These are colored light data for hexen2. They require Hammer of Thyrion 1.4.0 which has support for colored lights and external lit files. Go into the directory that you installed hexen2: cd /home/YOUR_NAME/hexen2 or cd /usr/local/games/hexen2 Extract this package while you are still there: tar xvfz hexen2-lit_files.tgz The "eidolon" map especially seems to be problematic. Other than those, most maps seem OK. These .lit files generated by version 1.2.2 of the jsh2colour utility on linux. The program was compiled for pentium3 with sse math optimizations (-march=pentium3 -msse -mfpmath=sse).