Doomsday Gets DOOM, Heretic, Hexen Engines Upgrade

Ant writes "I just noticed Doomsday HQ, source of some of the best enhancements of original DOOM, Heretic, and Hexen game engines since the code was open-sourced, has released v1.8.0 of both the Linux and Windows ports. SkyJake, the author, also mentions on the news page that a Mac OS X version might be ported in the future." As the official beginner's guide notes, you'll need "a copy of the original shareware/registered [game .WAD]" to play.

Comments

Great fun :-D

[DrFaustos25]

This is such an awesome source port of doom, but the documentation for the Linux version leaves a *lot* to be desired. I still have no idea where to place my updated textures, music files and models to get them into my game under Linux. :-(

By default it looks like regular doom, but if you get the texture pack (big zip file at the bottom of the page,) model pack (direct link to a 9 meg .exe, user is jfiles and password blank) and the updated music it looks and sounds nearly as good as quake 3. :-D (no, seriously :-D ) Make sure to turn on all the rocket trail and mouse look stuff, most of it is disabled by default. :-D

Hrm... opengl doom at 1280 * 960... hrm... :-D

You can still get the demo .wads from id's ftp I think...