
WL1, you have an early version this shouldn't cause a problem but it will require a different command to run later. WL6 to their own directory on your hard drive. Now find your Wolfenstein 3-D game files and copy all the files with the extension. I'm going to assume here that you've already installed Wolf4SDL via Ubuntu Software Center or Synaptic. I'm using Ubuntu to explain the process here because I haven't tried it with any other distributions your distribution may require different commands to accomplish some of these steps. Some people won't need to read any more than the above sentence to grasp the solution to all their problems, but if you need me to start from the ground up, just keep reading. The game files need to be in the directory /usr/share/games/wolf3d and the filenames need to be written in all lowercase characters. If you're using Windows, just scroll down this post until you see "FOR WINDOWS USERS" in bold capital letters. I'm going to talk about how to run Wolf4SDL under Linux first, because that's probably the version most people have had trouble with.

If you've stumbled across this post, you're probably looking for help with the same problem I once had: You want to play your copy of Wolfenstein 3-D and/or Spear of Destiny using the source port Wolf4SDL instead of the somewhat unreliable emulation of DOSBox, but you've found that the Wolf4SDL developer's website seems to be down and the documentation telling you how to actually get your game running seems to be nonexistent.

LZWolf is the best source port to use right now. I'm not even going to allow any further comments or questions about it on this post.Īddendum the third (): ECWolf hasn't been under active development since 2016. Addendum (): Instead of bothering with trying to make Wolf4SDL work, I recommend just using ECWolf instead.Īddendum the second (): Seriously, don't even bother reading the rest of this post.
