Dos source ports that are truly boom compatible? Most can't handle common boom wads.

[invictius]

Ancient aliens, sunlust, they all spit out errors (Sunlust map 1... warping to 2 works fine).  Was about to mess around with dos, but if most of the well-known boom compatible wads won't work, there's probably no point.

[esselfortium]

It's a moving standard. Most "Boom compatible" wads made in the last 15-20 years aren't really compatible with the old Boom EXE from the 90s, they're using "Boom compatible" to mean "works with the latest version of PrBoom+" (or DSDA-Doom more recently).

 

You can try Tartar, a modern DOS port that aims to run more of those wads.

[Doomy__Doom]

"Boom-compatible" de-facto means "compatible with prboom+". Almost every high-profile boom compat wad uses MBF sky transfers which were allowed by prboom in -cl9.

[fabian]

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Dos source ports that are truly boom compatible? Most can't handle common boom wads.

 

The latter is a symptom of the former. 

[invictius]

On 2/18/2023 at 1:39 AM, esselfortium said:

It's a moving standard. Most "Boom compatible" wads made in the last 15-20 years aren't really compatible with the old Boom EXE from the 90s, they're using "Boom compatible" to mean "works with the latest version of PrBoom+" (or DSDA-Doom more recently).

 

You can try Tartar, a modern DOS port that aims to run more of those wads.

 

Thanks, made my day.

[wesleyjohnson]

From the point of a source port, that is trying to be "Boom Compatible", I must firmly disagree with any "moving target" interpretation of "Boom Compatible".

For the purposes of source port compatibility, I take Boom compatible to mean being compatible with what the original Boom source code allowed.

I would also refer to as a reference, what PrBoom (but not PrBoom+) did to support Boom, because of the testing done upon it.

I exclude PrBoom+ and later revisions because there have been additions and changes to the code, and it is hardly ever clear exactly what source compatibility

a particular piece of code intends to support.

 

I would apply this also to players who want to define "Boom Compatible", on the basis that I do not see any good reason for them to have a significantly different definition than the source ports use.