Play DooM (Ultimate, 2, Final) on Vista/Server 2008
Have you recently had the urge to play the original DooM on Windows Vista? I bet you have, and if you’ve tried I bet you got a plethora of incompatability messages. The reason is the original DooM executables were coded for MS-DOS and as such simply won’t run. The solution is to use a port. I hadn’t used a port in a few years (Legacy was my preference back then) so had to do a bit of research to see which one was still being actively updated. ZDoom it is then.
I like ZDoom because it has a lot of advanced features like a crosshair, mouselook and wheel support, 16:9 resolutions and heaps more. Too many to list, in fact. Check out their website here to learn more and download it. Note you need the original or shareware WAD files.
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omfg, zdoom. man, i used zdoom way back, was friggin awesome. used it on an old dx66 [D][I][G][I][T][A][L] laptop, with trackball mouse, over null modem cable on serial port with my mates!!
(speaking of serial cables, i remember loading internet explorer 5 i think it was with hyperterminal onto the laptop to be able to use a plugin for geoshell!!, damn that took forever)
Serial’s not all bad though, some cool things can be done like flashing Motorola cable modem firmware.. true the speed is unacceptable though.. *memories to a 36.6k dial up modem running through serial*
We’re lucky with zdoom and still being able to play these classics (thank you id for releasing the source), but there are some which I can’t get working like Carmageddon 2