Linux Doom - Revision history

Corbin at 03:11, 28 October 2014

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{{InfoboxSourcePort
|title = Linux Doom
|developer = [[id Software]], [[Dave Taylor]]
|baseparent = [[Versions of Doom and Doom II|Final Doom v1.9]]
|released = 1.10 (1994)
|programming language = [[Wikipedia:C (Programming Language)|C]]
|status = Discontinued
|platform = Linux
|license = [[Doom Source License]] {{GPL||2+}}
}}'''Linux Doom''' is a [[source port]] of [[Versions of Doom and Doom II|Final Doom v1.9]] which was first ported by [[Dave Taylor]] in 1994. The source code of this port was initially released under the [[Doom Source License]], then later re-released under the {{GPL||2+}}. It has become the basis for many source ports due to its close nature to the original code.

== Summary ==
Due to being directly based on the original DOS source code, it had most of the original executable's bugs intact. Like [[Versions of Doom and Doom II|Final Doom v1.9]], it exhibited the [[Demo desyncing caused by bouncing lost souls]] bug which caused many demo compatibility issues in source ports based on it. The original [[DMX]] sound library code was stripped; instead, it features a sound server and a music server, which run as separate executables which receive data through inter-process communication. Thus, there is no actual sound code in the source, adding an extra level of portability as the multitudes of sound APIs are not exposed at all. It also only supports pseudo color X graphics (256 color) and refuses to run on any other color setting of the X Server.

Out of the total population of unofficial source ports, the largest number derive directly, in part or in whole, from the Linux Doom code base. Notable descendants which started their own port families include [[DOSDoom]] and [[ZDoom]]. In addition, this code base has served as the foundation for [[id Software]]'s official new-generation console ports.

[[Category:Commercial ports]]

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+}}{{DoomWiki}}'''Linux Doom''' is a [[source port]] of [[Versions of Doom and Doom II|Final Doom v1.9]] which was first ported by [[Dave Taylor]] in 1994. The source code of this port was initially released under the [[Doom Source License]], then later re-released under the {{GPL||2+}}. It has become the basis for many source ports due to its close nature to the original code.
 == Summary ==