[jebez]

EDuke32 & DOSbox have different images

I'm on PC Arch Linux KDE, I installed:
Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition from https://archive.org/...onCollectionUSA
https://aur.archlinu...ackages/eduke32 .

Originally (on DOSbox) the maximum definition of the game is 800x600.

The 2 images are different: the view & the HUB, as purist I'm chocked!

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[LeoD]

 jebez, on 30 July 2025 - 05:48 AM, said:

EDuke32 & DOSbox have different images [...] as purist I'm chocked!

EDuke32 probably never aimed at purists, and also gave up on maximum compatibility a while ago. Try Rednukem.

[Perro Seco]

You can change EDuke32's ugly HUD in the options to make it look like the original. I've never noticed the different view, maybe there's an option for that as well.

[Hendricks266]

Enter

r_usenewaspect 0

into the console.

[jebez]

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You can change EDuke32's ugly HUD in the options to make it look like the original.

Where? OPTIONS, DISPLAY SETUP, HUD SETUP ? There isn't...

r_usenewaspect 0

I'm french, I've azerty keyboard, I even not found how to write _ & . so how?

[jebez]

Finally on Arch Linux KDE I can choose qwerty, it works.

r_usenewaspect 0

is same as: OPTIONS, DISPLAY SETUP, ASPECT RATIO: STRETCHED.

With with option & FOV (default: 90) it's possible to change the view, but as far I tried without success (viewing the upper right red dot)...
I think it would be ASPECT RATIO: AUTO & FOV: 90.5 but no decimal number...

About Rednukem: it's now NBlood https://dukenukem.fa...m/wiki/Rednukem https://github.com/NBlood/NBlood https://aur.archlinu...ages/nblood-git , I'll try but why EDuke32 & NBlood? Isn't 1 port sufficient?

[Hendricks266]

You need to open the developer console, by default with the ~ key.

To shrink the HUD, you can also press the - key.

NBlood is separate because we currently do not want to mix reverse-engineered code like Blood and Redneck Rampage into officially licensed source code releases like Duke Nukem 3D that are then used in commercial products like Ion Fury.

[jebez]

My bad, there's also the same HUD on EDuke32 as DOSBox:

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[jebez]

My bad again, Nblood & Rednukem are 2 different things.

There's https://aur.archlinu...#comment-889334 but https://aur.archlinu...es/rednukem-git 404... Googling "rednukem linux" I not found...
But there's on Window$ https://github.com/N...NBlood/releases but I hate that "OS", i won't install it.

Will the next release of EDuke has the original view? Should I create the issue https://voidpoint.io...duke32/-/issues ?

[LeoD]

 jebez, on 30 July 2025 - 11:42 AM, said:

My bad again, Nblood & Rednukem are 2 different things.

There's https://aur.archlinu...#comment-889334 but https://aur.archlinu...es/rednukem-git 404... Googling "rednukem linux" I not found...
But there's on Window$ https://github.com/N...NBlood/releases but I hate that "OS", i won't install it.

Rednukem is built from the NBlood sources, just like Ion Fury lives within EDuke32. Installing NBlood for Arch Linux might actually give you a Rednukem executable, too.
[EDIT:] At least, that's what the plain "make" command does.

 jebez, on 30 July 2025 - 11:42 AM, said:

Will the next release of EDuke has the original view? Should I create the issue https://voidpoint.io...duke32/-/issues ?

No. As h266 pointed out, it appears that you can get your desired behaviour by altering the EDuke32 default configuration. So you are not encountering an actual bug, but a "new" renderer feature, "new aspect".

[Hendricks266]

If you can't figure out how to enter the line "r_usenewaspect 0" into the console, you could also write it into settings.cfg while the executable is not running.

[Phredreeke]

 jebez, on 30 July 2025 - 11:42 AM, said:

My bad again, Nblood & Rednukem are 2 different things.

There's https://aur.archlinu...#comment-889334 but https://aur.archlinu...es/rednukem-git 404... Googling "rednukem linux" I not found...
But there's on Window$ https://github.com/N...NBlood/releases but I hate that "OS", i won't install it.

Will the next release of EDuke has the original view? Should I create the issue https://voidpoint.io...duke32/-/issues ?

[jebez]

https://voidpoint.io/terminx/eduke32 : the tab title is "Richard Gobeille / EDuke32 · GitLab".
Is someone called Richard Gobeille here? To know if I'll write in https://voidpoint.io...t_page_size=100 .

Otherwise I'm not very purist, I'll play EDuke32, the original on DOSBox it's not possible to play with gamepad + mouse (I play FPS the gamepad at the left hand to move, the mouse the right hand to aim).