Do95: Yet another Doom launcher

[SmileTheory]

From the "if I don't release this now it'll just sit on my hard drive forever" department.

So, this is yet another Doom launcher, styled to resemble (half of) the old Doom95 launch dialog.  It's written in pure tcl/tk, so it should run on any modern Windows machine, and probably Linux, though I haven't really tested there much.

 

It's designed to be config file free, automatically detecting Steam installs of Doom/Doom 2/Final Doom and using whatever source port it finds itself installed alongside.

 

v0.0.2-alpha release here

github here

Edited November 3, 2020 by SmileTheory
Move screenshot, update release

[Doomkid]

I love this launcher idea and it's something I've wanted for years, but I can't actually get it to work - tried putting it in my Zandronum, ZDaemon and Odamex directories and couldn't get a boot from any of them.

 

My main suggestions would be letting the user select the EXE they wish to use, perhaps using a dialog just like the "Game WAD file" one, but instead saying "Game EXE" or something similar. The ability to add multiple custom WADs would be excellent as well, it was Doom95's main shortcoming imo. Even though I couldn't get it to work I'm very intrigued by this, I always felt Doom95 was the simplest and most elegant of Doom launchers.

[fabian]

Executables are currently in a hard-coded list, but you could always rename your favorite port to "doom.exe" to make sure it's among the chosen:

 

https://github.com/SmileTheory/Do95/blob/8a916db3b2a57cb7d7acc1ed22c9b7a75c5c8772/do95.tcl#L301

 

[SmileTheory]

So here's a quick update, download here.

• Added zandronum, zdaemon, and odamex to the list of executables.  As well, if do95 doesn't find an appropriate executable, now it'll just ask with a file dialog.
• Changed the pwad file browser to allow multiple files to be selected.  Selecting from the combobox still only selects one, though.  This is mostly a workaround to avoid making a whole new widget.
• Fixed finding savegames for chocolate doom and crispy doom on linux.
• Probably a couple other small things, I forget.