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Get the latest Beta release of ZDoom, I think that right now it's v1.23 beta 24.
Over Doom? The features are too many to list! It can run windowed, run in high resolutions, run with double x and y detail, tons of crosshair options (health color, designs, scale, grow on item pickup {like UT}), very customizable character coloring, net play, tons of bugfixes in the original Doom source.... um....
It uses the FMOD engine for sound so it can use midi (the mus are converted to mid to play), mod, s3m, xm, it, mp3 and FMOD is supposed to support ogg but I haven't tested that yet.
It can play any version of Doom (aside from the alphas), Heretic, and Hexen support is just getting started.
Its fast as hell. I run it windowed at 720 by 480 (DVD resolution) with double x and y detail and it never drops below the max framerate. It's integrated so well with Windows that I keep it Windowed so I can Doom and be on ICQ at the same time. Just hit escape or bring down the console and the mouse cursor is freed.
Its also easy as hell to set up. Put it in your Doom folder and double click ZDoom.exe... you configure it entirely with the ingame menus. There are launchers available and they make it easier to launch ZDoom as Ultimate Doom or Heretic.
It also has some spiffy features such as mirrors, slopes, basic polyobjects (like Hexen), skyboxes... the list goes on and on. Plus, ZDoom uses an extended form of the acc scripting in Hexen so some ZDoom levels are REALLY cool, there's one that takes place on a runaway train... in even has a time limit in one part. Doom 3057 is another really cool looking level that makes good use of scripting, with tons of interactive lighting and particle effects.
Without doubt ZDoom is my favorite port, and even better, there's a GL port of ZDoom. If you want to put your video card to use give ZDoomGL a try... it has everything ZDoom does plus more.
So yeah, ZDoom is the best thing since... well... Boom, actually. The cool thing is that ZDoom also has support for Boom levels!
IMHO there is only one thing that ZDoom is missing... support for ddf files. If it had that... then... ZDoom would be perfect. I'm not greedy so I'm not going to ask for it, I don't want to jinx Randy.
Get ZDoom and enjoy it!
BTW, I do have Legacy and MBF and all those others too, they all have their merits. I just use ZDoom much more often than the others.
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