Wanted- Doom version for win10 w/ updates

[MathWizard]

I remember being given a shareware copy of Doom on 3.5" floppy, but I can't remember if it was more than 1 disk.


Does anyone know of a Doom version, that runs in win10 w/widescreen ? Doom has been ported to so many things over the years.

I'd like 1 with native monitor texture scaling, and modern KB/mouse look/strafe. Or at least STRAFE.

Any old Doom fans here know a good modern port/clone of Doom for win10 ?

Sometime after Doom shareware, I had DukeNukem shareware. I wasn't for a couple of years till I the full version of DN3D. Still never played the DOOM besides shareware, besisdes a few minutes of D2 once at a friends house.

[T3sl4co1l]

The go-to mainstream port would be GZDoom (or a couple of relatives).  Plenty configurable, everything's on the menus or you can use the Quake-style console to get technical.  Supports software renderer, OpenGL (filtered textures, dynamic lighting, true perspective free look..), etc.

For a simpler ('more authentic'?) experience, consider PrBoom-plus, or maybe even Crispy Doom but it's not exactly high-def.

Binaries should be available for all major OSs.

Extract everything to a common folder (e.g. C:\DOOM) and it should Just Work(tm).  GZDoom may pop up a game select dialog, but it probably won't be able to find any other IWAD files, and it should detect DOOM1.WAD as Shareware.  The rest should auto-detect, or if you have multiple WADs in the folder, add the command line option "-iwad DOOM1.WAD" or whatever to specify.

DO copy that floppy!  Or two, it looks like it was?  Here's the shareware from the horse's mouth as it were:
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/idstuff/doom/doom19s

There's also a complete free IWAD, FreeDoom.  I think it's... mediocre, but it's certainly playable.  All the graphics and maps are different of course, but the same entity names are used so it's compatible with most mods.  An easy way in, to the thousands of PWADs out there, with basically just aesthetic differences compared to the intended experience.

As for Duke, that was...commercialized or something weird?  Nevermind, I see EDuke32 is, heh, not only still active but a new build was uploaded just a couple days ago, nice.  For the 2D versions, it seems there's ReDuke and Rigel Engine, which may be of varying fidelity (original source was never released for them), and require original files of course.

Tim

[Ed.Kloonk]

Last month I finally got around to playing final doom. I don't use windows, but I did compile lzdoom as the gzdoom code pushed back too much with game sound.

Ed.Kloonk goes turbo!