Doom operating system?

[Walter confetti]

Hello guys, i just chitchatting whit vins on PM about doom and he says me about a "Doom operating system v 1.1" in the dos prompt when he plays doom, but i don't remember it...

What is this?

[exl]

Early versions of Doom would show this at the very top when loading. I guess they thought Doom was complex enough to be an operating system or something. It was removed in later versions.

[Walter confetti]

ok, thanks!

[Death Egg]

Heh, I thought this topic was about starting a Doom-based OS, with built in source ports and such. I was confused as to how that would work...

[exl]

This comes closest to an actual Doom operating system: http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

[printz]

exl said:

Early versions of Doom would show this at the very top when loading. I guess they thought Doom was complex enough to be an operating system or something. It was removed in later versions.

It had more virtual memory management capabilities than retail Doom. It could load various processes (daemons) depending on what was being required. You could actually make real extensive plugins that changed how the Doom OS worked by loading them as additional daemons, either at start-up or by using the integrated command-line. Only later the daemon-modding feature was replaced by the more user-friendly, intuitive, but less powerful WAD system. Quitting the Doom OS would naturally reboot the system. Too bad it lacked the more user-intuitive point-and-click icons interface like in Windows...

[Quasar]

printz said:

It had more virtual memory management capabilities than retail Doom. It could load various processes (daemons) depending on what was being required. You could actually make real extensive plugins that changed how the Doom OS worked by loading them as additional daemons, either at start-up or by using the integrated command-line. Only later the daemon-modding feature was replaced by the more user-friendly, intuitive, but less powerful WAD system. Quitting the Doom OS would naturally reboot the system. Too bad it lacked the more user-intuitive point-and-click icons interface like in Windows...

>_>