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Martin Howe said:

Screen resolution - Eternity does not offer me whatever resolutions my system can support, just a few "standards". No support for 1.25 aspect ratio -- like several would-be power users, I have one of those Kapok/Clevo monsters with a 1280x1024 panel. 640x400 works OK, but with black void above and below the display.

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sargebaldy said:
I don't see how 640x400 is "obsolete", i think the word you're looking for is "notgoodenoughforme". I'm perfectly happy with 640x400 Eternity is a purist's port, if you don't like low resolutions use another port or modify them in yourself.

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and resolutions such as 640x480 or 1024x768 stretch the screen for a very unnatural feel anyway, since the original resolution was 320x200, not 320x240.

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sargebaldy said:
yeah, prboom 2.3.0 does some really ugly stuff. i went right back to 2.2.4 quite fast.

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Quasar said:
I am keen on supporting more resolutions in Eternity, as I've mentioned before. But there are things which to me have higher priority right now -- ExtraData and Small scripting. Once those are done, I will look at prboom's rendering code, I promise.

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Martin Howe said:
When you exit setting an option, it exits all the way back to the game, instead of the main menu. This is unlike any other source port and is quite annoying when you are setting things upon first use.

It would be nice to have the BS key delete a setting for an item instead of returning the user to the menu.

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Quasar said:
The only thing I could foresee dethroning zdoom is if Heit takes it so far away from DOOM that people stop liking it.

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Anders said:
Please, don't look too close at the ugly "rounding" code it has.

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cycloid said:

but zdoom != doom any more!

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Graf Zahl said:
Why that? Last time I played an original level with ZDoom it still felt like Doom

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Quasar said:
I am keen on supporting more resolutions in Eternity, as I've mentioned before. But there are things which to me have higher priority right now -- ExtraData and Small scripting. Once those are done, I will look at prboom's rendering code, I promise.

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Mordeth said:


Actually, I do seem to notice some small differences in the way the player moves and weapon characteristics (bullet spreads..?). But I can't put my finger on what -exactly- this difference is... it just feels that way. But to say that ZDoom isn't Doom is a gross exaggeration ;)

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Graf Zahl said:
BTW, ZDoom's enemy AI is still closer to the original than PrBoom which utilizes several MBF enhancements.

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Mordeth said:
But I can't put my finger on what -exactly- this difference is... it just feels that way.

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Grazza said:
The fact that it can also emulate MBF can hardly be a negative point.

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Fredrik said:
The code might be ugly but the output is the sweetest visual enhanhcement to Doom since 640x400.

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sargebaldy said:
I'm going to have to strongly disagree there.

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Grazza said:

The way damage to enemies is calculated has changed a fair bit. This is most obvious if you compare how many point-blank BFG shots it takes to kill a spidermastermind in Zdoom to that in the original game (or most other ports). Archies blast you much higher into the air than in the original game. I also recall Adam Hegyi saying that the player movement and game physics are different, but I don't remember the specifics. It does also feel that way to me though.

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