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== Installing Freedoom
Freedoom is distributed as two files named `freedoom1.wad` and `freedoom2.wad`
which contain the artwork, levels, music and sound effects that make up the game.
To be played it needs to be paired with a source port. Fans of the original Doom
games have created a number of these; the Doom Wiki’s
https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Source_port[source ports page] has a comprehensive
list. The following are some good default suggestions:
Freedoom is distributed as two files named `freedoom1.wad` and
`freedoom2.wad` which contain the artwork, levels, music and sound
effects that make up the game. To be played it needs to be paired
with a source port. Fans of the original Doom games have created a
number of these; the Doom Wiki’s
https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Source_port[source ports page] has a
comprehensive list. The following are some good default suggestions:
* https://zdoom.org[GZDoom] is a modern source port that includes various
features such as a hardware renderer.
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easier for you to target. It also encourages monster in-fighting; if done
effectively, they’ll spend their energy killing each other and you’ll save
on ammunition.
* If you encounter a horde of flesh worms or stealth worms, The angle grinder is a
great weapon to use both to conserve ammo and avoid taking damage.
Worms can't attack while being sawed, and if you back
into any corner that is roughly as wide as or narrower than a right angle,
they can only come at you
one at a time. The angle grinder also works well on trilobites: they can't attack
while taking damage from it.
* If you encounter a horde of flesh worms or stealth worms, The angle
grinder is a great weapon to use both to conserve ammo and avoid
taking damage. Worms can’t attack while being sawed, and if you
back into any corner that is roughly as wide as or narrower than a
right angle, they can only come at you one at a time. The angle
grinder also works well on trilobites: they can’t attack while
taking damage from it.
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@ -665,16 +666,16 @@ number of cheats that you can turn to:
== Contributing to Freedoom ==
Freedoom is a
Freedoom is a
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html[free content]
project contributed to by many users around the world. It is available as
both free in cost (free as in free beer) and in modification and
project contributed to by many users around the world. It is available as
both free in cost (free as in free beer) and in modification and
redistribution rights (free as in free speech) to end users,
provided that the original software license is included and/or
provided that the original software license is included and/or
viewable by users of modified or redistributed versions.
If you'd like to contribute to the Freedoom project, please check out the
https://github.com/freedoom/freedoom[project's page],
If you’d like to contribute to the Freedoom project, please check out the
https://github.com/freedoom/freedoom[project’s page],
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/17-freedoom/[discussion forum],
and https://discord.gg/9DA3fut[discord chat].
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== Reusing portions of Freedoom ==
Since https://freedoom.github.io/about.html[Freedoom is free], some other
projects have used Freedoom's assets. We think this is a great use of the
projects have used Freedoom’s assets. We think this is a great use of the
project and should be encouraged. If you use portions of Freedoom in your
project, please let us know by filing an issue or pull request on
https://github.com/freedoom/freedoom.github.io[Freedoom's website project page]
https://github.com/freedoom/freedoom.github.io[Freedoom’s website project page]