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Doom8088: Doom for 16-bit DOS computers (286 msdos game doom ibmpc 8088) (github.com | ia)

11 points by viler 579 days ago | 14 comments

Borg 579 days ago
Ugh, thats crazy stuff.. I remember playing DOOM on my 386DX40 and peformance was not good. I had to reduce screen size and do double pixels. 486SX25 peformed much better, especially when I overclocked it to 33MHz.
- anthk 577 days ago
  https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom
  An optimized Doom for the 386.
  - Borg 576 days ago
    Nice. I still play good old DOOM, using source port.
- anthk 577 days ago
  There's a better Doom hack for 386 without sacrificing too much quality.
  - Frenkel 575 days ago
    There's a 32-bit build of Doom8088. It's twice as fast as the 16-bit build.
- bmonkey325 578 days ago
  Amazing hack. Definitely in the amazing it even works category.
dfarquhar 578 days ago
VGA or MCGA only, so I won't be loading this up on my Tandy 1000 next to the 8088 version of Wolf3D.
- Frenkel 577 days ago
  I've made a quick hack that should work on a Tandy 1000 and it looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RdrLXblnlU With CGA graphics it looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUEcr7XnbuA And in monochrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o3rYTZt6BM
  Seriously, proper Tandy / CGA / EGA / Monochrome graphics is on the to-do list.
anthk 577 days ago
It the walls had plain colors, could the game still be playable? It might save some cycles to boost up the resolution a little...
- Frenkel 576 days ago
  https://youtu.be/KEhIwLZ06dc
  - anthk 576 days ago
    Nice, but the FPS amount doesn't seem to change. On IWADS, did you try the FreeDOOM ones? Here you cat get (via gopher sorry) a daily build I made for FreeDOOM and Blasphemer (Free replacement for Heretic) in a zip file:
    gopher://texto-plano.xyz/9/~anthk/doom/wads.zip
    freedoom1.wad and freedoom2.wad are the Doom and Doom II IWAD replacements, freedm.wad it's for multiplayer matches.
    - Frenkel 575 days ago
      With texture mapped walls I get 7 frames per second in 86box, with mono color walls I get 10 frames per second.
      - anthk 569 days ago
        Oh, cool. I guess some items such as buttons could be redesigned as a single or double rectangle with single pixels and keeping the walls as simple colours as before.
bmonkey325 579 days ago
Demo game play.
https://youtu.be/DQr-xqS3n4c?si=KsQf3pvniKaszPy