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Does anyone here have a favorite frontend for launching DOOM? ZDL (which I've never used and which targets Windows) is the most famous. I've also heard of DOOM Launcher. Personally, I've never tried any of them.
Anyway, if no-one in the community likes any of the existing ones, then I might write one myself.
Wouldn't say it's my favourite per-se, given how little I've used any others, but I found it perfectly adequate. I forget what lead me to it specifically, but one factor was certainly that it doesn't do anything to make the graphics look better. I wanted the original blocky graphics that now look terrible full screen. I played in a 640x480 window, I think. Or maybe it was 800x600.
Zandronum port via Doomseeker ,also the servers are pretty populated and the launcher also support Heretic and Hexen, you can also find vanilla games there, w/o mods.
Code:
http://wiki.zandronum.com/Doomseeker
Last edited by Reeb xoxo; 08-17-2016 at 05:31 AM.
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Zandronum port via Doomseeker ,also the servers are pretty populated and the launcher also support Heretic and Hexen, you can also find vanilla games there, w/o mods.
Code:
http://wiki.zandronum.com/Doomseeker
Yes! That's the kind of stuff I'm asking about.
Anyway, I'll be starting the project soon (probably next week). The first thing I'll be testing for is whether the GUI toolkit causes any issues with the Steam Overlay. Then it's going to be a several drop targets that you can drag WADs, DEHs, BEXs and LMPs onto from a file manager.
I like chocolate doom as well. Recommended if you're into the vanilla experience. If you have a higher res monitor, it won't support scaling beyond 3x or so though. I've hacked on that a bit. Very easy to add higher multipliers to that.
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