Favorite Source Port? (Multiple Choice Poll)

Probably because 'Zandarium', whatever that could be, doesn't exist.

He's obviously talking about Zanadorium Zandorum Zandronum.

The first source port I've ever played was zdoom 1.22. I now use Zandronum almost 100% of the time when playing Doom or custom wads for Doom/Doom2. Before I discovered Zandronum, I used skulltag.

I dislike Odamex, but I really like to play zdaemon online :)

Hey, up until now I've been using chocolate doom which is amazing. The one thing is that it doesn't let you use autorun-or something like using caps lock to switch between run/walk default (would have been great). My pinky is tired of staying on the fuking shift key.

I tried Zdaemon but the HUD is truly garbage.

Anyone know something like chocolate doom that is similar to the original game, but can let you do something like switch auto run? Thanks!

Pr-Boom+, maybe? I mean, it's Boom, so it adds some stuff in, but it plays pretty close to vanilla.

Chocolate Doom probably supports the vanilla hack that enables autorun. (setting joybspeed to 31 in the config) If not then surely there should be some other way to enable it.

babo said:

I tried Zdaemon but the HUD is truly garbage.

How so? To me it looks just like the vanilla one. (I assume you mean the status bar, which is the correct name for that thing where you see your ammo, health, etc)

There's an autorun option in the setup tool.

fraggle said:

There's an autorun option in the setup tool.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/8pyCAPd.png[/ig]

Thanks, but the problem is then, you cannot walk at all. You'd think using shift would switch you to walking, but with that option you can't stop running!

Memfis said:

Chocolate Doom probably supports the vanilla hack that enables autorun. (setting joybspeed to 31 in the config) If not then surely there should be some other way to enable it.

How so? To me it looks just like the vanilla one. (I assume you mean the status bar, which is the correct name for that thing where you see your ammo, health, etc)

I guess the status bar then, it's awful. First the face is completely gone (useful), the health and ammo statuses are shrunken and useless, and it doesn't even show the keys you have!

Shadow Hog said:

Pr-Boom+, maybe? I mean, it's Boom, so it adds some stuff in, but it plays pretty close to vanilla.

ok I tried that and it's pretty good, thanks. One thing, maybe I'm being anal, but the music is different for some reason. It's the same songs but "remastered" or something, but I guess i will use this port for now.

thanks for the responses everyone

The only source ports I use are Zdaemon, Zandronum, Zdoom and Skulltag with IDE to make it easier to use. Zdoom supports the auto run too.

babo said:

I guess the status bar then, it's awful. First the face is completely gone (useful), the health and ammo statuses are shrunken and useless, and it doesn't even show the keys you have!

It sounds like you're seeing the fullscreen HUD. Shrink the screen size by one notch, and the traditional status bar will return, face and all. You can even force the engine to scale it up, so it's not tiny. That's personally how I use ZDoom; gotta have that big gray hunk of concrete down there.

babo said:

ok I tried that and it's pretty good, thanks. One thing, maybe I'm being anal, but the music is different for some reason. It's the same songs but "remastered" or something, but I guess i will use this port for now.

Nope, it's not remasterd. It's merely played back using an advanced MIDI renderer called fluidsynth.

To get the old experience, set "Prefered Midi Player" to "OPL2" in the "Options->General" menu under "Sound & Music".

Whats your favorite source port?
I'd just like to now.

Hi, PrBoom is my favorite source port and ZDoom is my second.

Hello there! welcome to doomworld forums and my favourite sourceport is ZDoom, then prBoom.

My favorite source port is ZDoom.

CalmPerson said:

Hello Doomworld! I'm new!

[dad/teacher mode]Hello new, I thought you were CalmPerson.[/dad/teacher mode]
:P

For editing: GZDoom, ZDoom
For playing GZDoom, Risen3D, ZDoom

I plan to get into Risen3D editing at some point too, but that has been my plan for a long time and I still haven't gotten around to it.

I like other ports too, but the above take up over 90% of my editing and playing.

Hi new CalmPerson, it's zdoom for me. Hope you stay calm.

Crispy Doom is currently my favourite port. I also use GZDoom and PrBoom+ a lot, and less frequently Zandronum, ZDoom, Chocolate Doom, and some others.

Zandronum is my favorite because its sort of like Zdoom and skulltag combined.

PrBoom+ is my favourite port, and Crispy Doom my second favourite.

PrBoom-Plus is my pick.

GZDoom is my favorite, PrBoom+ is second

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But FFS don't bump them.

Grazza said:

But FFS don't bump them.

Man I was tempted on one of those.

Gez said:

bunch of links

What? Only 73 threads about this? No wonder he didn't find any with the search function. He's way too calm.

Oh, and...

PrBoom/PrBoom+ & ZDoom

Welcome.

Welcome to Doomworld, please read the FAQ before posting further.

PrBoom+ for eyecandy

Chocolate Doom for vanilla feel

Gez said:

Hello, this is quite a frequent topic, so I've compiled a few threads of relevance to your inquiry:

<3 <3 <3 :D

Generally eternity, because it seems the best balanced of them all. Other ports either go too far with their enhancements (affecting gameplay in the process), or offer too little. Or have unaddressed instabilities.