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Originally Posted by MrFlibble
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A little note on this game. It turns out that not only the new v1.2 release can be played without
Doom II (via modern source ports like
Chocolate Doom or
ZDoom), but also the original v1.1 may run under DOS without
Doom II installed.
Alongside the standard distribution of registered
HacX v1.1, which comes in an installer that will refuse to install it without the DOS version 1.9 of
Doom II, there's a plain files package what was originally made for people who have a non-DOS release of
Doom II (Win95 or Mac). You can get it here:
http://gamers.org/pub/idgames/themes/hacx/hx11pack.zip
To play this version without the
Doom II installation, a configuration file is required, and also the main
IWAD file, which by default was supposed to be DOOM2.WAD.
HacX v1.1 uses certain files from the IWAD, including the palette. This is in fact a major difference between versions 1.1 and 1.2, with the latter not requiring additional external files to work. Because of this, the
HacX v1.2 IWAD can be used in lieu of the original DOOM2.WAD, it only needs to be renamed. Alternately, you can use the IWAD from
Freedoom, and I think the
Doom shareware episode IWAD will do fine too.
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As for the configuration file, you can use the SETUP.EXE programme from any other
Doom engine game (shareware/demo versions work fine), keeping in mind that the resulting CFG file must be renamed into DEFAULT.CFG for it to be recognized by
HacX.
* The game will actually accept any IWAD, including those from other shareware/demo versions of Doom engine games (Hexen, Strife etc.), with only a warning that the IWAD had been modified, but other games have different palettes and for that are not usable.