Eternal I, II, and III Full Installation The file ETERNAL.ZIP contains the full Eternal I-III package. The directory you unzip ETERNAL.ZIP in becomes your Eternal directory; we recommend \ETERNAL. If you already have Eternal I or II installed we recommend deleting it before starting installation. Note: In order to minimize disk space during installation, leave ETERNAL.ZIP in the directory you start installation from. See the BACKUP section below for details. Requirements: 50MB free disk space for installation MINIMUM: 386 with 8M of RAM or better, but we recommend a much faster machine with more RAM. A working DOOM II installation or Final DOOM installation Environment: We recommend a DOS window under Windows, and if you don't have one of those, a pure DOS session. ======================================================================== Full Installation in Brief: ======================================================================== If you only own Final DOOM, or have 8M of memory or less and run EMM386, or just have questions, please refer to the detailed instructions below for installation in special circumstances. 1) Make sure you have 50 (!!) megabytes of free hard-disk space. "Only" 31M or so are required after installation, and that includes the 29M Eternal II installation too. 2) Copy ETERNAL.ZIP (full kit) to a new directory (we recommend \ETERNAL), and unzip it there. 3) Enter "ETERNAL" at the DOS prompt. This runs the shell, which carries out installation and exits. If you have a slow system or slow disk, installation can take a considerable period, perhaps as much as half an hour. It runs in just a minute or so on a P90 system. This file provides detailed instructions for each of the possible situations a downloader may encounter below. ======================================================================== Running Eternal: ======================================================================== DOOM II owners: Enter "ETERNAL" at the DOS prompt one more time. You are now in the Eternal DOOM shell. Press Enter to begin Eternal, or TAB to the levels window and select the level you wish to start at before hitting Enter. Final DOOM only owners: Install according to the Final DOOM directions later in this file. If you have installed TNT or PLUTONIA for DOS, and used that IWAD for installation, you can use ETERNAL to run the shell. If you have only installed Final DOOM for Windows '95 or specified that directory in installation the shell cannot be used, instead: Run DOOM95 and specify the ETERNAL.WAD file in the ETERNAL directory as the play wad. Use TNT.WAD or PLUTONIA.WAD for the game wad (the one that was specified during installation). The Eternal shell cannot be used with DOOM95.EXE. You need a copy of DOOM2.EXE, or DOOM.EXE to put in the Final DOOM directory. Command line devotees: If you prefer the command line, simply issue DOOM2 -file X:\Eternal\ETERNAL.WAD where X:\Eternal\ represents your Eternal drive and directory. ======================================================================== Revision Installation ======================================================================== After downloading an Eternal revision (none available yet!), unzip it in the Eternal directory, noting the name of the wad inside. Then run the shell and press Alt-I. Choose Wad from the menu, enter the wadname in the prompt and press Enter. If you have extremely little DOS memory, or are low on disk space, this may fail. Enter the following from a clean booted system prompt in the Eternal directory in that case, but you MUST insure you have sufficient disk space first. The ETERNAL.WAD and ETERNXXX.WAD may require nearly 50MB together (possibly 60MB or more with Final DOOM configurations). The MER starts by truncating ETERNAL to 0 bytes so only the additional space required by REVISION.WAD (usually insignificant) is necessary. Any file can be on any drive if that helps, just specify the full path to it. COPY ETERNAL.WAD ETERNXXX.WAD PATCHER MER ETERNXXX REVISION ETERNAL DEL ETERNXXX.WAD ======================================================================== Backup ======================================================================== The Eternal software attempts to maintain retryability, and the ability to reinstall later if necessary. This may be more security than necessary and you might rather have disk space in its place. Just delete the files in the BACKUP subdirectory AFTER installation in that case. For full package (ETERNAL.ZIP) installation: If ETERNAL.ZIP is found in the installation directory it is copied to BACKUP in case you need to retry installation or repeat it later for any reason. ======================================================================== Normal Installation for DOOM II owners ======================================================================== 1) Copy ETERNAL.ZIP to a new directory (We suggest \ETERNAL) and unzip it there. 2) Run ETERNAL and the installation is performed. 3) Run ETERNAL and the Eternal shell starts, press Enter to start Eternal ======================================================================== Normal Installation for Final DOOM only owners ======================================================================== 1) If you own both Final DOOM and DOOM II we suggest you install using DOOM II, as the resulting WAD will still play with Final DOOM's DOOM95, but will be smaller and more compatible with the solution demos provided. It is only when you do not own a copy of DOOM2.WAD that you must follow these instructions. 2) Make a new directory (we suggest \ETERNAL), copy ETERNAL.ZIP to it, and unzip it there. 3) Run ETERNAL and the installation is performed. When prompted for your DOOM II installation path, specify the full path to TNT.WAD or PLUTONIA.WAD. 4) If you have installed Final DOOM for DOS using the INSTALL.BAT in the TNT or PLUTONIA subdirectory of the CD, and specified one the wads in these installations for the DOOM2 path, you can use the Eternal shell by typing ETERNAL. If you have only installed Final DOOM for Windows 95 (with SETUP) you run DOOM95, and to play Eternal, choose the same IWAD you installed with in the Game edit box, and ETERNAL.WAD in the Eternal directory for the external wad to play. ======================================================================== Installation if you have 8M RAM or less using EMM386 ======================================================================== 1) Proceed according to the Normal Installation instructions until you run the Eternal Shell. 2) Press Alt-F for the File Menu, and select the Make Iwad option. Press Enter. You need 50MB free disk when this runs, to be safe. You can bypass this safety check AT YOUR OWN RISK, by using the following DOS command lines in the Eternal directory: PATCHER MER /N /I /1 +SFTP ETERNAL.WAD \DOOM2.WAD ETERNXXX.WAD DEL ETERNAL.WAD RENAME ETERNXXX.WAD DOOM2.WAD You must also edit ETERNAL.INI and change FILES=1 to FILES=2 under [CONFIGURATION] if you manually merge the files from DOS. Any of the wads can be on different drives if that will help with the space situation too. We strongly recommend you take advantage of that if you have more than one drive. Just specify the full path to each file, and move the resulting ETERNAL.WAD back to the Eternal installation when done, if necessary. 3) This option is not available if you have installed in the DOOM II directory, or anywhere containing a DOOM2.WAD already. It needs to create an IWAD called DOOM2.WAD to avoid loading both DOOM2 and ETERNAL when DOOM2 is run, in order to work. 4) If you don't wish to reinstall outside the DOOM II installation or can't build the IWAD configuration for lack of disk space, then you can still play Eternal by making a boot disk that does NOT load EMM386, but only the drivers you need for DOOM like mouse and sound drivers. The shell works with a fairly small amount of conventional memory so you needn't load anything high, and won't be able to without EMM386. ======================================================================== Recreation of missing or corrupted ETERNAL.INI or ETERNAL.BAT ======================================================================== If you lose your ETERNAL.INI or ETERNAL.BAT its not fatal, you don't even have to unzip the archive again. To replace ETERNAL.INI, or if the settings in it become damaged or you can't get them working, just DEL ETERNAL.INI if it still exists and the shell will recreate the file (with default settings everywhere), next time you run ETERNAL. If you lose ETERNAL.BAT or it becomes damaged enter the line ESHELL BAT and ESHELL will recreate ETERNAL.BAT. =========================================================================== Un-installation of Eternal III =========================================================================== Note: If your intention is to re-install later, first recover the ETERNAL.ZIP file from the BACKUP subdirectory of the Eternal directory and store it somewhere safe, out of the ETERNAL path. If you don't have ETERNAL.ZIP still, you should create it with PKZIP ETERNAL *.* from the ETERNAL directory. This is the minimum disk space that can be used and still re-install without re-downloading. 1) IF you have installed in the DOOM II or Final DOOM directory, or other directory containing non-Eternal files, first use the shell to delete all saves and demos (Highlight one and press DEL, choose All and confirm Y). Then use the list of files provided below to delete each from the directory. Remove the subdirectory DATA with RD. Delete all the files in DOOM2SV and use RD on it as well. Files in Eternal DIR ETERNAL.WAD All the Eternal resources and levels, after installation ETERNAL BAT Shell runner batch file (ESHELL BAT recreates it) ESHELL EXE Shell and Installation executable PATCHER EXE Utility executable RESOURCE DEF DOOM II resource definitions for Patcher CWSDPMI EXE DJGPP runtime DOS extender/DPMI manager NULL WAD Used to build wads SEPI3 BMP Blue sky bitmap STARS BMP Starry sky bitmap UDSKY BMP Ultimate DOOM sky bitmap WELCOME EXE Welcome to Eternal DOOM self-playing sound ETERNAL LEV List of level, author, and music names by map number PATCHKIL RES List of patches to delete from old ETERNAL.WAD CSWEEPER WAD Bonus wad (plays as 33 from the shell, Map01 from DOS) RANCY EXE CSWEEPER randomizer executable CREDITS WAD Bonus wad (plays as 34 from the shell, Map01 from DOS) ETERNAL TXT This is the one you're looking at now SHELL TXT Instructions for the shell SHELLKEY TXT Quick key reference for shell GENERAL TXT Some general help ED-MUSIC TXT The complete Eternal music playlist INSTALL TXT Detailed installation instructions RELEASE NOT Details on what is different from Eternal I ETERNAL INI Contains setup/configuration and shell status information. ETERNAL BAT Used to play Eternal through shell. DEFAULT.CFG Present if IWAD configuration used 2) If you have installed Eternal in its own directory, say \ETERNAL, then it can be removed with the command DELTREE \ETERNAL, unless your DOS is pre 6.0. Use caution - DELTREE can delete many more files than you wish if you are not very careful what you type. In particular DO NOT put a space between the \ and the directory name, ETERNAL!!! This would delete ALL files on the drive. 3) Without DOS 6.0+, or if we just scared you off DELTREE , we recommend File Manager in Windows to delete the \ETERNAL dir. 4) Without DOS 6.0+ or Windows, use the shell to delete all saves and demos, and perform manual deletion of the files in DOOM2SV. Then RD DATA, RD SAVES, RD DOOM2SV, and manually delete all files from the ETERNAL dir with DEL *.* from it. Then change to its parent directory (CD ..) and RD ETERNAL to complete removal of all Eternal files.