DOS Source ports for Heretic and Hexen?

[mnb]

With 640x480 resolution

Edited April 4, 2024 by mnb

[Adam Oker]

You can try out "HeXetic",it also supports high resolutions!

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20010615123823/http://www.angelfire.com/id/hexetic/images/Hxtic01.zip

[Master O]

  On 4/4/2024 at 11:20 PM, mnb said:

With 640x480 resolution

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Does https://crispy-doom.org/ fit?

 

https://github.com/fabiangreffrath/crispy-doom/releases

Edited April 5, 2024 by Master O

[Redneckerz]

  On 4/5/2024 at 1:19 PM, Master O said:

 

Does https://crispy-doom.org/ fit?

 

https://github.com/fabiangreffrath/crispy-doom/releases

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But Crispy isn't for DOS.

 

There was also HexenDOS.

[Adam Oker]

  On 4/5/2024 at 8:55 AM, Adam Oker said:

You can try out "HeXetic",it also supports high resolutions!

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20010615123823/http://www.angelfire.com/id/hexetic/images/Hxtic01.zip

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Actaully,i just realized that link was broken.

 

https://www.angelfire.com/id/hexetic/downloads.html

This should work!!

[plums]

I think old versions of Doom Legacy, while it was still being built for DOS, support Heretic.

 

There's also this version of ZDoom 1.17c that is supposedly for DOS, never tried it, maybe worth a look.

http://www.zdoom.org/files/zdoom/zdos117c.zip

 

 

[Master O]

  On 4/5/2024 at 3:49 PM, Redneckerz said:

But Crispy isn't for DOS.

 

There was also HexenDOS.

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Ah, so there were actual DOS source ports for Hexen.  Interesting.

[Redneckerz]

  On 4/5/2024 at 4:55 PM, Master O said:

 

Ah, so there were actual DOS source ports for Hexen.  Interesting.

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Yes, just not very many of them since Hexen, well, it already was DOS to begin with.

 

Hexen 2 was not though, but it got backported to DOS a few years ago.

[MrFlibble]

Bernewfie is a dedicated HeXen DOS port by @ludicrous_peridot.

 

I also believe that Vavoom should have support for both Heretic & HeXen, and it actually dropped the 320x200 resolution sometime along the development, so 640x480 is the lowest possible option IIRC. 

[mnb]

hexetic crashes at startup

hexendos doesn't have a download

ZDoom 1.17c crashes at startup

vavoom crashes at startup

 

bernewfie works fine and smooth as silk

 

[liPillON]

try these

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Heretic128

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Hexen128

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Strife128

 

 

 

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don't forget that your'se supposed to drop these executables into an already existing doom/heretic/hexen/strife installation

Edited April 8, 2024 by liPillON

[MrFlibble]

  On 4/5/2024 at 8:46 PM, mnb said:

hexetic crashes at startup

 

vavoom crashes at startup

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I suspect that both "crash at startup" with the following message, right?

That's because you need CWSDPMI (or another DPMI host).

 

If you want to play in DOSBox, I recommend using this patched version.

Edited April 11, 2024 by MrFlibble

[mnb]

  On 4/11/2024 at 12:15 PM, MrFlibble said:

I suspect that both "crash at startup" with the following message, right?

That's because you need CWSDPMI (or another DPMI host).

 

If you want to play in DOSBox, I recommend using this patched version.

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no, it gives this weird crap

 

 

[ETTiNGRiNDER]

Just a hunch, but try disabling joystick support in a config or setup or whatever?  I'm not sure though, I never tried the DOS version, but in my experience Vavoom was always kind of a buggy POS that would crash at random for unclear reasons.

[mnb]

  On 4/11/2024 at 11:30 PM, ETTiNGRiNDER said:

Just a hunch, but try disabling joystick support in a config or setup or whatever?  I'm not sure though, I never tried the DOS version, but in my experience Vavoom was always kind of a buggy POS that would crash at random for unclear reasons.

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i'll stick to bernewfie that works fine

[wesleyjohnson]

In the last year, DoomLegacy had some DOS support from one of the users.  We included patches from that user into the source code.  Do not know how far they got as they have not replied since.

These were mostly typos in the DOS port software that had accumulated due to changes in the port interface over the years.

 

The DOS port support is still in DoomLegacy, and may be gotten to work.  I would have tested it by now, but for time, and having lost my DOS partition when last upgrading this machine.

Over the years, all patches to the port software, have also been patched in the DOS port software too.   I just have not been able to run it to test for bugs.

 

Edited April 22, 2024 by wesleyjohnson