What is the most classic source port out there?

[BrannanZ]

On 4/22/2020 at 1:50 AM, Spie812 said:

True Doom fans only play on actual hardware

Well i have an old laptop from the late 90s

Edited April 23, 2020 by BrannanZ

[jerk-o]

I wonder if the original doom would run in FreeDOS

[Redneckerz]

59 minutes ago, jerk-o said:

I wonder if the original doom would run in FreeDOS

Why do you wonder? Its an a free MS-DOS replacement, that mimics pretty much everything that makes MS-DOS, MS-DOS.

 

Here FreeDOS is running the FreeDoom through VirtualBox on Linux:

 

 

And here is the Original Doom running under FreeDOS using the OpenGEM graphical shell:

 

 

[drfrag]

On 4/22/2020 at 11:38 PM, Martin Howe said:

Sadly not, it's been abandoned for ages

I see you were still using DirectDraw yet it works well on win10, i guess that's becouse you were querying just for 32 bit modes. ZDoom supported 8 bit modes too and may be that's why it didn't work. Not using SDL is a plus.

[BrannanZ]

god what was april me like? why was I using grammar lol, that's not like me

Edited August 18, 2022 by BrannanZ

[DoomGater]

On 4/22/2020 at 2:34 AM, TheStupidestBeing said:

It definetely is DOSBox, it's exactly as Doom was in 1993.

And then you could install WinfW3.11, with the 32bit extension and try to run legacy 1.32!! 

[wesleyjohnson]

Well ...

I would it first be original binary on FreeDos.

I have Doom collectors edition and Heretic, and can run them under FreeDos (before it got damaged).

Then second, original binary under DosBox.

But, Chocolate and Crispy are much more convienent.

 

OpenGem under FreeDos running something??  I could never get that to do anything by trivial things.

What kind of complex programs can it run now ?

Looks like I get to upgrade FreeDos when I repair it.

 

Thank you for the information.  I got a box of old Win stuff that needs somewhere to run, and the XP

many times cannot be convinced to run it properly.  I actually have to use DoxBox on the XP to run it at all, and that even is a bit of a struggle.

 

[BoxY]

As far as I know calling dosbox emulation of doom.exe identical to running it natively on DOS is a bit misleading, because of latency issues in the hardware emulation and other stuff that isn't present if you're running the game natively. In any case, choco is infinitely more convenient.