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Please have talking floating Tomes of Power with nice voices!

It's easy to have pipe dreams about Heretic/Hexen resurfacing if Microsoft buy AcTiVisionBlizzard and that somehow connects id to Raven via the organization chart. But how popular are those games to be worth investing resources on? Heretic struggles to be well liked here as it is, it's always Doom DooM DOOM here. I don't think Hexen was ever that loved, and Raven have a history of constantly being the second fiddle, their games being rather generic fantasy anyway. You could easily interchange Hexen with Warcraft nowadays, nobody would notice. And even now, the idtech1 Heretic/Hexen games are already available on web stores, not abandoned. I just don't know what to think...

I want to inform you that, until now, the uploads on the OP link were actually broken. I fixed it now; the new download link should work.

Well, what do we have analogue: - books: people still dote over them. Their upside is that they don't need battery. My problem with my tablet is that I'm easily distracted to browse, such as here, instead of reading my Kindle app books. - theatre: a distinct type of show, I doubt it will go anywhere, because directing people and stage designers seems easier than making lots of cuts and effects for a movie. I guess it's more expensive on the long term to keep paying the actors to act the same plays. Anyway, plays involve a lot more dialogue, so the focus is more on interactions than visual effects. - musical instruments (including analogue amplifiers): we can just use computers to generate audio, we can even use AI to compose music, but we still seem to be heavily invested on analogue instruments played by real musicians. - vinyl discs: they still have their characteristic sound tone, maybe also smell. Seems to be a strong enough feeling that they're still marketed. - analogue gauges (such as for measurement tools): if their choice over digital saves me from worrying about batteries needed just to power a dumb display, sign me up!

See my extra remark above; the grounded monsters do that (I only noticed that with Dehacked when I allowed monsters to travel over cliffs) but not the fliers, unless id added an extra check.

One example where the teleport bug seems useful is teleporting cacodemons and lost souls into a ceiling alcove, so they have to come down from there to attack you. This would be the only way to make ceiling alcoves more than a decorative detail in vanilla Doom... Still, the effect would be mostly psychological to the player, because gameplay is mostly 2D: monsters have infinite height against player, they'll also go down really fast to your height. Rocket explosions likewise have infinite height, same with the cacodemon "bite" attack range vertically. Walking monsters will instantly drop to floor, without visible falling motion, due to how they're programmed (unlike flying monsters). For the player I find the Doom gravity too strong to give any lasting impression if you teleport him or her above a pit.

The topic of blockchain disgusts me (especially when it takes over all the mainstream computing topics), but in the interest of not becoming an old fart, I really should plan some time to learn about it all.

I've no idea. Either macOS did random stuff behind, I added a safeguard in the code or you managed to better delete the old data this time. In any case, I hope you'll get better crash reports in the Console app after an Eternity sudden termination. Wait a second… is that Eternity macOS dialog box featured in Eviternity?!

I've updated the stickied thread to link to my own attempt at providing macOS devbuilds: