Loading individual programs from desktop

fancoir

Sorry if this is a dumb post but I can't find a solution. I've got a Games folder and I want to add individual games icons for all the Doom programs and load them directly. From my reading of the DE instructions I thought I could do this by installing Doomsday, creating a desktop icon and editing the target to something like: F:\DOS\Doomsday\bin\doomsday.exe -file Doom1.wad but I can't get this to work. How do I create a desktop icon to load a specific Doom wad without having to load through the front end?

DaniJ

The Readme (and other wiki articles) cover loading from the command line in more detail. In brief, one specifies the game you want to play using the -game argument. To tell the engine about a IWAD (such as doom1.wad), one specifies the directory in which it resides with the -iwad argument. (Note that it is only necessary to use -game if more than one IWAD is known to Doomsday).

However. Doomsday has a built-in graphical game selection menu. Which means one doesn't have to use the command line at all if you don't care to load any addons. Simply launch doomsday.exe yourself and you'll be greeted by this menu automatically (unless you've specified the game session to load, as above). You may find this more enjoyable than using shortcuts (although you will still have to make your IWADs known to Doomsday (e.g., with -iwad) if it can't find them automatically).

fancoir

Thank you! Thank you! I had been using -file, -load, and -iwad arguments but not -game. Everything's working now.

Yes I know that there is a Doomsday menu - I was getting it every time I failed to load a game at start up! - but I particularly wanted to load each game individually from its own icon.