
DoomArena 2.0 is a waiting room for Sun DOOM games.  It only works on Sun
machines running Solaris 2.4 or better.  People everywhere on the net
can run doomarena and then start doom games with other people waiting
to play.  It is a great tool to help you waste more time playing doom.
This is good, because playing doom is very therapeutic and will make
the time you do spend working much more productive.

DoomArena makes it really easy to start networked DOOM games with
other people.  Here are some of the advantages DoomArena has over
regular Sun DOOM:

    o  Easy startup of networked games
    o  Full Mouse support (not part of standard Sun DOOM)
    o  Easy and reliable configuration of game options
    o  Frag matrix with realtime updates
       (e.g., who has killed who, and how many times)
    o  .doomrc configuration panel
    o  Audio controls
    o  Map preview


Where is it?

ftp.activesw.com     /pub/doom/DoomArena-2.0.tar.gz
ftp.cdrom.com        /pub/idgames/utils/unix/DoomArena-2.0.tar.gz
playground.sun.com   /pub/doom/DoomArena-2.0.tar.gz

The ftp.cdrom.com location should have DoomArena in the near future.


Changes since 1.0
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Features
	Map preview
	Game duration clock (corner of frag matrix)
	Switch to different server
	Random wad picker
	MOTD
	Wad info window (for dethtag type wads)

Enhancements
	Color icon
	Pinable wad menu
	Pretty help
	Searchable help
	Printable help
	Boss key: Stop

Bugs fixed
	mangled client/server communication on slow nets
	speed key status not set when game starts
	and a bunch of other stuff we didn't keep track of ...


New location
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The authors have left Sun to join Active Software.
	Doug Stein		dstein@activesw.com
	Steve Jankowski		steve@activesw.com

The old doomarena and doomarena-bugs mailing lists should continue
to work for awhile, but they will point to the new addresses:

	doomarena@activesw.com
	(echo subscribe | mail doomarena-request@activesw.com)

	doomarena-bugs@activesw.com
	(write-only alias to reach the authors)

Known bugs
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Usernames with spaces don't work
Speed key (NumLock) isn't reset properly when loading a game

