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Id avoid using winquake or dosbox these days, they both have limited resolution and framerates, and wont play the game's music (unless you have an original CD lying around). The Quake Starter Package is probably the easiest way to get the game setup these days, it comes with Quakespasm-spiked as a source port. And based on those pc specs you should have no issue running the game, even some graphics mods should probably work fine.

I tend to change it a lot, the Vanilla Essence mod lets you toggle GZdoom to low res and back with a single key press, along with a few other tweaks

https://zdoom.org/wiki/How_to_autoload_files This should help, basically you have to add a line into your gzdoom-username.ini file (where username is whatever the user on ur pc is called ofc).

First time i played doom was around 2013/14 on this flash port: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/470460 I remember that it had wasd for movement and ctrl for shoot, so when u tried to walk forwards and shoot at the same time it would close the browser window :)

One thing i wish i knew sooner is that GZdoombuilder has a 'make door' button that automatically sets textures and unpegs the side texture of a door, saves a lot of time compared to doing that all manually.

Not exactly the first level I've ever made, but it is the first one I finished, i think my first map was two tiny rooms stuck together :P I made this one around a year and a half ago, I think it looks nice visually but gameplay wise its too linear. Here's the link if anyone wants to play it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1izRPq9kGfcJOmUXQOAtwEkKI3AaScUge/view?usp=sharing It's for Doom 2 and works in GZdoom, probably Zdoom and similar engines too.