The D64 ZDoom Situation

[Stroggos]

Being a fan of the D64Ex project I was wondering what's going with ZDoom's branch of Doom 64? There hasn't been any builds, to my knowledge (and if there has where are they?), and it seems that the source hasn't been touched for a while (since 2010-09-18). So what's going on?

[Graf Zahl]

Nothing, obviously. That branch is purely experimental and it was stated from the beginning that there's no guarantee of it ever getting finished.

[Stroggos]

Did anything really come of it?

[Gez]

Doom 64 map previews in SLADE3.

[Blzut3]

Waiting for the 3D floors branch to get merged actually. Once that happens I'll be looking into emulating Doom 64's sky hack again. I'm still fairly certain there's no reason (G)ZDoom can't run Doom 64.

[Kaiser]

Blzut3: if there's any questions on how the sky works and how its rendered, just let me know.

[Koko Ricky]

I liked how the Doomsday attempt at emulating Doom 64 had some extra maps, that were pretty well designed. Zdoom 64 ought to as well.

[Gez]

Port != TC. What you speak about was an imitation of the original game, not actually running that original game. ZDoom will not feature extra maps since there's really no reason at all to include extra maps with the port. They'd be just wasted disk space for everybody who do not have Doom 64 and want to use ZDoom for playing other games.