A bit of a noobish question

[Untamed64]

I apologize in advance for wasting your time with this..

Whats the difference between ZDoom and Boom?

What does Boom have that ZDoom doesnt?

Thanks

[Vermil]

Boom was one of the very first source ports and the first to become a standard for mod making.

Because it became a standard, like Dehacked, modern and still active ports such as ZDoom, implement support for its features alongside their own now days, far more advanced modding features.

Hopefully the above is understandable; I decided to try to summarize, hopefully successfully.

[Kappes Buur]

Something to read:

BOOM: http://www.teamtnt.com/boompubl/faq.htm#Whatis
ZDoom: http://zdoom.org/About

[soner du]

I've done a small image to summarise relationships between major source ports, and BOOM compatibility.

[Quasar]

There have been more complete genealogies than that one, but that is by far the best *looking* one I've yet seen. GhostlyDeath's has every port ever known to man but, as a result, it's almost unreadable with curvy lines going all over it and overlapping with each other to the point there being no way to distinguish the one you are following.

[Tristan]

Quasar said:

GhostlyDeath's has every port ever known to man but, as a result, it's almost unreadable with curvy lines going all over it and overlapping with each other to the point there being no way to distinguish the one you are following.

Where could I find this genealogy? I've always wondered how complex it would be.

[boris]

I guess he means this one: http://files.drdteam.org/index.php/files/get/keiMSmNvY8/doom-engine-genealogy.png

[wesleyjohnson]

DoomLegacy plays Heretic too.

[hawkwind]

The graphic implies that Risen3D is only partially Boom compatible. Risen3D is fully Boom compatible ( with the exception of multiplayer support ). Also Risen3D does not use Direct3D. It's now OpenGL only for graphics.

[soner du]

I took most of my information from http://doomwiki.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Doom_source_ports

I'll correct the file someday... (I was just toying with xmind.net]xmind)

wesleyjohnson said:

DoomLegacy plays Heretic too.

AFAIK, it does not include Heretic code. (?)

[wesleyjohnson]

Does DoomLegacy contain Heretic code ??? A can of worms ...
It contains switch stmts and some code that could have. Did other ports copy heretic functions outright ??