DeuTex

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DeuTex
Developer(s) Mike Swanson (Chungy)
Nick Zatkovich (NickZ)
Initial release 1994 (30 years ago)
Latest release 5.2.2 (2020-12-30, 3 years ago)
Development status Active
Written in C
Target Platform Cross-platform
License GNU General Public License v2+
Source Repository

(Git)

GitHub

DeuTex is an editor able to compose and decompose WAD files. It was written in 1994 by Olivier Montanuy based upon DEU and originally ran in DOS. It was later ported to Unix (including GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X) and Microsoft Windows (with WinTex, initially a graphical front-end for Windows 3.1). André Majorel maintained DeuTex up until 2005. It is currently maintained by several contributors on GitHub.

DeuTex will convert the format of a lump when extracting or building a WAD. Supported formats are WAV, BMP, GIF, PNG, and PPM. It can also extract various content from the alpha and beta versions of Doom.

DeuSF[edit]

Up to version 4.4.902, it included a small version called DeuSF that featured primarily the IWAD merging feature to overcome limitations of the original Doom executables. DOS and OS/2 support have also since been removed and dropped.

Amiga version[edit]

In 1998, programmer Anders Bylund released an Amiga version of DeuSF, called ADeusf. It allows the user to merge PWAD data, such as floors and flats locally, instead of transferring the files to Amiga and doing the process on PC first. The latest version is 1.3b.

The following parameters are available in ADeusf:

Program can only be launched from CLI.

CLI:       ADeusf [commands] <IWAD> <In.WAD> <Out.WAD>

-add Copy data and add floor/sprites (default)
-fl  Adding only FLOORS     ( -floor can also be used )
-sp  Adding only SPRITES    ( -sprite    -:-          )
-c   Copy data only, ignore sprite/floor data
?    Helptext
-h   More help
help  -:-

IWAD    DOOM.WAD DOOM2.WAD PLUTONIA.WAD .. ..
In.WAD  Doom PWAD wad file.
Out.WAD The new wadfile created by this program.

Examples:

ADeusf doom BASILICA.WAD BASILICA_new.WAD
ADeusf -add DOOM.WAD RAM:TOONSF.WAD RAM:TOONSF.WAD_new.WAD
ADeusf -sp DOOM2 DH1:temp/RlmSprt.WAD RAM:RlmSprt_new.WAD
ADeusf doom dh1:temp/invasion.wad dh1:doom/invasion.wad

Prominent usage[edit]

DeuTex has been used to build some common IWADs:

See also[edit]

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