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Archive Maintainer      : Julian Nechaevsky
Primary purpose         : Singleplayer, Coop and Deathmatch. No levels included
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Title                   : Russian DOOM
Filename                : Russian-doom.exe
Release date            : 09/16/2016
Author                  : Julian Nechaevsky
Email Address           : [redacted]
Other Files By Author   : ZFootBall, first global soccer mod for ZDoom,
						  released in 2004.
Misc. Author Info       : Previously known as Andrew SheparD.

Description             : My first translation attempt was in 2001. Back then
						  I was a teen with out much knowledge, and overall
						  quality of translation of original DOS executable
						  was not very good. But we with my colleague, Sergey
						  "Disctrich" Ivanov was the first who figured out
						  how to do this.

						  15 years have passed, a lot of experience gained,
						  both technical and informational, and only
						  one question appears: "What if I apply all my
						  current knowledge and redone that project from
						  long time gone youth from scratch?".
			             
						  Chocolate Doom as code base was chooses because of
						  it is one only modern source port with interpretation
						  of original DOS executable, that good old game.
			             
						  Simon Howard, author of Chocolate Doom kindly accepts
						  my request to work with his code, and two and a half
						  months of hard work with code, graphics, design, 
						  translation and information searching was started.
			             
						  As result - all ingame content was fully translated,
						  and I think I have done it well. :)

Additional Credits to   : • Simon Howard for creating amazing source-port and 
					      letting me work it's code. Simon, thank you very much! 
						  You are true Hacker and Master of Code!
						  • Manul12 for creating most interesting Russian text 
						  translations. Many of them was used as a base for my
						  translations.
						  • Authors of Russian Wikipedia pages about DOOM.
						  • Sergey “Districh” Ivanov. My colleague in translation
						  affairs in our long time gone youth.
						  • My friends: Maxim "MaxLeon" Pyanov, Oleg Zik and
						  Oleg "Kai" Sudarikov, for overall moral support and
						  translation help.
						  
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* What is included *

New levels              : None
Sounds                  : No
Music                   : No
Graphics                : Yes, all original English ingame resources are 
						  fully translated and redrawn to Russian language,
						  in full accordance to originals.
Dehacked/BEX Patch      : No
Demos                   : No
Other files required    : Only IWAD(s) of DOOM Shareware, The Ultimate DOOM,
						  DOOM 2: Hell on Earth, Final Doom: TNT Evilution and
						  The Plutonia Experiment.
						  
						  Builded to run on Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10,
						  both 32-bit and 64-bit editions.


* Play Information *

Game                    : Only DOOM, DOOM2 and Final DOOM. Other games are 
						  not translated and not supported.
Map #                   : Any original maps, any vanilla-compatible maps.
Single Player           : Designed for
Cooperative 2-4 Player  : Designed for
Deathmatch 2-4 Player   : Designed for

Difficulty Settings     : Not implemented of course.


* Construction *

Base                    : Based on source-port Chocolate Doom 2.2.1, and 
						  distributed with permission of Simon Howard, who is 
						  author of original Chocolate Doom.
Build Time              : Two and a half months.
Editor(s) used          : Code::Blocks 16.01
						  Adobe Photoshop CC 2015
						  Slade
						  various translation and programming Web resources..
Known Bugs              : Some rare error messages of original Chocolate Doom
						  still are untranslated. Anyway, all original ingame
						  content is 100% translated.
May Not Run With        : Heretic, Hexen, Strife and Chex Quest.
Tested With             : All original DOOM version, including Doom2.wad from
						  BFG Edition.



* Copyright / Permissions *

Authors MAY use the contents of this file as a base for
modification or reuse.  Permissions have been obtained from original
authors for any of their resources modified or included in this file.

Please do not forget to include name of Chocolate Doom author 
(Simon Howard) and accept policy of GNU GPL v2, if you wish to 
work with source codes.

This is all I'm asking for. Thanks.


You MAY distribute this file, provided you include this text
file, with no modifications.  You may distribute this file in any
electronic format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include
this file intact.  I have received permission from the original
authors of any modified or included content in this file to allow
further distribution.


* Where to get the file that this text file describes *

The Usual: ftp://archives.gamers.org/pub/idgames/ and mirrors
Web sites: http://jnechaevsky.sf.net
		   Both binaries and source codes (and possible further
		   updated) can be found there.

