• Duke3DLinux

About

Actually Duke Nukem 3D is a classical DOS game. But some years ago 3DReamls published the game's source code under the GPL. Some projects started to play around with it and released their improved versions of Duke. This turotial describes how to build and install JFDuke3D under Debian GNU/Linux. I'm sure for all other Linux distribution it's the same procedure - so let's start.

Quick and dirty

1. Get JFBuild source code 20051009

2. Extract it to $DIRECTORY

3. Change JFBuild's directory name to build

4. Get the sound patch

5. Copy the patch to build and change to this directory

6. Apply the patch:

   patch -p1 < jfbuild_src_20051009.patch

7. Get FMOD 3.75 Programmers API

8. Extract FMOD

9. Change to the FMOD directory and after that to api

10. Copy libfmod-3.75.so to /usr/local/lib

11. Create a symlink:

    ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfmod-3.75.so /usr/local/lib/libfmod.so

12. Copy all the contents from FMOD's inc directory to /usr/local/include

13. Maybe you need some libraries to build it:

    apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev nasm

14. Change back to the JFBuild directory and build it with make
15. Continue if this results in success

16. Get JFDuke3D source code 20051009

17. Extract it to $DIRECTORY

18. Get the other part of the sound patch

19. Copy the patch to the JFDuke3D directory and change to it

20. Apply it:

    patch -p1 < jfduke3d_src_20051009.patch

21. Build it with make

22. If this results in success you need to copy duke3d.grp from a real Duke Nukem installation to your JFDuke3D directory:

    1. Either you have an original CD or you can use a shareware version from here

    2. You need to install DosBox:

       apt-get install dosbox

    3. Start dosbox and install Duke
    4. After the installation you can shut down dosbox

    5. Change to the Duke installation directory from dosbox and copy DUKE3D.GRP to the JFDuke3D directory - the file name have to be lowercase: duke3d.grp

23. Change to the JFDuke3D directory and start the game:

    ./duke3d

24. Your hear sound but no music?

    apt-get install timidity freepats

Want to know what you are doing?

There are several versions of Duke3D for Linux. I didn't had success to build the one from icculus so I tried JFDuke3D.

You need JonoF's Build Engine Port or JFBuild to compile the game. To compile JFBuild you need FMOD 3.75 Programmers API that doesn't come as a Debian package.

Because there are some troubles with sound output on Linux you need to patch JFDuke3D and JFBuild. After all this steps and installation of some dev-packages from Debian you can start to build JFDuke3D.

Finally you need to copy the data file from a real Duke3D installation to you JFDuke3D directory. That's it.

Links

• A similar tutorial

• High Resolution Pack with better graphics

  • there is also a Debian package containing JFDuke3D - but it didn't worked for me