What is a WAD File?
What kinds of WAD file are there? Last Change: 22/07/96 (Thanks to Tom Neff (tneff@panix.com) for muchos corrections to my initial innacurate witterings 🙂 Note 1: for Shareware Doom players: add-on levels cannot be used with Shareware Doom. See below for more information. Note 2: for answers to further questions on WAD files, please post to: rec.games.computer.doom.help For more technical answers, post to: rec.games.computer.doom.editing Q: What is a WAD file? What do they contain? The file that comes with the game, namely DOOM.WAD, or DOOM1.WAD, or whatever (it’s the big one) contains all the information that the game needs to know about the layout of the various levels, the graphics used, objects, creatures, sounds, music and so on. This file, or a modified version of it, is called an IWAD file – it is the main data file which Doom loads. Now that Doom level editors exist (such as Deu, DOOMED, DoomCAD, etc), people can design their own add-on levels. These are loaded ‘alongside’ the
