share/games/doom System-wide locations that can be accessed by all users. The
path /usr/share/games/doom is a standard path that is supported by most Doom source
ports. These paths can be overridden using the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable
(see the XDG Base Directory Specification).
The above can be overridden on a one-time basis by using the -iwad command line parameter
to provide the path to an IWAD file to use. This parameter can also be used to specify the
name of a particular IWAD to use from one of the above paths. For example, '-iwad
doom.wad' will search the above paths for the file doom.wad to use.
FILES
$HOME/.local/share/woof.cfg
The main configuration file for Woof. See default.cfg(5).
$HOME/.local/share/woof/woofsav*.dsg
Savegame files.
$HOME/.local/share/woof/tranmap.dat
Cached translucency table.
/usr/share/woof/autoload, $HOME/.local/share/woof/autoload/
WAD files and DEH patches in the subdirectories of these paths are added
automatically when a WAD file of the corresponding name is loaded.
SEE ALSO
woof-setup(6),
AUTHOR
Woof! is written and maintained by Fabian Greffrath. It is based on the MBF and WinMBF
source codes, released by Lee Killough and Team Eternity, respectively, and on the
LinuxDoom source code, released by Id Software.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © id Software Inc; Copyright © 1999 id Software, Chi Hoang, Lee Killough, Jim
Flynn, Rand Phares, Ty Halderman; Copyright © 2004 James Haley; Copyright © 2005-2016
Simon Howard; Copyright © 2020-2022 Fabian Greffrath; Copyright © 2020-2022 Roman Fomin.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to
the extent permitted by law.
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