Yadex is a Doom level (wad) editor for Unix systems running X, including Linux. It supports Doom, Doom II, Ultimate Doom, Final Doom, Heretic, Doom press release pre beta and also, in a more or less limited way, Hexen, Strife and Doom alpha. Furthermore it supports the ZDoom Doom/Hexen hybrid engine. It is available under the terms of the GPL.

You need:

• Some flavour of Unix (known to work with FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD)
• X11R6/Xorg and a display of at least 640x480,
• a Doom/Doom II/Heretic/Strife iwad (shareware/demo is OK),
• GNU make (BSD Make won't do),
• a standard C compiler (ISO 9899:1990),
• a standard C++ compiler which supports C++11,
• hypot() and nanosleep()
• the links web browser to build the FAQ

To install in /usr/local :

./configure
make
su -c 'make install'

To install somewhere else, for example in ~/yadex :

./configure --prefix ~/yadex
make
make install

To force the use of a particular C/C++ compiler :

./configure --cc egcc --cxx eg++
make
make install

Got problems getting Yadex to compile? See doc/faq.html. Got no problem? Read the FAQ anyway. See doc/faq.html.

Beware, the installation OVERWRITES the following files (assuming you're installing in /usr/local) :

/etc/yadex/1.7.1/yadex.cfg
/usr/local/bin/yadex
/usr/local/man/man6/yadex.6
/usr/local/share/games/yadex/1.7.1/doom.ygd
/usr/local/share/games/yadex/1.7.1/zdoom.ygd
/usr/local/share/games/yadex/1.7.1/doom02.ygd
/usr/local/share/games/yadex/1.7.1/doom04.ygd
/usr/local/share/games/yadex/1.7.1/doom05.ygd
/usr/local/share/games/yadex/1.7.1/doom2.ygd 
/usr/local/share/games/yadex/1.7.1/doompr.ygd
/usr/local/share/games/yadex/1.7.1/heretic.ygd
/usr/local/share/games/yadex/1.7.1/hexen.ygd
/usr/local/share/games/yadex/1.7.1/strife.ygd
/usr/local/share/games/yadex/1.7.1/strife10.ygd

Before you run Yadex, you need to tell it where to find your iwads. Assuming you have installed in /usr/local, open /etc/yadex/1.7.1/yadex.cfg with your favourite text editor and insert the appropriate values for the parameters "iwad1", "iwad2", etc. If you don't want Doom II to be the default iwad, also change the value of the "game" parameter.

You can now run Yadex by typing :

yadex

A "yadex:" prompt should show. At that prompt, type this :

e map01

or this :

e e1m1

Have fun !

There is a man page and quite a lot of documentation, most of it in HTML format. Start at :

doc/index.html

If you're upgrading from a previous version of Yadex, please read carefully CHANGES.

Yadex is work in progress. It still lacks important features like a better interface, cut-and-paste, undo/redo, support for Boom and many more. I know. They will come faster if you help. The source code is a horrible mess. I'm not proud of it. Be indulgent.

Yadex : Parts copyright Gregor Best 2010-2016, GNU GPL v2 Parts copyright Andrew Apted 2000-2001, GNU GPL v2 Parts copyright André Majorel 1997-2003, GNU GPL v2 Parts copyright Matthew W. Miller 2000, GNU GPL v2 Parts written by Raphaël Quinet, public domain Parts written by Brendon Wyber, public domain

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Atclib : The Yadex distribution includes a subset of Atclib.

Atclib is copyright André Majorel 1995-1999 and distributed under
the terms of version 2 of the GNU Library General Public License.

See doc/contact.html for addresses.

AYM 2003-12-28