ToastyFrags jDoom Server

If you found this page from my jDoom server you probably want the current WAD(s) I am running or other files you need to connect. Get them here:

Skullday.zip (1.4 megs) Skullday.wad Readme Screen Shots
UDM3.zip (another wad I might run)
Doomsday 1.9.0 Beta 3 (Win32)

I also highly recommend the use of the jDoom Resource Pack - this replaces all sprites with excellent 3d models.

If you are having problems connecting to the server:

• Make sure you are running Doomsday 1.9.0 beta 3. 1.8.x and 1.9.0 beta 4 appear to work also, but I have not tested those as much. Personally I find beta 3 more stable, especially as a server. Beta 4 was released in the middle of a network protocol change and is not fully network compatible with other versions or even itself (You may get "unknown delta" error messages). 1.9.0 Beta 5, if it is ever released, will only work with Beta 5 servers.

• Make sure you are using the WAD file from Doom 2 release 1.9. This should be 14,604,584 bytes long and have a file date of February 1, 1995. If you have an older version you can apply the 1.9 updates 1.666 to 1.7a Update

and the 1.7a to 1.9 Update
 
• If the server is running Heretic make sure you are running with the Heretic.wad file from Heretic version 1.3. The update can be downloaded from the internet.

• Make sure you are running the same add-on WADs (if any) as the server and that they are of the same version. I may change these from time to time.

• Because of the way jDoom's networking works you must have port 13209 open for outgoing AND incoming TCP and UDP traffic. If you are using a NAT firewall you must tell it to forward the port to your computer's IP address (if your computer is using DHPC you may need to occasionally double check that your IP and the forwarding setting matches)

• At this time the Macintosh version of jDoom fails to recognize the level's gravity settings so you wind up floating. It also crashes when loading SkullDay.

• If you click "connect" and jDoom appears to freeze, just wait a minute. It's busy trying to connect and won't let you do anything else until it times out. Either the server you tried is down or someone forgot to configure their firewall.

 
• Some other weird/bad thing happened! Well, that happens, jDoom is currently kind of buggy.

So how did I get this server to work? Compared to other ports of doom, jDoom is a PITA, mainly because it's networking is so buggy.

Open the appropriate network ports on your firewall. Alternatively you can place your computer in a "DMZ" but I do not recommend this.

jDoom 1.8 and later all have a bug that typically prevents more than two users from connecting (one on a dedicated server!) This slight modification of the doomsday 1.9b3 executable lets more than two users connect. I recommend that this executable only be used on servers.

ddayb3sv.zip (441 k)

If you want to connect to your dedicated server on your local area network from another instance of jDoom, do not connect via the DoomsdayHQ screen (this uses your public internet IP address), rather use a "custom search" and specify the local IP address of your server.

Also for Mac users, here is modified version of the Mac version of doomsday 1.9 beta 3 that can actually connect to a network game as well as host, and dosn't crash on skullday.wad either. Like the origional it is PPC a binary.

doomsday19b3plus.zip (7.5 megs)

Of course, if you don't want to mess with all of this and want to have WAAAAYYY more fun, just get Skulltag, it doesn't have the OpenGl rendering but it "just works" with no messy network configuration.

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